FERGUSON, EMILY WOODS.

Lee remained throughout the winter at his headquarters in the woods south of Fredericksburg, watching the Northern army, which continued to occupy the country north of the city, with the Potomac River as their base of supplies.

She looked not at us, but far away, through the rough wood inside, through the stone of the tower: her gaze seemed limitless.

With us, toys refer the mind and habits of children to home economy, husbandry, and mechanical labor; and their very material is durable, mainly wood and iron.

Neere to it too a wood did growe, [Sets down the bowes.

" And Miss Bertram moved away, whilst her little nephews worked off their excitement at this news, by jumping down from the wall, and performing a mimic battle in the pine wood outside.

This the pilot shewed to the two knights, and then steered the pinnace into its bay; and here, after a voyage of four days and nights, it dropped its sails without need of anchor, so mild and sheltered was the port, with natural moles curving towards the entrance, and evergreen woods overhead.

the woods ere we are beset!"

One of the smaller woods southeast of Crecy furnished cover for the enemy for a time, but led to their undoing.

There are no forests of any value in Lahoul and Spittiscarcely indeed any wood at all.

Of him there is a pretty fable, that once being sent to prison for debt, he won over the jailer's daughter, and she brought him stealthily wood and implements with which he made the so-called "prison fiddles," of whose curious shape Charles Reade said: "Such is the force of genius that I believe in our secret hearts we love these impudent fiddles best; they are so full of chic."

And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches tost.

CHAPTER IV THE GIRL ON THE PLATFORM The Vancouver express was running in the dark through the woods west of Fort William.

We had a very bad encampmentloose rough stones to lie on, and scarcely wood enough to make a fire.

Sometimes, instead of using so many different kinds of wood, when a very polychromatic effect is required, holly wood and sycamore are stained different colours, and the marquetry thus prepared, is glued on to the body of the furniture, and subsequently prepared, engraved, and polished.