While waiting for supplies we received a new commanding officer, Brevet Major-General E.A. Carr, who was the senior major of the regiment, and who ranked Colonel Royal.

And don't dare to tell me, next time, that you never heard of the scale of A flat major, my little scamp!" Kirk, to whom the Maestro's word was law, delivered his message very solemnly to Ken, who laughed.

As much as you earn yourself at that miserable bookkeeping!" "Sufferin' Moses!" ejaculated the astonished major, staring back into her twinkling eyes, "if this kapes on, we'll be millionaires, Patsy.

And so, linking his arm with the worthy major, he calmly wended his way to Baobab Villa, amid the ringing cheers of the populace.

We'll send you to Bath!'" "I think I can explain," remarked the wounded major.

He then jumped on the box, his follower got up behind, and away drove the coach, leaving the discomfited major and his fiery better-half in a state of the blankest bewilderment!

She had her whole état major.

Whereupon the red-faced major drew them still further to one side, and, lowering his heavy voice so as not to be overheard by others, went on to say: "I, as you know, know something about that wonderful big bomber he's had sent over, and how he means to give Berlin a scare shortly.

Yes, sir; we come under the double-cross kindness of a female major.

The post which we reached was under the command of a major, and Borthwick, who outranked him, ordered out a relieving party to go up the road and rescue the consuls, but the frightened major went up the road, out of sight, and waited there till we were gone, and then came back.

But the post-commandant was a grim and taciturn old major, who looked him through and through with a pair of icy gray eyes, and returned brief answers to his musical commonplaces.

To continue, however, my boy's youth and his destitutionfor his pockets were emptymoved the pity of a kind-hearted major, and he advanced him ten Napoleons from his own pocket without security of any kind.

" "But the Major was a very hostile major when I saw him last.

SIR: I have the honor respectfully to propose for your approbation the following-named captains[10] for promotion to the rank of major in the existing regiments of the Army, in conformity with the third section of the act approved February 11, 1847, which authorizes one additional major to each of the regiments of dragoons, artillery, infantry, and riflemen.

Behind him he heard an impatient whisperthe major's voice, quivering with eagerness: "Ask him if this place is really all gold!

Major Normabell, D.S.O." That was how I learned the name of the imperturbable major with whom I had smoked a pipe on the crest of Vimy Ridge.

I do know everything, and fail to see any trouble, so don't cry, little girl," briskly replied the inexplicable major.

That year was within three weeks of expiring when the infamous major, who was an Italian, goaded the unfortunate young man into open defiance of his sovereign's mandate.

The result was, that Vincent's squadron was handsomely entrapped, and in the savage contest that ensued the intrepid major was hustled from his horse with a dislocated shoulder and broken wrist.

"Merci, monsieur," she murmured, turning as she went out; but Helen was close behind her, and no one else to be seen except the massive major in the rear.

It is a book full of minor premisses, to which many opposite majors will be fitted.

Nicolini, as Hydaspes in this opera, thrown naked into an amphitheatre to be devoured by a lion, is so inspired with courage by the presence of his mistress among the spectators that (says Mr Sutherland Edwards in his 'History of the Opera') 'after appealing to the monster in a minor key, and telling him that he may tear his bosom, but cannot touch his heart, he attacks him in the relative major, and strangles him.']

At adjutant's call, the adjutant, dismounted and the sergeant major on his left, marches to the parade ground.

"Allons, messieurs!" said the tall major, who wanted us to see battlefields.

and she determined to be on the watch, for the unsuspicious major would be easily duped, and Helen trusted more to her own quick and keen eye than to his experience.