Neither men nor women are distinguished for personal beauty, though we noticed several very comely dames in our perambulations; and notwithstanding the boasted purity of their descent from the ocean-roamers of the north, they have many of the anomalous features of a mixed race.

His wife even is a jolly, portly dame, his children chubby rogues, with legs shaped like little old-fashioned mahogany bannistershis barns as big as fortresseshis horses like mammothshis cattle enormousand his breeches surprisingly redundant in linseywoolsey.

It was cultivated in tanks in the gardens; it was the chief material for festal wreaths; a single bud hung over the forehead of many a queenly dame; and the sculptures represent the weary flowers as dropping from the heated hands of belles, in the later hours of the feast.

Then come, ye courtly dames of France, Oh!

Madame, who was an elderly dame of elephantine girth, had resided in the hotel for half a dozen years, during which period her sole exercise had been taken in slowly descending from her chamber in the upper regions for her meals, and then, leisurely assimilation completed, in yet more slowly ascending.

It was evidently looked after by some homely dame.

His wife even is a jolly, portly dame, his children chubby rogues, with legs shaped like little old-fashioned mahogany bannistershis barns as big as fortresseshis horses like mammothshis cattle enormousand his breeches surprisingly redundant in linseywoolsey.

But the dame she turns toward the wall, To wipe her tears that fall and fall, All so kind.

] DAME (sharply).

My passion for that sprightly dame and her gracious acceptance of it were happily not to deteriorate under the regard of any possible daughter, however egregiously might we flaunt to her trained eye our need to be "finished.

A TALE Before his lion-court, To see the gruesome sport, Sate the king; Beside him group'd his princely peers; And dames aloft, in circling tiers, Wreath'd round their blooming ring.

There, when the squadron comes in, officers in uniform dance at desperate sailors' pace with delicate Creoles; some of them, coloured as well as white, so beautiful in face and figure that one could almost pardon the jolly tars if they enacted a second Mutiny of the Bounty, and refused one and all to leave the island and the fair dames thereof.

IV Then bravely, fair dame, Resume the old claim, Which to your whole sex does belong; And let men receive From a second bright Eve The knowledge of right and of wrong.

For her valued services she was elected in 1881 a Dame Chevaliere of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

The centerpiece on the table was an arrangement of bachelors' buttons and at every place was a tiny toy wheelbarrow filled with candies, a wee dressed-up dolly dame perched atop of each load.