Every Monday morning regularly, when I awoke, I found ten or a dozen, or perhaps twenty men and women, standing around my door, waiting for me to make my first appearance, and begging that I would let them off from work that day on account of sickness.

If the gale gets stronger, half them ships will be ashore afore morning, and if they do, God help those on board!"

" Consequently next morning at early daylight the children were mounted on horses, the chief mode of travel in Virginia at that time, and, accompanied by their aunt's husband and two negro slaves, they set off on the long journey.

Nothing more disturbed them, but they woke the next morning, tired and cross and with a decidedly "morning after" feeling.

"Madame," said Monsieur Vignevielle, "wad pud you bout so hearly dis morning?

She liked her hotel, too, and said but half-heartedly each morning, "To-morrow I'll go on."

We started on our fatal journeyonly this morning.

"I brought her home last night," he went on, "very lateearly this morning ratherwith the intention of leaving her here alone.

"At any rate, I like my beauty sleep to be undisturbed; more especially in the country, where there are so many noises to wake one up from four o'clock in the morning onwards.

The morning overhead was perfectly lovely, as away east, across the desert the sun early showed his face to us.

I am told that in a few years the work of restoration will be completely achieved, services will be held regularly on the mountain top, and peasant pilgrims will gladly, if patiently, climb morning and evening up the stone way to the church, having no thoughts of any time but that in which they are worshipping.

'T was a moonset at starting; but while we drew near Lokerem, the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear; At Boom a great yellow star came out to see; At Duffeld 't was morning as plain as could be; And from Mecheln church-steeple we heard the half-chime, So Joris broke silence with "Yet there is time!"

It's queer, Johnny, how we do remember things that ain't of no account; but I remember, as plainly as if it were yesterday morning, just how everything looked that night, when the teams came up, one by one, and we went to work spry to get to rights before the sun went down.

" "You mean to remain until the funeral is over, I suppose?" "I think not; I want to go back to Hampshire as soon as possibleby an early train to-morrow morning, if I can.

You wouldn't hang a starving woman or child who stole the baker's loaf from your window-sill this morning before Polly had time to take it in, would you?

"Morning," tersely, from the head of the house.

o' three that she needed for her bairns; and Mrs. Galloway, o' Little Lochend, slipt in to me a peck o' meal ae morning when I had naething for breakfast.

And Wes, raucous, violent, his mouth foul with unclean wordsonly this morning he had told her that when Sunday came they'd go into the woods and find a wild clematis to plant beside the front door.

Poises Arcturus aloft morning and evening his spear.