Unable to wield the sword, he seizes his poetical pen, resolved to become the Chronicler and Historian of the war, and thus add his little mite for the improvement of future generations.

A tiny mite of a baby, only a few weeks old was brought into the ward and laid in a cot not very far from Ida's bed.

Stella carried him inside, hugging the sturdy, blue-eyed mite close to her breast.

It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope, a single drop teeming with infusoria; or a speck of cheese full of mites invisible to the naked eye.

Seein' as Sister Angy is sech a leetle mite, though, I guess she kin easy make room fer me t' other side

Baby Elizabeth, a big-eyed, solemn-faced mite of humanity, had come up now and stood staring the stranger silently from the side of her mother's skirts.

Not that I merged myself entirely in Ernie, sickly, wayward, fitful, ugly little mite that he was undeniably.

The generous mite of penury is pity; Nay, ev'n a look.

So it was with Bambi, the high-handed, imperious little mite.

And now you're grown A little girl, and this same helpless mite Is come like such another bud half-grown, Out of the wintry night.

One day, the following letter, enclosing a dollar bill for the Association, was addressed to Isaac T. Hopper: "Should the humble mite here enclosed be the means of doing one-sixteenth part the good to any poor convict that the sixteenth of a dollar has done for me, which I received through your hands more than once, when I was destitute of money or friends, then I shall have my heart's desire.

So it was with Bambi, the high-handed, imperious little mite.

Markham knew little of business and hated it cordially, but he had heard enough of this affair to be sure that, whatever the courts had decided, Oliver Herrick had been unfairly dealt with and that a part, at least, of Peter Challoner's fortune belonged morally, at least, to the inconsiderable mite of femininity who read proof in a publisher's office in New York.

" "Oh, but you mustn't make him think there has been the leastest mite of complaint!

I seemed to stand outside, and see myself a mere mite, in a pink sun-bonnet and white bib, the very chief of sinners, for the probability was I had been thinking of that bonnet and bib.

Further along the beach a merry little mite began pelting me with sand; so I drew her too.

" The naked mite lay very still, the breath weakly fluttered.

" Surely a star, possibly Venus, must have danced gaily on a certain night in the year of grace 1683, when the wife of Captain Oldfield, gentleman by birth and Royal Guardsman by profession, brought into the busy, unfeeling world of London a pretty mite of a girl.

His childlike mentality made him always the same burden as when she had rocked him hour after hour, a scrawny mite of a baby on her breast.

Not that I merged myself entirely in Ernie, sickly, wayward, fitful, ugly little mite that he was undeniably.

Stella carried him inside, hugging the sturdy, blue-eyed mite close to her breast.

But he was brought up somewheres in the East, an' o' course he's a leetle mite less tough than Tom.

Not that I merged myself entirely in Ernie, sickly, wayward, fitful, ugly little mite that he was undeniably.

May they Receive their earnests to the uttermost mite! BUTLER.

Not that I merged myself entirely in Ernie, sickly, wayward, fitful, ugly little mite that he was undeniably.