Banished for a time by the frost, the mud had returned; and mud, on the front, becomes a kind of malignant force which affects the spirits of the soldiers.

" "Mud," was French Pete's verdict.

The mud was the worst calamity that could befall this plain, so extremely dusty in dry weather.

When I returned to the front in June for a longer stay, the mud had become clouds of dust that trailed behind the motor-car.

In 1853, Count Pourtalès, an officer of the United States Coast Survey, which has done so much for scientific hydrography, observed, that the mud forming the sea-bottom at depths of one hundred and fifty fathoms, in 31° 32' N., 79° 35' W., off the Coast of Florida, was "a mixture, in about equal proportions, of Globigerinoe and black sand, probably greensand, as it makes a green mark when crushed on paper."

According to accounts, which were eloquently verified by the silence of all who listened, the mud was hub deep everywhere, and in places the machines were quite out of sight, burrowing like moles.

"What ze bottom?" "Mud," was the answer.

Mud, to be sure;but then railroads are the Napoleons of mud.

The very mud off the roads in rainy weather is not dirt at all, sticky though it undoubtedly is.

The ladies followed to see the start, although the mud was inches deep under foot.