Mr. Martin, in his observations on Spencer's Fairy Queen, is decided in his opinion, that the fairies came from the East; but he justly remarks, that they were introduced into the country long before the period of the crusades.

But Inspector Chippenfield, with a fierce stare, merely remarked: "And you consented?" "I didn't at first," Hill retorted earnestly, "but when I refused he threatened methreatened that he'd expose me and drag me and my wife and child down to poverty.

"The fellow has evidently come to the conclusion that in dealing with people like the Morristons an offensive brow-beating manner does not pay," he remarked casually.

" "Yours will answer, I think," drily remarked Spalding.

'Certainly, I'm a bit sunburnt,' he remarked thoughtfully.

Mr. Steadman remarked carelessly that there was an editorial in it to which his attention had been drawn, on hearing which Mr. Driggs turned his head and winked at an imaginary accomplice.

" "That," Gifford remarked coolly, "may satisfactorily account for the marks on your cuff.

" "These interruptions are entirely out of order," gravely remarked Smith; "they must not be repeated.

"Well, here we are again," remarked Mr. Doon pleasantly, seating himself upon the corner of Mr. Tutt's desk and spinning his bowler hat upon the forefinger of his left hand.

Both of the boys had a different kind of thinking on hand; and that night Dab dreamed that a gigantic crab was trying to pull Ford Foster out of the boat, while the latter calmly remarked to him, "There, my young friend, did you ever see anything just like that before?

I mentioned to him our contrivance of silver forks, to lessen this labour; but he coldly remarked, that he imagined science was in its infancy with us.

"'Tain't a great sight harder to cook for a dozen than six," she had remarked sententiously, when the plan was unfolded to her, "it's only a matter uv quantity, the quality's jest the same.

During the course of our conversation, Mr. Rose incidentally remarked that he had some idea of laying out a town on the west side of Big Creek, about one mile from the fort, where the railroad was to cross.

"Yuh see, boys," he remarked, laughingly, "I don't want yuh to think I'd poach a deer in the close season, and palm it off as mountain mutton, like they do at some o' the big hotels up here in the Adirondacks, I'm told.

" "Patrichia," softly remarked the Major, with an admiring glance at his small daughter, "has more sinse in her frizzled head than both of us put together.

"Um!" remarked the court significantly.

" Old MORTARITY stared at the hair and beard, thus introduced to him, with undisguised amazement, and grimly remarked, that if the gentleman would come to see him any evening, and bring a social bottle with him, he would not allow the gentleman's head to stand in the way of a further acquaintance.

The result, I need scarcely remark, claims a degree of accuracy to which no preceding determination of longitude could ever pretend.

"Wal, Glidden's hangin' there yet," remarked Jake, cheerfully.

As she was anxious to have the matter settled then and there, she remarked rather sarcastically that a mother should be able to decide such matters alone.

"Maybe you'll think the fire isn't thoroughly distributed, but that's got to do for bread," he remarked severely, as if in reply to some objection.

" "That was what might be termed extraordinary foresight, Mr. Darrin," remarked Lieutenant-Commander Denham ironically.

I had an idea he didn't treat her well," remarked the girl, soberly.

" "Housewifery," remarked Blossy sagely, as she began to gather her missives together, "is an accomplishment to be scorned in a young husband, but not in an old one.

"I suppose, my child," remarked he, playfully, "these spectacles of mine may be called the gravestones for my dead eyes.