And then, as if the secret of this delightful ambrosia had just dawned upon him, his bright little eyes fixed themselves covetously upon the tin basin.

"You really ought to have it nectar; with whipped ambrosia on top.

" Mrs. Draper troweled this statement on with a dashing smear, saving Sylvia from being forced to answer, by adding lightly to the man, "Is ambrosia anything that will whip, do you suppose?" "Never heard of it before," he answered, breaking his silence with a carefree absence of shame at his confession of ignorance.

" "Men are horribly fond of them, certainly," observed the Fairy from behind, whose name was Ambrosia.

"Remember," said Ambrosia, from behind, "it is a choice with poor mortals between heavy foot-walking, and the lumbering vehicles you talk of.

and the delicate Ambrosia, springing up, floated softly round the bay, and then returned smiling to her companions.

Ambrosia held back"Your choice, dear Sister?" asked Euphrosyne.

Also Fairies with wings are quite comprehensible creatures; for one fancies them so light and airy and transparent, living upon honey dew and ambrosia, that wings wherewith to fly seem their natural appendages.

" "Man never is but always to be blest," cried Ambrosia laughing.

" "You are prejudging now, Ambrosia, wait till another ten years is over; but we must see our little beauty through the twenty-four hours."

You smile, Ambrosia!

Come with me then to Ambrosia's God-daughter, whom they visited last, and whose Fairy gift the other Fairies were to guess at!

Well then, do fancy it, and how it rang in silver peals when our fairy friends, on entering the last nursery they had to visit, found Ambrosia's protégée in a flood of angry tears, stamping her foot on the ground in a passion!

"It is Patience, Ambrosia.

"I cannot make out your Fairy gift at all, Ambrosia," said Euphrosyne, "

" "We are all growing philosophical, I perceive," said Ambrosia, smiling.

So this was only a joke of Ambrosia's.

Ambrosia was almost affected to tears, once more.

In my cylinders I consumed nectar vapour, in my goo-cups ambrosia, in my radiator flowed the crystal waters of the Fount of Bandusia.

Down East ambrosia.

Down East ambrosia.

He that eateth the Vighasa, is regarded as eating ambrosia.

What remaineth in a sacrifice after dedication to the gods and the pitris is regarded as ambrosia; and what remaineth after feeding the guest is called Vighasa and is equivalent to ambrosia itself.

What remaineth in a sacrifice after dedication to the gods and the pitris is regarded as ambrosia; and what remaineth after feeding the guest is called Vighasa and is equivalent to ambrosia itself.

" At seven thirty the fence was done, gorgeous in a coat of fresh red paint, and the hands departed, each with a slice of Miss Mattie's chocolate cake, a thing to make the heathen gods feel contemptuous of ambrosia.