Soft were my numbers; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.

'Fanny' was, of course, Mrs. William Bolton, and was the happy mother of five nearly grown-up sons and daughters, and certainly stood in no peril as to her own or their possession of the name of Bolton.

Fanny was a novice in the Art, and this was her first day this winter.

And Fanny became a dancer.

Fanny, now the wife of Henry Villard, the financier, was the favorite and pet.

Margaret was Mrs. Robert Bolton, and Fanny was the wife of the barrister brother who lived in London.

'Wait a minute, my dear.' 'Have I got the colour of a barmaid, and a waist like Fanny's?' Fanny was the Morrison's housemaid, and was not slim. 'Be quiet, Bella; you disturb me.' Bella's chin mounted still higher; her foot once more beat the ground impatiently, while her father looked from the picture to her, and back again.

Fanny is a pretty woman.

" The modest behaviour of Joseph, with the character which Adams gave of him, entirely cured a jealousy which had lately been in the gentleman's mind that Fanny was the daughter of some person of fashion and that Joseph had run away with her, and Adams was concerned in the plot.

"But Fanny is pink and pretty and soft and a foola very excellent match for a Man."

Fanny was a handsome little brunette, about Redbud's age, and full of merriment and gleeperhaps sparkle would be the better word, inasmuch as this young lady always seemed to be upon the verge of laughterbrim full with it, and ready to overflow, like a goblet of Bohemian glass filled with the "foaming draught of eastern France," if we may be permitted to make so unworthy a comparison.

If Miss Fanny was livin' she could settle it.

" Fanny was Fanny Holcroft, Mrs. Kenney's stepdaughter.

Soft were my numbers; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense? Like gentle Fanny's was my flowery theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.

She was as broken-hearted as if Fanny had been her own childmuch more than the old mother herself, I fear.

Fanny! were all the world like thee, How cheerly then this life would glide, Dear emblem of Fidelity!

"She thus punished a hired slave woman named Fanny, belonging to Mr. Charles Trabue, who lives neat Palmyra, Marion co., Missouri; on the morning after the punishment Fanny was a corpse; she was silently and quickly buried, but rumor was not so easily stopped.

"Clarissa Parks is engaged; but so is Fanny Hunting, and Fanny is the plainest little body.