THE PHEASANT Surprise!The huntsman was looking for a little grey lark.

A meadow lark sprang up with a song in the adjoining field, a few heavy old bumblebees droned in the clover as we cut it, and once a frightened rabbit ran out, darting swiftly under the orchard fence.

" "Nno, I don't mind," answered Vance; "and it'll be an awful lark catching them with their heads under the clothes.

Had she glimpsed, when she so gaily left San Francisco last night, that this escapade was something more than a mere "lark"?

So the sweet lark, high poised in air, Shuts close his pinions to his breast, If chance his mate's shrill call he hear, And drops at once into her nest.

To the joyous lark

It will be a rare lark, an' somethin' to tell about in the days to come, that we took out from almost directly in front of St. Leger's headquarters six men, marchin' 'em into a fort which was supposed to be closely invested.

See how the tuneful lark is mounted high, And, poet-like, salutes the eastern sky!

What a stunning lark!

The living blue above throbs with the tremulous song of innumerable larks; the measured chant of cuckoos awakens the woods; and through the thickets a whole world's gladness sings itself forth from the throat of thrush and blackbird.

"And the larkah, the lovely lark!

[5002]Dum moliuntur, dum comuntur annus est: a [5003]gardener takes not so much delight and pains in his garden, a horseman to dress his horse, scour his armour, a mariner about his ship, a merchant his shop and shop-book, as they do about their faces, and all those other parts: such setting up with corks, straightening with whalebones; why is it, but as a day-net catcheth larks, to make young men stoop unto them?

So that they go on in their sin waiting for a new birth, &c. "So that they go on in their sin!"Who would not suppose it notorious that every Methodist meeting-house was a cage of Newgate larks making up their minds to die game?

I must confess that I enjoyed the occasional larks in which my classmates sometimes led and sometimes followed me, as well as any of them.

I loved the morn, and ere the lay Of plaintive meadow-lark began, 'Mid dewy shrubs I tore my way, Up the wild crag where waters ran.

It was his way of being facetious, she argued, this fine pretense that it was all to be a pleasant lark, or it may have been his idea of hospitality.

Sahwah made a fearful grimace, and recited sarcastically: "Not showers to larks more pleasing, Not sunshine to the bee, Not sleep to toil more easing, Than Latin prose to me!

He is not much larger than a plump lark, and he runs quickly along the beach, stooping now and again to pick up the morsels of food which his keen eye detects.

" "I wish," I. said, "you could get him to order me a dozen roasted larks instead of the mere smell of them.

I scarce could hear The shrill larks singing in the green meadows, 'Twas summertide, and, budding far and near, The hedges thick with rose.

Yonder a solitary lark is singing.

And the procession set off through the admiring village, amid the smiles of all the good women hastening to their doorsteps, and then spread out along the white road between the fertile fields, where bands of startled larks took wing, carrying their clear song to the heavens.

So Thumbkins crawled beneath Mamma Meadow-Lark's wings and, snuggling down close to the bottom of the meadow-lark's nest, he found three tiny little baby meadow-larks.

All the same," he added jubilantly, "what a tremendous lark it is, to be sure!"

Is she not busy as a bee, joyous as a lark, helpful, pitiful, unselfish, industrious, contented?