The ground-squirrels, though an exceptionally industrious and enterprising race, as every farmer knows, were hard pushed for a living; not a fresh leaf or seed was to be found save in the trees, whose bossy masses of dark green foliage presented a striking contrast to the ashen baldness of the ground beneath them.

With a shuddering glance at the dead man, whose ashen face stared up in ghastly fashion in the moonbeams, I opened the window and looked out to make sure that no one was below.

The sunshine came through the window, between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains, and fell directly across this vase; so that a mild splendor was reflected from it on the ashen visages of the five old people who sat around.

There was a healthful suffusion on their cheeks, instead of the ashen hue that had made them look so corpselike.

We now began to get a few wounded; one man with ashen face came charging to the rear with shell shock.

Beside him lay a stout ashen bow and half a score of fair, smooth arrows.

Commodus, nearly as naked as when he was born, came running from a dressing room and pranced and leaped over the sand to bring the sweat- beads to his skin; then, snatching at the nearest gladiator, wrestled with him until the breathless victim cried for mercy; dropped him then, as crushed as if a python had left a job half-finished, and shouted for the ashen sword-sticks.

He could see them which ever way he looked over the trampled swardfigures huddled or outstretched in the moonlight, all motionless, ashen-faced.

" "If thou didst not expect morefar more, Sigismund," resumed the maiden, her ashen hue brightened to crimson, "thou hast scarcely been less unjust than the world; and I will add, thou hast never understood that Adelheid de Willading, whose name is uttered with so cold a form.

O'er her husband sate Ione bending Marble-like and marble-hued he lay; Underneath her raven locks descending, Paler seemed his face, and ashen gray, And so white his brow White and cold as snow "Husband!

" Debendra Babu became ashen pale, but he soon regained self-possession.

"Now I'm in for it," he thought and began to tremble violently while his features assumed an ashen hue.

" At first she spoke not; but at length her lips Moved, quivering as in pain, while o'er her face An ashen paleness came, which whiter seemed From startling contrast with her ebon hair; "Father", she murmured, "speak of that no more!

Mammy Jane, ashen with sudden dread, uttered an inarticulate scream, but retained self-possession enough to reach down and draw up the child, which hung dangerously suspended, head downward, over the brick pavement below.

At the mention of the silk purse, however, his face had blanched to an ashen gray, and the words had frozen upon his lips.

And yet I can hardly convey to you the why of this, except by dry details as to the contours of her lofty brow, meagre lips, pointed chin, and ashen cheeks.

" Then, in a moment of sickening misery, Kittredge saw the door open and a black figure enter, a black figure with an ashen-white face and frightened eyes.

he cried, and coming up to the stricken creature, he knelt beside him with ashen face.

It was headed by an ashen-faced peasant pushing a wheelbarrow with a weeping woman clinging to his arm.

Léontine chattered, shrilly, and emerged from the shadows, her dark features ashen, her eyes ringed with white.

" She smiled at him, still with that ashen face.

Loud above his voice his ashen face was speaking to her, and she cried in terror, "What is wrong?"

To pickle Ashen-keys:Take ashen-keys as young as you can get them, and put them in a pot with salt and water; then take green whey, when 'tis hot, and pour over them; let them stand till they are cold before you cover them, so let them stand; when you use them, boil them in fair water; when they are tender take them out, and put them in salt and water.

To pickle Ashen-keys:Take ashen-keys as young as you can get them, and put them in a pot with salt and water; then take green whey, when 'tis hot, and pour over them; let them stand till they are cold before you cover them, so let them stand; when you use them, boil them in fair water; when they are tender take them out, and put them in salt and water.

"I pace the river's icy brink, This dreary Christmas Eve," she said, "And watch the dying sunset sink From pallid gold to ashen red.