Here are two crack'd groats To helter-skelter at some vaulting-house.

" Before Mr. Bounderby could reply, a young man mentioned in the bills of the day as Mr. E.W.B. Childers,justly celebrated for his daring vaulting act as the wild huntsman of the North American prairies, appeared.

A pair of plain parallel bars, a movable vaulting-bar, a wooden horse, a spring-board, an old mattress to break the fall, a few settees where sweethearts and wives may sit with their knitting as spectators, and there is a Turnhalle complete,to be henceforward filled, two or three nights in every week, with cheery German faces, jokes, laughs, gutturals, and gambols.

They came up the stairs, and put down and bolted the cellar door, and moved upon it with great difficulty the parallel bars with their iron supports, from the gymnasium, and several 25-pound dumb-bells, as well as the heavy vaulting-horse.

He tells tales out of a vaulting-school.

Bishop Ralph's contribution to the fabric may be distinguished within by the tall vaulting shafts running up from basement to roof, and without by the flying buttresses.