The wording of the letter from which No. 29 has been copied tells no tale of weakness, but the gesture which clothes the words is tell-tale.

Mrs. Dare had met her son with tears of joy in her eyes, and Desmond had told the weird tale of his remarkable adventures.

And should not the latest bookif it be a tale of love, for these I am told are best offered to the public in the Spring (sad tales are best for winter)should not a tale of love be heralded through the city by the singing of a ballad, with a melting tenor in the part?

"And she was standing there all the time," said Connie, crying and telling her little tale after Mary had been carried away,"standing with her hand upon that cabinet, looking and looking, oh, as if she wanted to say something and couldn't.

All this have I heard and much beside, idle tales mayhap, yet would I seek out this errant Mars and prove him, for mine own behoof, with stroke of sword.

And when I had nursed her into health she told me a wondrous tale.

"If you want a romantic tale, persuade him to tell you how he got the mark on his head.

Southey certainly has no pretensions to vie with you in the sublime of poetry; but he tells a plain tale better than you.

Your betters had no share in the immediate cause of the war; we know what nation has that blot to wipe out; but for fifty years or so we heeded not the rumblings of the distant drum, I do not mean by lack of military preparations; and when war did come we told youth, who had to get us out of it, tall tales of what it really is and of the clover beds to which it leads.

Marvellously, and out of small means, the chisel had conveyed this impression; for the kneeling figure was mantled from head to foot, and had its face hidden in the folds of the drapery which skirted the bier,veiled, like the face of the tortured father in the old tragic tale.

they listened to Windy Jim, disbelieving the only unvarnished tale that gentleman had ever told.

For his authentic history, see the article in the Biographie Universelle by Ginguené; for the legendary, Tieck's romantic tale, "Pietro von Abano" (1825), which has been translated into English.

New cautionary tales.

In the western tales is a whimsical grace, a curious extravagance.

It was no good angel that deluded me into telling you that foolish tale last evening.

And thus ends the merry tale of Little John and how he entered the Sheriff's service.

One day a lady called on him, and, telling a piteous tale of a Polish refugee, asked him for help.

At the authorship of this collection of mediaeval tales, many guesses have been made.

And sitting all in seates about me round, 25 With pleasant tales fit for that idle stound [Stound, time.

This is a pitiful tale to be read at St. Gothard; but it is just now nearest my heart.

The stories given are for the most part adaptations of favorite tales from folklore,Andersen, Grimm, Aesop, and the Arabian Nights having been freely drawn upon.

Then the colonel would go forth in his wrath, and farmsteadings would blaze and villages tremble; but next morning there was still that same dismal tale to be told.

But if a friend said, "Not so; it dropped from a balloon, or from the clouds;" and told you the prettiest tale of how the bird came to so strange an end, you would answer, "No, no; I must reason from what I know.

It is now nine; the breakfast-bell will soon ring, and then we are promised the whole of the melancholy tale.

An innumerable swarm of such horrible tales were told, passed on, and finally guaranteed as trueAND YET THEY WERE ALL FAIRY-TALES.