" Rubbing his skull quite dismally, the prospective pedestrian goes straightway to the porch of the Alms-House, and there waits until his sister comes down in her bonnet and joins him.

It will be rather awkward, he thinks, to be in Bumsteadville for a week or two after the Macassar young ladies shall have heard of his matrimonial disengagement, as they will all be sure to sit symmetrically at every front window in the Alms-House whenever he tries to go by; and he resolves to escape the danger by starting for Egypt, Illinois, immediately after he has seen Mr. DIBBLE and explained the situation to him.

"Why then, messire," laughed the fellow, leaping nimbly to his feet, "why then doth he ask alms of thee, as thus: Prithee most noble messire, of thy bounty show kindness to a fool that lacks everything but wit.

It is a popular delusion that fakirs will not accept alms from anyone for any purpose, for I have considerable personal experience to the contrary.

It was a common practice for mendicants to place themselves near some of these crosses, and ask alms; whence the ancient proverb, "He begs like a cripple at a cross." Cornwall abounds with stone crosses.

What is here? Think not that alms, or lowly-seeming garments, Self-willed humilities, pride's decent mummers, Can raise above obedience; she from God Her sanction draws, while these we forge ourselves, Mere tools to clear her necessary path.

These churches lifted their hard stone faces insolently, registering their yearly alms in the morning journals.

In 1340 Edward III granted Licence to the Coventry men to form a Merchants' Gild with leave "to make chantries, bestow alms, do other works of piety and constitute ordinances touching the same."

[Illustration: ALMS-BOX.]

" [Illustration: ALMS-BOX.]

" INDEX Abbots of Coventry, 4. Alms-boxes, 56, 77.

re not be a second and still more disastrous collapse of the Gaston bubble? Pressed hardly, Hunnicott admitted the probability; given another turn, the screw of inquiry squeezed out an admission of the fact, slurred over by the revivalist, that the railway company's treasury was really the alms-box into which all hands were dipping.

Have I already fallen so low that I must ask alms?

The hour, prescribed by astrologers as propitious, had been settled by the horoscope; masses meanwhile were said in several churches, and alms distributed.

Being o'er-task'd in thought, he heeded not The importunate suit of one who stood by the gate, And begged an alms.

And thereupon Sir Francis called to mind The beggar-witch that stood by the gateway And begged an alms.

and so togive an alms.

Again, alms, aloes, bellows, means, news, odds, shambles, and species, are proper plurals, but most of them are oftener construed as singulars.

I am indebted to the Rev. William Drake, of Coventry, for a rubbing from one of these mysterious inscriptions, upon an "alms-plate" in his possession.

The have been termed alms-dishes, and are used still in parochial collections in France, as doubtless they have been in England.

"To the Brethren of the Middle Temple, £4. in part of £8. appointed alms for the support of three chaplains to celebrate divine service, at Easter Term, in the 41st year, by writ patent.

FaustusTo Fettle, &c. QUERIES: Catacombs and Bone-houses, by Rev. A. Gatty Contradictions in Don Quixote, &c., by S.W. Singer Ancient Alms-Basins Minor Queries:Cupid CryingWas Sir G. Jackson Junius?Ballad of Dick and the DevilErasmus' ParaphraseIland ChestCourt of WardsAncient TilesPilgrimage of kingsAnthony BekWelsh CustomFall of RainMetal for TelescopesColonel Blood's HouseLucas's MS.TheophaniaMS.

* ANCIENT ALMS-BASINS.

The northern antiquary, Sjöborg, who has written much on the subject, calls them baptismal or alms dishes.

In four lines she gives the storm, the cold and savage foreground, and the distance of the Heights: "One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns, all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.

He stood at the foot of the bed and stared, stared at his father lying there in Eliot's arms.

Already, it seemed, that Alice and he lay clasped together in the arms of God.

The wandlike moments, he remembers, always came to him in haunts all remote indeed from poetry: a sudden touch at his heart, and the air grows rhythmical, and seems a-ripple with dreams; and, albeit, in whatever room of dust or must he be, the song will find him, will throw her arms about him, so it seems, will close his eyes with her sweet breath, that he may open them upon the hidden stars.

Ah, my love shall fare as a banner in the hand of thy renown, In the arms of thy fame accomplished shall it lie when we lay us adown.

No trumpet signals except "to arms" or "to horse" are sounded, and all unnecessary noises must be avoided.

When the outguards are established, the members of the support may stack arms and remove equipment except cartridge belts.

This assembly is under arms.

On reaching the camp site the men should be allowed to fall out and rest as soon as the arms have been stacked and the shelter tents pitched.

Officers should avoid keeping the men unnecessarily under arms or on their feet after a hard day's march.

This roll call is under arms and is supervised by an officer of the company.

The officer then reports the result of the roll call to the adjutant or officer of the day, returns to the company, inspects the arms, and dismisses it.

The course in small-arms firing consists of (a) Nomenclature and care of rifle.

The regulations governing these are found in Small Arms Firing Manual, 1913.

[Footnote 9: The number refer to paragraphs in the Small Arms Firing Manual, 1918.]

courses in range practice are given in paragraphs 147 to 199, Small Arms Firing Manual, 1913.

They belong to the domain of tactics and are treated of in the Field Service Regulations and in the drill regulations of the different arms of the service, The purpose of exterior guards is to prevent surprise, to delay attack, and otherwise to provide for the security of the main body.

When the person for whom the guard has been turned out approaches, he faces his guard and commands: 1. Present, 2. ARMS; faces to the front and salutes.

When a guard commanded by a noncommissioned officer is turned out as a compliment or for inspection, the noncommissioned officer, standing at a right shoulder on the right of the right guide, commands: 1. Present, 2. ARMS.

"Present arms" is executed by a guard only when it has turned out for inspection or as a compliment, and at the ceremonies of guard mounting and relieving the old guard.

The commander of the guard will inspect the guard at reveille and retreat, and at such other times as may be necessary, to assure himself that the men are in proper condition to perform their duties and that their arms and equipments are in proper condition.

At all formations members of the guard or reliefs will execute inspection arms as prescribed in the drill regulations of their arm.

Her shoulders shone through transparencies of lace and muslin which slipped back as she lifted her arms to draw the tortoise-shell pins from her hair.

" Undine stretched her arms luxuriously above her head and gazed through lowered lids at the foreshortened reflection of her face.

Undine murmured as she slipped her arms into their transparent sleeves.

"If I can get away soongo straight over to Paris...there's some one there who'd do anything... who COULD do anything...if I was free..." Mr. Spragg's hands continued to grasp his chair-arms.