" In a fortnight more Patricia abandoned her chair and took to crutches, on which she hobbled everywhere as actively as the others walked.

The trappers encamped that night on the edge of a wide grassy plain, which offered such tempting food for the horses that Pierre resolved to forego his usual cautious plan of picketing them close to the camp, and set them loose on the plain, merely hobbling them to prevent their straying far.

The doctor at last, hobbling painfully and leaning on the stretcher-bearerfor he himself had been twice wounded, once in the foot by a piece of shrapnel, and once through the tip of the shoulder by a rifle bulletcame to Private Ruthven.

The old man could scarcely hobble across the room.

Mr. Wilks sat for a little while over the fire, and then, rising, hobbled slowly upstairs to bed and forgot his troubles in sleep.

It was a very painful pilgrimage, but he set his teeth and leaned hard on his stick, and hobbled along dauntlessly, though every now and then his injured foot would give a twinge which made him snarl to himself and stagger.

Uncle John and the Major started along the path but as Beth attempted to follow them Myrtle broke away from her and hobbled eagerly on her crutches toward the stranger.

Then he substituted a black tie for a colored one, whipped out a little mirror and his hare's-foot, etc., browned and colored his cheek, put on an admirable gray wig, whiskers, mustache, and beard, and partly whitened his eyebrows, and hobbled feebly out of the little wood an infirm old man.

Mart Brenner's wife laid down the ladle with which she had been stirring the contents of a pot that was simmering on the big, black stove, and, dragging her crippled foot behind her, she hobbled heavily to the door.

If I let my end of the sack slip out of my fingers he was ready for me with knife or pistol, so there was no opportunity to take a pistol or knife from him, even if I had not been helplessly hobbled.

" Abruptly he turned away and hobbled hurriedly around the corner of the barn.

Spain, indeed, rode in a high chariot for a time, but at length, in that unlucky Armada drive, crashed against English oak on the ocean highways, and came off creaking and rickety,grew thenceforth ever more unsteady,finally, came utterly to the ground, with contusions, fractures, and much mishap,and now the poor nation hobbles hypochondriacally upon crutches, all its brave charioteering sadly ended.

For about two hours the debate hobbled on very lamely, when on a sudden your brother rose, and made such a speechbut I wish anybody was to give you the account except me, whom you will think partial: but you will hear enough of it, to confirm anything I can say.

" Slowly, mechanically, all through the winter night the victors hobbled along.

Shambling along with knees bent together, sores on every joint, and frequently an eye knocked out, the poor pony's back gets cruelly galled; when the bazaar is reached, he is hobbled as tightly as possible, the coarse ropes cutting into the flesh, and he is then turned adrift to contemplate starvation on the burnt-up grass.

" Samuel hobbled onward, his brow knit with angry resentment.

She turned and hobbled swiftly to the shelf.

] Then a cigarette he lighted, as he slowly strolled away, Saying, "That was jolly, Guv'nor, now we'll practice every day"; While his father from the puddle, where he wallowed in disgrace, Smiled upon his offspring, proudly, from a bruised and battered face, And with difficulty rising, quick he hobbled to the house.

For over an hour she had hobbled blindly.

It was a job to dress; I hobbled bravely down the road And reached a C.C.S.;

" So saying, she hobbled off briskly, and Agnes, sitting down on the fragment sculptured with dancing nymphs, began abstractedly pulling her flowers towards her, shaking from them the dew of the fountain.

Carrying it beneath her arm, she hobbled brokenly toward the shelter of the buildings.