[Footnote 53: My staff was always the handle of an ax an inch or two longer than an ordinary walking-stick.

His staff and his scrip are his walking furniture, and what he lacks in meat he will have out in drink.

He dwells in the centre of London's wide Town; 5 His staff is a sceptrehis grey hairs a crown; And his bright eyes look brighter, set off by the streak Of the unfaded rose that still blooms on his cheek.

The "Reeve-Staff" is an archaic method of recording the payments of rates, and is similar to the old Exchequer tallies, to the burning of the many years' stores of which, and consequent conflagration, we owe our present Houses of Parliament.

"All the staff I have is the young lady you just sawMrs.

PUNCH'S STAFF OF LEARNED CLERKS.) HANSI, the Alsatian caricaturist and patriot, who escaped a few months before the War, after being condemned by the German courts to fifteen months' imprisonment for playing off an innocent little joke on four German officers, and did his share of fighting with the French in the early part of the War, is the darling of the Boulevards.

I clapped applause, and straight produced my gifts: A staff for Daphnis'twas the handiwork Of nature, in my father's acres grown:

Yes, be it so;repent and be forgiven God and that staff are now thy only guides.

"Seriously, Staff, is there any reason for waiting?

The Staff is the brains of the army, and he had brains.

The staff of life is bread, and of this we had but two days' supply.

It is further added that on one occasion a shepherd happened to pass the mysterious spot where the thistle was growing, when instantly his arms were paralysed and his staff became tinder.