Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.

Without being exactly the father of evil, Nan-nee-bo-zho is a spirit whose office it is to punish what is amiss.

But there was one peculiar thing about Ne-naw-bo-shoo.

" Then there is the peepul or bo-tree (Ficus religiosa), which is held in high veneration by the followers of Buddha, in the vicinity of whose temples it is generally planted.

"Bo-oat ahoy!

Whar' ye bo-ound?"

Optat ephippia bos piger: optat arare caballus.

And they bought an owl and a useful cart, And a pound of rice, and a cranberry-tart, And a hive of silvery bees; And they bought a pig, and some green jackdaws, And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of ring-bo-ree, And no end of Stilton cheese.

[Illustration: A bird so fool-ish is the Nod-dy, It may be caught by a-ny-bo-dy.]

" "Beef?" says the microscopic man, probing the meat with a pencil of light that beams from his right eye (the other being closed for concentration purposes), "Beef, sir?not a bit of the bos taurus about it, sir.

Hic enim, quod Seneca de Ponto, bos herbam, ciconia larisam, canis leporem, virgo florem legat.

"What's the matter, my boy?" asked Chip,"locked out, hey?" "No,bo-hoo.

in weight; and whose daily food was the bos longifrons.