A pox on you, mine goodly host.

" Said the host afterward in his broken English, "Ze idea of electing to ze presidency a man vot drink buttermilk vis his soup!"

Now, the war-hosts of the ancient commonwealthsnot dependent on the mechanical contrivances of the modern armywere necessarily composed of the very best men: the strong-boned, the heart-stout, the sound in wind and limb.

" I did not feel I had really made much headway, but I fared rather better with my host downstairs, who either did not pray with such enthusiasm or else had forestalled the muezzin.

Fortunately our host, having less faith in us than we had in ourselves, sent a guide to reconnoiter, and, just at the moment when we began to realize our danger of spending the night on the mountain, and to admit it to each other, the welcome guide hailed us in his broad accent.

Gloria tantum elatus, non ira, in medios hostes irruere, quod completis muris conspici se pugnantem, a muro spectantibus, egregium ducebat. 1952.

[Footnote A: An incident closely resembling that which created the English panic at Bannockburn happened, with the same results, in one of the battles won by the Swiss over their invaders; but we cannot call to mind the name of the action in which it occurred.] "To arms they flew,axe, club, or spear, And mimic ensigns high they rear, And, like a bannered host afar, Bear down on England's wearied war.

"Northward our host," he said, "Heaven's son sends forth to tame the Heen-yun wild.