Do you think there is no hope it may prove untrue?" "You know the letter explicitly states that my cousin and his wife, the negro woman, and the white baby, all died of yellow-fever," replied Madame.

As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.

[Illustration: A Yellow-hammer.]

Yellow-leg plovers.

Who stole that pretty nest From little yellow-breast?" "Not I," said the sheep; "oh, no!

A few minutes afterward a barred yellow van, under escort, came through the square fronting the railroad station and disappeared behind a mass of low buildings.

The flowers are unusually large, and remarkable for the tufts of golden-yellow stamens with which they are furnished.

Something black fluttered momentarily against the livid yellow-green of the lower sky, and then the thin and penetrating voice of a bell rose out of the black gulf below him.

From the same place comes the song of a Maryland yellow-throat.

On Dreaming Creek Boon fell asleep and dreamed he was stung by yellow-jackets.