From the essays read Child's Play, Aes Triplex (both in Virginibus Puerisque).

Phr. aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit

AN APOLOGY FOR IDLERS NOTES III AES TRIPLEX NOTES IV TALK AND TALKERS NOTES V

The end came suddenly, exactly as he would have wished it, and precisely as he had unconsciously predicted in the last radiant, triumphant sentences of his great essay, Aes Triplex.

Compare the tone of the close of this essay with that of the conclusion of AEs Triplex.

III AES TRIPLEX The changes wrought by death are in themselves so sharp and final, and so terrible and melancholy in their consequences, that the thing stands alone in man's experience, and has no parallel upon earth.

Stevenson's cheerful optimism was constantly shadowed by the thought of Death, and in Aes Triplex he gives free rein to his fancies on this universal theme.

[Note 1: The title, AEs Triplex, is taken from Horace, aes triplex circa pectus, "breast enclosed by triple brass," "aes" used by Horace as a "symbol of indomitable courage.

[Note 1: The title, AEs Triplex, is taken from Horace, aes triplex circa pectus, "breast enclosed by triple brass," "aes" used by Horace as a "symbol of indomitable courage.

[Note 1: The title, AEs Triplex, is taken from Horace, aes triplex circa pectus, "breast enclosed by triple brass," "aes" used by Horace as a "symbol of indomitable courage.

Many youthful aspirants for literary fame have been moved by its perusal to adopt a similar method; but while Stevenson's system, if faithfully followed, would doubtless correct many faults, it would not of itself enable a man to write another Aes Triplex or Treasure Island.

It forms the text of one of Stevenson's familiar discourses on Death, like Aes Triplex.

Such a man Stevenson would have delighted to include in his brave roll-call, and of him those final, well-known words in Aes Triplex might have been written: "In the hot-fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side.

We have endeavoured to convert him to our way of thinking, but the strong, reflective mind, "Illi robur, et aes triplex Circa pectus erat," is not to be persuaded.

Thus: (if we adopt the names now most generally used in English schools:) A, Aes; Bee, Bees; Cee, Cees; Dee, Dees; E, Ees; Eff, Effs; Gee, Gees; Aitch, Aitches; I, Ies; Jay, Jays; Kay, Kays; Ell, Ells; Em, Ems; En, Ens; O, Oes; Pee, Pees; Kue, Kues; Ar, Ars; Ess, Esses; Tee, Tees; U, Ues; Vee, Vees; Double-u, Double-ues; Ex, Exes; Wy, Wies; Zee, Zees. OBS.

of such a word as ans or aes!

These we cannot avoid, except by using the names of the things: as, two Aes, three Bees, four Nines.

Mr. BROOKS called the hooks and ayes on the corsets.

He said: "The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each otherour different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding.

I have pleasure grounds and mansions grand, Low-voiced servants come at my call, From Senate my name sounds over the land In "ayes" and "nays" so solemnly read; They call me "Honorable," "General," and all, But to-night I am only Charley again, I am Charley, and want to lay my head On my mother's heart and rest, With her soft hand pressed upon my brow

" A few "nays" succeeded the great chorus of "ayes," and the motion of Coventry for Jetson was declared tabled.

In 1895 the men of Utah, where as a Territory women had voted seventeen years, by a vote of 28,618 ayes to 2,687 noes, gave them this right in its constitution for Statehood.

[The question was carried by 67, the Ayes being 260; Noes 193.

This affair was again debated with vehemence upon the report on Monday, December 13, 1742, upon a question, whether the levy-money should stand part of the general question, which was carried by 53; Ayes 230, Noes 177.] HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 1, 1742-3.

The numbers present were four hundred and eighty-three, and the votes as follows: Ayes, four hundred and fifty-eight; Noes, twenty-five.

If every member in every division were to vote according to his own judgment and conscience upon the question put, there would be a perpetual circulation of members between the Ayes to the right and the Noes to the left.

See how white it iswhiter than the snow!" Croisset looked at him a little anxiously as he ate his meat, and at the gathering unrest in his ayes Howland burst into a laugh.

The hour of one o'clock P.M. having arrived and the general business of the town being now in order, the following named persons were elected, by ayes and noes, overseers of highways for the ensuing year in the following road districts, viz.: (here give the numbers of the road districts and the names of the persons elected overseers thereof.)

On motion of H.S.H.H., the following by-law was adopted, ayes , noes : "It is hereby ordered and determined that it shall be lawful for horses, mules and asses to run at large in the town of , in the day time, from the first day of April to the 15th day of October, in each year, until further ordered.

SUB-DIVISIONS OF THE ORDER PRIMATES Order Sub-orders Families ,- a. PROSIMII (Lemurs and Aye-Ayes) | | ,- i. Hapalidae (Marmosets)

The "Ayes" had it.

"Ay""No;" but the "Ayes" had it.

Argument fluctuated on the question of whether or not he would ever return, with now the noes and now the ayes having it.

Mr. President: The small progress we have made, after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many Noes as Ayes, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding.

Did you meet Mrs. Fairfax outside?" "Ayes.

With my interpreter gone, and everybody else too busy guzzling to trouble to speak distinctly for my benefit, I had to depend on my ayes for information and naturally used them to the utmost.

I think the Ayes have it.

"Ayes" or "Noes" is the hurried answer; and he stalks through the lobby to discharge this intelligent function, dives down to his room again, only, if the House is in Committee, to be dragged up again ten minutes afterwards for another repetition of the same farce, and so on indefinitely.

Without a call for the ayes and nays, the question was decided in favor of declaring the power of removal to be in the President.

" On passing the ordinance, the ayes and nays were required by Judge Yates, of New York, when it appeared that his was the only vote in the negative.

The ayes have it.

The ayes have it.