The Corner is a long, wide triangle of sand, and the sand is filled with a gold deposit brought down from the headwaters of both rivers and precipitated here, where one current meets the other and reduces the resultant stream to sluggishness.

The Corner is a wild town; you understand?"

Mud Creek, and Jack's Corner, and Shingle Hollow are doubtless appropriate names compared to some.

This corner, or Donovan's pool-shack, was their club, their forum.

So wife she'd worked a little lace shelf-cover to lay under 'em, an' we've hung our framed marriage-c'tificate above 'em, an' the corner looks right purty, come to see it fixed up.

In a week there was a village; in a fortnight there was a town; in a month The Corner had become the talk of the ranges.

" Her corner was an adjoining section of the garret, boarded up, wall-papered, and furnished for those who visited the Farm Hospital on tour of inspection or to see some sick friend or relative, or escort some haggard convalescent to the Northern home.

That "hot corner" is all the hotter for a burning July sun.

Only the corners of the vast crowd which covered the floor and filled the galleries could be seena blur of white faces all bent towards one point.

Now, this corner is Newmarket, where Johnston waited for his troops on Sunday and led them right along the road we are onto the pine wood yonderjust north of us.

THE YOGI'S SEAT.At the corner of the Ankh-Michauli is a square platform covered by a domed canopy.

He sets up his trade upon a pillar, or the corner of a streetThese are his warehouses, where all he has is to be seen, and a great deal more; for he that looks further finds nothing at all.

"I claim you, old friend," yawned the arm-chair, "This corner, you know, is your seat.

As this corner was the most retired within the works, there was no longer any doubt that the hole had been used by all the deserters, including the women and children.

[Illustration: SIR GEORGE GREY Photo by RUSSELL, Baker St., W.] Against it the Governor and Despard moved with 1,200 soldiers and sailors, a strong native contingent, and what for those days and that corner of the earth was a strong park of artillery.

Let its northernmost corner be Vicksburg, the famous, on the Mississippi.

Let the easternmost be Mobile, and let the most southerly and by far the most important, that pivotal corner of the fan from which all its folds radiate and where the whole pictured thing opens and shuts, be New Orleans.

Let the mixture be stirred from the bottom of the cask two or three times daily for three or four days, to assist the melting of the sugar; then paste a piece of linen cloth over the bunghole, and set the cask in a warm place, but not in the sun; any corner of a warm kitchen is the best situation for it.

The corner was the accepted spot; the crowds gathered there, and the omnibus, stopping there, emptied and refilled.

The most inviting corner in the house to Marjorie was a cosey corner in the library; she found her way thither after dinner, and there Hollis found her, after searching parlors, dining-room, and halls for her.

Leiter's Chicago corner in wheat, Sully's corner in cotton, were almost perfect examples of engrossing, but failed when the regrating began.

At the intersection of choir, nave, and transept,an open, square place,rises a square tower, at each corner of which is a massive pier supporting four arches.

The extreme southwestern corner of Germany is an irregular right-angle, formed by the course of the Rhine.

Simpson's Corner was the first visited.

The fighting in Belgium at this stage of the war may be said to have been confined to an area within a triangle whose corners were Antwerp, Aerschot and Termonde.