" "Well, but," said Percy, with a few slight hesitations, "not to t-take an interest in c-coal is not to take an interest in the n-nation, for this n-nation is g-great, not by its p-powerful fleet, nor its little b-b-bit of an army" A snort from the Colonel.

I th-think more about keepin' peace among n-neighbors, bein' kuh-kindly to the poor, h-helpin' on the cause of eddication, and d-doin' ginerally as I would be done by.

"Yates," he said unsteadily, "all I ask of you is to keep this terrible n-news from my innocent d-daughters until I can f-find out what sort of a person is f-fated to lead me to the altar!" Yates took the offered hand with genuine emotion.

We always know that within half an hour of a-n observation by aeroplane the shells will begin to fall above the gunners unless they have altered their position.

What she actually put down was "What r-tt-n piffle!" To Wilbur Cowan, in recounting her fall from the serene heights of pacifism, she brazenly said: "Do you knowwhen that poor boy reached down to shake hands with me, if I could have got at him