Great care should be taken with such soups as lentil, split-pea, potato soup, &c., to avoid a coarse "mushy" consistency.

We lodged here this Sunday night in a comfortable bed-room, apparently the best one; and all that I noticed unusual in the nightfor I still kept taking notes, like a spy in the campwas the creaking of the thin split boards, when any of our neighbors stirred.

The fencing practice of the American farmer has followed the line of least resistance and is founded on the lowest first cost: the original "snake" fences of split rails, upon the making of which a former generation of pioneer American boys qualified themselves for Presidential campaigns, being followed by woven wire "made by a trust" and not the most enduring achievement of Big Business.

Split-ear, a battling coyote; with pictures by William Wallace Clarke.

There was a noise of keys rattling on split rings as lockers were opened and dissecting instruments taken out.

And Billy Bumblebee buzzed right around his head as Old Man Hoppy-toad went down the path "Lickity split-Hoppity hop!"

And the shower of splinters, sucked in by the whirl of the train, broke glass in the private car and sprinkled the quartet on the platform with split kindling and wreckage.

Is that a large carrot split lengthwise?

They are from six to seven feet highsometimes higherand are formed by laying long split logs one over another diagonally, by which simple process the necessity of nails or uprights is avoided; and as wood is dirt-cheap, the additional length caused by their diagonal construction is of no importance;but, being all loose, they are as awkward to leap as a swing-bar, which those who have once got a cropper at, are not anxious to try again.

Upon arriving at the humble unpainted home of Rachel Bradley I found her sitting in the doorway on a typical split-oak bottomed chair watching the traffic of State Street, one of our busiest streets out of the high rent district.

It has a curious split prow, so made for ease in lifting with one hand, and may have one, two, or three hatches, according to its size.

One said there was insufficient plot; one said the plot was too complicated; one said it was too long for a one-reel, and the next said it was too short even for a split-reel.

Zip saw it all in a split-second as his inertia carried him out of view.

Under the first tree I found a ghastly bunch of red bones, a spread of grayish hairs and a split skull.

In addition we annually waste much of our best oak in the preparation of split staves for export.

Supposing eggs (the cheapest) to be used,Draw a gallon or so of the wine, and mix one quart of it with the whites of four eggs, by stirring it with a whisk; afterwards, when thoroughly mixed, pour it back into the cask through the bunghole, and stir up the whole cask, in a rotatory direction, with a clean split stick inserted through the bunghole.

Meantime a line of tiny rods, with bits of white paper in their split tops, gradually extended its way straight through the haunted ground, and across the canal diagonally.

The stab was to be made with the dagger shut, then the spring touched and the split blades withdrawn.

They likewise make quadrangular structures of small split wicker, like large chests, and frame for them an arched lid or cover of similar twigs, having a small door at the front end; and they cover this chest or small house with black felt, smeared over with suet or sheeps' milk, to prevent the rain from penetrating; and these are likewise decorated with paintings or feathers.

; such boilers sometimes have what is termed a split draught.

As he crossed the room, the loose head showed upside-down over his back, bobbing and flabbily wagging its grin-split face.

They are light treaders, the split-feet, so that the solitary camper sees their eyes about him in the dark sometimes, and hears the soft intake of breath when no leaf has stirred and no twig snapped underfoot.

Contrasted with these, Artiodactyla have always an even number of functional digits, the third and fourth reaching the ground symmetrically, bearing the weight and forming the "split hoof;" the second and fifth remain, in most cases, as mere vestiges, showing externally as the accessory hoofs or dewclaws; in the hippopotamus alone they are fully developed and the animal has a four-toed foot.