You who love to bask in life's smile, but shudder at its drool!

Sleep, love, and let thy spirit bask awhile In Heaven's own sunshine;yet forget not me!

I trust that Providence will favour usit's really a pity to lose as fine a day as this; especially as the crittur's are coming up on the rocks to bask, something like old times!"

a bidarka, and one man who drives clumsily with a paddle!" Old Bask-Wah-Wan rose to her knees, trembling with weakness and eagerness, and gazed out over the sea.

" "It is Nam-Bok," old Bask-Wah-Wan repeated.

Nam-Bok is dead, O Bask-Wah-Wan, and the dead do not come back.

"La la, it is Nam-Bok," Bask-Wah-Wan croaked, peering up into his face.

"I bore thee, Nam-Bok, and I gave thee suck when thou wast little," Bask-Wah-Wan whimpered, drawing closer; "and shadow though thou be, or no shadow, I will give thee to eat now.

The women voiced a collective sigh of admiration, and old Bask-Wah-Wan ruffled the gay material and patted it and crooned in childish joy.

There was little talk while the feast went on, though many and curious were the glances stolen at the son of Bask-Wah-Wan.

And Bask-Wah-Wan sopped a particularly offensive chunk of salmon into the oil and passed it fondly and dripping to her son.

Bask-Wah-Wan scolded and struggled, but was blown down the beach for a score of feet and left breathless and stranded in a heap of driftwood.

" Bask-Wah-Wan, hobbling fearfully in advance, proud indeed, yet awed by her wonderful son, led him to her igloo and stowed him away among the greasy, ill-smelling furs.

" Bask-Wah-Wan limped to the froth-mark and cried, "I bless thee, Nam-Bok, for that thou remembered me.

"O Bask-Wah-Wan, mother that bore me!"

Wilt thou come, O Bask-Wah-Wan?" She debated a moment, while the bidarka drifted swiftly from her, then raised her voice to a quavering treble.

[Illustration: The Liz-ard in the sun's warm rays De-lights to bask on summer days.]

Let the luscious South-wind Breathe in lovers' sighs, While the lazy gallants Bask in ladies' eyes.

Let Slavery once lean upon the supporting arm, and bask in the fostering smile of the State, and you will soon see, as we now see, both her minions and her victims multiply apace till the politics, the morals, the liberties, even the religion of the nation, are brought completely under her control.

Let Slavery once lean upon the supporting arm, and bask in the fostering smile of the State, and you will soon see, as we now see, both her minions and her victims multiply apace till the politics, the morals, the liberties, even the religion of the nation, are brought completely under her control.

Sleepy, content to bask in the sunshine that flooded its sand hills and kept back the banks of fog that loomed above the higher eminence's separating the cove from the ocean, Yerba Buena dreamed, not of the future in store for it, but of the next fiesta, of the coming barbecue at Miguel Noe's rancho, or of the projected cock fight on Sunday at the Mission Dolores.

The fair Adela was a chilly personage, and liked to bask in her easy-chair before the fire.

when shall I from sin set free, Bask in the light of Deity? Expand my heart and fill the wide expanse.

Within a hut of stone To bask the centuries away Nor once look up for noon? LVIII.

Even Bohannan, chronic complainer, forgot to cavil and began to bask in contentment.

But the joust begun by apostrophes and Homeric insults finishes often with a fight, and the natural arm is the Basque drum until others separate, the adversaries.

With shaking fingers, Angy sought a pin hidden beneath her basque.

"I never thought I'd come to wearin' a quilted silk basque with tossels on it," Abe remarked one day on being urged to try on a handsome smoking-jacket.

They were soft spoken persons with a repressed manner, which characterises both men and women of their ancient race, and they spoke to him in Basque.

Starting at an early hour with plenty of provisions, we bowled down to the Negresse station, crossed the line, and ascended the hill above Lake Mouriscot, at the top of which Bidartthe first of the Basque villagescomes into view.

Thus, an unimportant, probably unpunished, attack by Basque mountaineers on the Emperor's rear-guard has become, in the Song of Roland, a great infamy of Saracenic treachery, which must be greatly avenged.

[Illustration: NOS. 65 and 66] It is plain to be seen that the unattractive specimen of femininity, No. 65., with the long, wrinkled neck and sharply lined face is unbecomingly costumed in the V-shaped basque and corsage which apparently elongate her natural lankness.

Rev. W. Webster, Basque Legends (1877).

Tartaro, in Basque legends, was a one-eyed giant.

The man answered him in German, gibberish, Italian, English, Basque, Lantern-language, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, Hebrew, Greek, Breton, and Latin.

His humour was not improved by the Basque painter's voluble compliments on the success of a coiffure he felt to be his own creation.

Basque people, by Dorothy Canfield.

FISHER, JOHN R. Basque people.

White stars of freedom; a Basque shepherd boy becomes an American, by Mirim Isasi & Melcena Burns Denny.

If Bayonne is the center of commercial affairs for the Basque country, its citizens must, at any rate, go to Biarritz if they want to live "the elegant and worldly life."

An occasional example may still be seen, but the "jolies Basquaises" who conducted them have given way to sturdy, barelegged Basque boysas picturesque, perhaps, but not so entrancing to the view.

Saint-Jean-de-Luz had a population of ten thousand two centuries ago; to-day it has three thousand, and most of these take in boarders, or in one way or another cater to the hordes of visitors who have made itor would, if they could have supprest its quiet Basque charm of coloring and charactera little Brighton.

Den I've remembers de basque waist on de over skirts dese war made real tight waists wid a point in de back en ober de stomach.

When they arrived at the little valley of Roncesvalles, between the defiles of Sizer and Val Carlos, this rearguard was unexpectedly attacked by thousands of Basque mountaineers, who were joined by thousands of Arabs eager to massacre and plunder the Christians and Franks, who, indeed, perished to a man in this ambuscade.

In a note Jubinal says: 'Ces paroles sont empruntées au chant basque d'Altabicar.' Son cheval syrien.

The real story, which alone outlives the modíste's bonnets and shawls, may drape itself as it pleases; for it does not depend on its peplos, or stola, on its stomacher, or basque,or crinoline, for its effect.

A`LAVA (97), the southernmost of the three Basque provinces of Spain, largest, but least populous; rich in minerals, and fertile in soil.

The Germans, Flemings and English, as well as the Spanish mountaineers in the Basque provinces and the Asturias, and the Austrians, Swabians, and Swiss in the Alps make beer from barley, wheat, and fruits in the same manner.

[Note 1: The word Bacallaos is thought to be of Basque origin.

Basque, Breton, and Norman fishermen visited it in the following century.