The candle stood on the counter, its flame solemnly wagging in a draught; and by that inconsiderable movement, the whole room was filled with noiseless bustle and kept heaving like a sea: the tall shadows nodding, the gross blots of darkness swelling and dwindling as with respiration, the faces of the portraits and the china gods changing and wavering like images in water.

" The Colonel turned about, wagged his head defiantly at the icy hills and the night, and in the after-stillness fell sound asleep in the snow.

At last I took some of your old clothes, and showing them to Fidele, the poor animal, as if he understood me, immediately began to scent your path; and conducted me, continually wagging his tail, to the Black River.

But the Dog merely wagged his tail and said quietly, "I'm ready, master:

SECOND WAG (gravely).

FIRST WAG (softly).

His small head wagged backward and forward as he made the statement, and his evident inability to see that the reference concerned us irritated the youngster beyond measure.

What's the matter with you, Shade Buckheath?" "There's nothing the matter with me," Buckheath declared wagging his head portentously, and avoiding her eye.

she said, stopping, as the pretty little spaniel trotted up to the boy's reclining figure, and began snuffing about it, and then broke into a quick short bark of pleasure, and fawned and frisked about him, and leapt upon him, joyously wagging his tail.

FIRST WAG (sadly).

Does his tail wag horizontally or perpendicularly?

" "I do not know," The conical hat wagged sagely.

"Yes, there can be no doubt of that," the Chief went on to say, wagging his head wisely; "and they had been able in some way to get on to a lot of things that make us wonder like the name of the cashier and the night-watchman.

Yes, it was 'Dolph, dirty, begrimed with coal; 'Dolph fawning towards her, cringing almost on his belly, but wagging his stump of a tail ecstatically.

He wagged his tail, not enthusiastically.

Miss Crilly wagged her head expectantly.

So there you are, young man!' Macgregor's head wagged feebly on the pillow.

As he crossed the room, the loose head showed upside-down over his back, bobbing and flabbily wagging its grin-split face.

"Good dog," said Philip; "is that opium you have found?" The hound's tail wagged furiously, and he scratched at the basket in a paroxysm of excitement.

What do they say at home about me up here?" Os-Anders wags his head helplessly; there's no end to the great things they say; more than he can tell.

" He was wagging his head now insistently, but pinioning his gaze with the slightly glassy stare of those who think none too clearly.

" The dog wagged his tail intelligently, took the bouquet carefully in his mouth, carried it to his mistress's grave, and laid it among the other flowers.

you three cats pawsof one littleAnna!" Flora jauntily wagged a hand, then suddenly rose and pointed with a big bread knife: "Go, dress!

He seized it and ran home, laying it at his master's feet, joyfully wagging his tail meanwhile.

The freshman class wagged its head knowingly and said: "I told you they couldn't get on without March," and held its head higher for that one of its members was a Varsity player.