The speed with which rumor spread was incredible.

Again in the same play we find "Let twattling fame cheatd others rest, I um no dish for rumors feast.

" "It is said that thou earnest among the gondoliers in the late regatta, and that, but for this aged fisherman, thou would'st have been winner of the prize?" "In that, rumor hath not lied, Signore.

returns he with a cold smile; "since you will have it, it is only that rumorand you know what a liar rumor issays that once, some years ago, they were engaged to marry each other.

Mr. George Johnston writes from the sub-agency of La Pointe, Lake Superior, that a rumor prevails of a murder lately committed by a Chippewa war party, on American citizens, on the upper Mississippi. 31st.

Rumor sonóro, p. I 70, XV, l. 3.

But a fearful rumor cut short their dispute.

"And let me add this," he continued: "every day you are here in Washington the tongue of rumor wags the more.