When an important piece of intelligence arrives, our provincial politicians shut themselves up with their gazettes, shun society, and endeavour to avoid giving an opinion until they are certain of the strength of a party, or the success of an attempt.

"It was not in such a man as Enoch Crosby, to seek ease, or shun danger, in the hour of his country's trial.

Our foes with lightning and with thunder fight; My men in vain shun death by shameful flight: For deaths invisible come winged with fire, They hear a dreadful noise, and strait expire.

The question crudely put to shun delay, 'Twas carried by the major part to stay.

13. 'To shun detraction, would'st thou virtue fly?' 349.

"The wisdom which constitutes this form, and receives this love, is rational, and at the same time moral, wisdom: rational wisdom regards the truths and goods which appear inwardly in man, not as its own, but as flowing in from the Lord; and moral wisdom shuns evils and falses as leprosies, especially the evils of lasciviousness, which contaminate its conjugial love.

Exactly for the same reason the average American working woman shuns housework as a means of livelihood.

Don't leave out that Part about her being in love with her Father's Butler, which makes her shun Men; for that is the truest of it all.

Come, Petaille, you are the strongestyou are to carry Madame Kinzie, and To-shun-nuck there (pointing to a tall, stout Winnebago), he will take Madame Helm.

The good man quietly discharges his duty, and shuns ostentation; the vain man considers every good deed lost that is not publickly displayed.

The field o' Lexin'ton, where England tried The fastest colors thet she ever dyed, An' Concord Bridge, thet Davis, when he came, Found was the bee-line track to heaven an' fame, Ez all roads be by natur', ef your soul Don't sneak thru shun-pikes so's to save the toll.

As I said, economy is good; but, above all things, shun stinginess.

And, lastly, shun violence as you would a temptation of the devil.

BOHEMIAN, name given to one who lives by his wits and shuns conventionality.

"I think young folks, both colors, shuns work.