" "That aged crone thy daughter, daughter to thee so youthful and so fresh? "Even so," she said, "I bore her at sixteen, and slumbered for seventy years.

At the time I came to make her acquaintance she was a bedridden toothless crone, with chin and nose all but meeting.

" The ugly crone with blinks Doth hideous look, till every bidder shrinks.

Above a fire at the camp centre a kettle simmered on its pothook, being stirred at this moment by a brown and aged crone in frivolous-patterned calico, who wore gold hoops in her ears and bangles at her neck and bracelets of silver on her armsbejewelled, indeed, most unbecomingly for a person of her years.

They proffer of their fulsome food a share, And, 'Stay with us a while,' a false crone cries 'Unseemly is the strong who would the weak despise' He fain would pass, but leapt upon the ground, The proud, the fearless!

Upon crossing the vestibule with his little suit-case, the portress,a fat old crone with dusty, frizzled hair whom he had sometimes caught a glimpse of in the depths of her hall cavern,stopped his passage.

"You young men, at least, think every old, toothless gray-haired crone like me ready for the stake, you know.

Was not that striking from such a poor old ignorant crone? * *

Her feet were bare, and altogether she was a most repulsive old crone.

Andthis, I think, was what was chiefly in my thoughtswas Crone playing some game of his own and designing to use me as a puppet in it?

A striking and novel approach; though my belief in it was hindered by the discovery that these untutored crones not only spoke but wrote an admirable, if slightly mannered, prose, akin to that of STEVENSON or, say, Sir ARTHUR himself.

A withered old crone sat at one of the doors, sunning herself.

At the time I came to make her acquaintance she was a bedridden toothless crone, with chin and nose all but meeting.

As she asks in her lone, This old, desolate crone.

In the course of Lady Bornwell's intrigue with Kickshaw he is taken blindfold to the house of the procuress, Decoy, who, in the guise of a doting crone, leads him to a chamber where he imagines he is to meet a succubus, whilst the Lady, unknown to him, entertains him herself.