Your account of my black-balling amused me.

"I served in the French war Truxtun's war, as we call itand I had a touch with the English in the privateer trade, between twelve and fifteen; and here, quite lately, I was in an encounter with the savage Arabs down on the coast of Africa; and I account them all as so much snow-balling, compared with the yard-arm and yard-arm work of this very night.

The snow had continued during the afternoon, and the boys had had an exciting time coasting and snow-balling and enjoying themselves generally.

What a balling dost thou keepe!

At that moment Dawson Bobbs lounged in at the door, with his perpetual grin balling up his broad red face.

I only meditated improvingly on the way in which a man of exceptional faculties, and even carrying within him some of that fierce refiner's fire which is to purge away the dross of human error, may move about in society totally unrecognised, regarded as a person whose opinion is superfluous, and only rising into a power in emergencies of threatened black-balling.

His love for the child was well known in London society; and of it did Sheridan's friends take advantage, when they wanted to get Selwyn out of Brookes', to prevent his black-balling the dramatist.

Your account of my Black Balling amused me.

"My Black Balling."

When I went on to bowl left-handed "donkey-drops," Tom Peregrine (my own servant, if you please) was very nearly no-balling me.

The ball of fire did no one any injury but disappeared before it did injury to anyone.

At the same time there fell a fire ball which destroyed one of the king's residences, killing his wife, many of his people and his son, Aodh Mac Cairbre, who were buried in the falling ruin.

I let him shoot off my pistol toder day, and he pat de ball smack through de bull's eyedat boy is gwine to be a perfect Ramrod.

"I suppose there has never been a human being as gifted in balling things up as I am," meditatively boasted Kate.

"Talk about balling things up!

He added carelessly, bouncing a ball up and down on the tense catgut of his racquet: "What all you girls see in that old wolf-hound, to lose your heads over!

I joined the boys in all their sports; sliding and snow-balling with them in winter, and running and playing ball in summer.

The winter wore rapidly away with sleigh-riding, snow-balling, and our usual parties; and spring, lovely spring!

"Then I've this for the hole," he yelled, and topped his ball gently into the water ...

One can fancy the delight of the oppressed Puritan boys, in the days of the nineteenthlies, driven to the place of worship by the tithing-men, and cooped up on the pulpit-and gallery-stairs under charge of the constables, at hearing for once a discourse which they could understand,snow-balling spiritualized.

The air was full of troubletrouble in set pieces and bombs and sizzy rockets and sixteen-ball Roman candles, and all pointed right at me.

A fellow may know everything that's happened since the Lord started the ball to rolling, and not be able to do anything to help keep it from stopping.

* "Scotch reels, corner dances, and waltzes were favourites at the Masons' ball on Tuesday evening.

BOSTON ROAST Mash one pound of cooked kidney beans and put them through a food chopper, add one-half pound of grated cheese, salt and red pepper to taste and sufficient bread crumbs to make the mixture stiff enough to form into a ball.

The victim now avenged himself, with the same glee which a literary club throws into the black-balling of some evil tonguesome too harsh and too powerful critic of the moment.