The peas danced merrily against the sides of an old-fashioned china bowl.

This leaf he plucked from the outmost twig Was somewhat withered, 'tis true, Long years had flown since it lightly danced To the summer air and the dew; Not much of a dowry brought she, In beauty or vulgar pelf,

At other times, taking him on her shoulders, she would bound nimbly as a wild goat up the steepest places, springing from crag to crag, and dancing gaily along the narrow ledges of rock, where it made him dizzy to look down.

[Illustration: "Three or four hundred Indians were dancing wildly around a huge fire"] How long that slow progress continued I cannot rightly say; but it seemed to me as if the morning was near at hand when we were arrived, having miraculously passed such stragglers, scouts, or sentinels as might have been in the vicinity, at a point where we could have a view of this particular portion of the encampment.

She could not only sing like a lark, and dance divinely, and embroider beautifully, and spell as well as a "Dixonary" itself, but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own as won the love of everybody who came near her, from Miss Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery and the one-eyed tart woman's daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall.

"He dances beautifully," she replied.

" The music danced madly through Stafford's brain as his father waited, looking at him smilingly.

And with this I bustled away, leaving her literally dancing with curiosity.

'Willie Cricker dances very prettily, too; he came to one of my evenings and had quite a success.

They danced wonderfully together, swaying together like two reeds in the same gentle wind.

" "Only there's the dance afterward, and you had so much more costume for the other," Sin Saxon said demurringly.

" She stood so evidently waiting for them to go, that in a few moments they all found themselves somehow or other outside the door, with Gerald politely escorting them down-stairs, and Olly dancing joyously ahead, crying that Mr. Halloway had sent for him to the rectory.

The wind howled in the sitting room chimney, but in front of the great back-log the bed of live coals glowed red and the flames danced high, casting flickering shadows on the children's faces.

At irregular intervals an aged relative will arise and dance excitedly around the central person, vociferating, and with wild gesture, tomahawk in hand, imprecate the evil spirit, which he drives to the land where the sun goes down.

The empty-headed, spindle-shanked youths who dance admirably, understand something of billiards, much less of horses, and still less of navigation, soon grow inexpressibly wearisome to us; but the men who adopt their social courtesy, never seeking to arouse, uplift, instruct us, are a bitter disappointment.

He knew that he was dancing awkwardly; he had not danced for a dozen years.

It was that fact, more than any other, save one, which lent intrepidity to Flora's perpetual, ever quickening dance on the tight-rope of intrigue; a performance in which her bonny face had begun to betray her discovery that she could neither slow down nor dance backward.

According to Mercy, she was pale and thin, had a long nose and a wide mouth, danced badly, and was very awkward in manner.

[They dance out, convulsively, towards Rudersheim.

WHEN JENNY WREN WAS YOUNG 'Twas once upon a time, when Jenny Wren was young, So daintily she danced and so prettily she sung, Robin Redbreast lost his heart, for he was a gallant bird.

he cries, dancing ecstatically.

He danced the minuet elegantly.

He took another look at his victim and, turning away, danced fantastically along the road home.

He dances finely, Mr. Lovelace says; is a master of music, and singing is one of his principal excellencies.

Then he saw his dog dancing frantically about a young lady who held in her arms a little white spaniel, which she had evidently just snatched up from annihilation.