Or thus: "Hill and valley boast thy blessing.

" Cordelia Running Bird read aloud slowly: "'Even so the tongue is a little member, and boast-eth great things.

The address referred to in the foregoing letter was taken down in shorthand, and was substantially as follows: "Comrades: I feel at this moment as Alexander Stephens said he felt at the close of the war of 1865, and it can well be illustrated by the boasting athlete who declared he could throw out twenty men from a neighboring saloon in five minutes.

Suppose a man, with eyes like his neighbours, was told by a boasting corporal, that the troops, indeed, wore red clothes for their ordinary dress, but that every soldier had likewise a suit of black velvet, which he put on when the King reviews them.

In wrestling I did much excel And lov'd to douse a boasting fop, Nor cared I how or where we fell Provided I fell on the top.

This was one of his greatest faults; and whenever he seemed to be in this boasting mood, he almost always got into some difficulty after it.

Who, like the boasting oak, appear; They think their hands were never made To wield the distaff, plough, or spade; Their taper fingers, soft and fair, Are made to twine their silken hair, Or place upon a brow of snow, Their gold and diamond rings, to show.

Yet still no praise belongs to me I do not sympathize with thee; I never can be proud and vain, And imitate thy boasting strain; But humbly on my way I'll plod, For I receive my strength from God.

His boasting tales about the power of the English settlers to imprison and to let loose the desolating plague at their will and pleasure, had been told to the Sagamore of the Wampanoges, as well as to Coubitant and Miantonomo; and suspicions had arisen in the breast of Masasoyt, which he vainly strove to infuse into his more enlightened and trustworthy son, Mooanam.

If this were once contrived, I would spice my text with sailors' oaths and such boasting talk as might lie in my invention.

But with all respect for Cicero's material honesty, one learns from his letters, unfortunately, not to put implicit confidence in him when he is in a boasting vein; and he might not look upon voluntary gifts, after a cause was decided, in the light of payment.

Remember once You brav'd us with your bombard boasting words.