The boats which are used in this country are drawn up on the shore all winter, as the sea is then too rough for their use.

They are sharp at both ends, and wide in the middle, their planks being fastened with tree-nails, and their bottoms payed over with pitch; and as the natives use no compasses, or other maritime instruments, they always creep along the coast.

But no one would take up the wager, as they all knew he could perform even better than he mentioned.

Yet they are exceedingly hospitable, and charitably disposed, as they will most readily give a dinner, or a supper, or a nights lodging, to any stranger who comes to their houses, without expecting any remuneration or reward.

They have also a Moorish weapon, much-bent like a Turkish sword or cimeter, and made of iron, without any steel, which they procure from the negroes on the river Gambia, as they either have no iron in their own country, or want knowledge or industry in working it.

Having but few weapons, or rather no missiles, their wars are very bloody, as they soon come to close quarters, and their strokes seldom fall in vain; and, being extremely fierce and courageous, they will rather allow themselves to be slain as save themselves by flight; neither are they disheartened by seeing their companions slain.

Having but few weapons, or rather no missiles, their wars are very bloody, as they soon come to close quarters, and their strokes seldom fall in vain; and, being extremely fierce and courageous, they will rather allow themselves to be slain as save themselves by flight; neither are they disheartened by seeing their companions slain.

The negroes of this country are the most expert swimmers in the world, as I can vouch from frequent experience of their dexterity.

Cada Mosto is incorrect in the chronology of this discovery, and even de Barros is not quite decided as to the first discovery of the Senegal.

Beyond Cape Roxo, the sea forms a gulf, about the middle of which there enters a river, which the seamen called St Mary del Nievos, or of the snow, as having been discovered on the day of that Saint.

The clever officer, who had played his part so well, was as cool as ice.

The clever officer, who had played his part so well, was as cool as ice.

'IF I WERE TO DO AS ISEULT DID' XII.

Lady Maulevrier smiled benignly, as at an inoffensive ignorance.

'What a horrid day!' said Lady Mary, throwing down her book with a yawn, and looking out of the deep bay window into a world of mountain and lake which was clouded over by a dense veil of rain and dull grey mist; such rain as one sees only in a lake district, a curtain of gloom which shuts off sky and distance, and narrows the world to one solitary dwelling, suspended amidst cloud and water, like another ark in a new deluge.

Yet both these men were commonly spoken of as handsome.

" The awful struggle of his own soul against its last destruction sent a strong vibration through his softened voice, and lent the base lie he spoke such deadly beauty as might dwell in the face of Antichrist, to deceive all living things to sin.

"I have frequently seen the mistress of a family in Virginia, with whom I was well acquainted, beat the woman who performed the kitchen work, with a stick two feet and a half long, and nearly as thick as my wrist; striking her over the head, and across the small of the back, as she was bent over at her work, with as much spite as you would a snake, and for what I should consider no offence at all.

"I have frequently seen the mistress of a family in Virginia, with whom I was well acquainted, beat the woman who performed the kitchen work, with a stick two feet and a half long, and nearly as thick as my wrist; striking her over the head, and across the small of the back, as she was bent over at her work, with as much spite as you would a snake, and for what I should consider no offence at all.

"I have frequently seen the mistress of a family in Virginia, with whom I was well acquainted, beat the woman who performed the kitchen work, with a stick two feet and a half long, and nearly as thick as my wrist; striking her over the head, and across the small of the back, as she was bent over at her work, with as much spite as you would a snake, and for what I should consider no offence at all.

"I have frequently seen the mistress of a family in Virginia, with whom I was well acquainted, beat the woman who performed the kitchen work, with a stick two feet and a half long, and nearly as thick as my wrist; striking her over the head, and across the small of the back, as she was bent over at her work, with as much spite as you would a snake, and for what I should consider no offence at all.

"I have frequently seen the mistress of a family in Virginia, with whom I was well acquainted, beat the woman who performed the kitchen work, with a stick two feet and a half long, and nearly as thick as my wrist; striking her over the head, and across the small of the back, as she was bent over at her work, with as much spite as you would a snake, and for what I should consider no offence at all.

His overseer, boasting of his skill in managing a nigger, he was submitted to him, and treated as above.

[Illustration] A monastery, I must tell you, was a place where a number of men lived together away from the rest of the world, in order, as they thought, to devote themselves more to the service of God, than if they were mixed up with the business and pleasure of life.

Instead of calling upon the Agent to take charge of the annuity money, as had heretofore been the custom, the Governor had announced his intention of bringing it himself to Fort Winnebago and being present at the payment.

Rather an ass ... rather ridiculous; apparently in every way but one.

When for a drunken Sot, that had kind hours, And taking their own freedoms, left you yours; 'Twas your delib'rate choice your days to pass With a damn'd, sober, self-admiring Ass, Who thinks good usage for the Sex unfit, And slights ye out of Sparkishness and Wit.

The ringing of Bells is an Ass to't.

thou'rt an Ass, we are but even with the brisk Rogues, for they take away our Fame, cuckold us, and take away our Wives:

thou'rt an Ass, Francisbut no morecome, come, let's to bed Let.

I'll not be fob'd offwhat, do they take me for a Foolan Ass? Bred.

She would look pensive just to make an ass of you!

That exquisite writer, Horae Subsecivae Brown, quotes, (without comment,) as a motto to one of his volumes, an anecdote from Pierce Egan, which I reproduce here: "A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlors, discovered a young ass, who had found its way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself.

wy did yu sai al ass yu sad iff yu cud unt mary nor none of the scolards at hocksfoot Kolidge.

thinc i shal take im ass father sais there is sum mistake, mi deerest deere mi art is brock butt

He'd pinch BALAAM'S ass.

"'You hairy old ass!

The man is a complete ass.

But the ass couldn't see it.

I couldn't help saying to him, at the end of the evening, in a tone of such evident satire that anyone but an ass would have recognised it, that I had seldom had as keen an evening at cards.

I had hardly started to talk about the rate of exchange on the German mark in relation to the fall of sterling billsa thing that you would think a whole table full of people would be glad to listen towhen first thing I knew the whole lot of them had ceased paying any attention and were listening to an insufferable ass of an EnglishmanI forget his name.

All through dinner that ass talked he and that silly young actor they're always asking there that is perpetually doing imitations of the vaudeville people.

"The fellow's an ass," I decided.

"I suppose that ass, Lagune ...

How much better it would have been if you were a dunce like me or your fatherbut a dunce at least who knows how to get a woman if he has to, without making a public ass of himself!"

At times I feel inclined to think that I was not worthy of her; at others, that I made an ass of myself over a girl like dozens of others.

I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me: the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Among the rest of these stood Balaam's ass A speaking likeness (if you will, a braying) And Abraham's sacrifice, and there, alas! Lot's daughters, too, their drunken sire betraying.

Both parties thus reviled and cursed away, And none who heard could tell the why or whether, Till Balaam's ass at last began to bray And soon outbawled both gods and saints together.

Still, it is by no means certain that this fortress would have resisted an ass laden with gold, any more than did that of which Philip of Macedon spoke.