And as they were thinking about the way, behold, a man black of flesh, but covered with a very light robe, vame to them, and asked them why they stood there.

But by and by, before they were aware, he led them both within the compass of a net, in which they were both so entangled that they knew not what to do; and with that the white robe fell off the black man's back.

They told him that they were poor pilgrims going to Zion, but were led out of their way by a black man clothed in white, who bid us, said they, follow him, for he was going thither too.

Some of these good people dwelt in log huts, with the black forest all around them, on the steep and difficult hillsides.

In due time, the mansion was finished; next came the upholsterers, with magnificent furniture; then, a whole troop of black and white servants, the harbingers of Mr. Gathergold, who, in his own majestic person, was expected to arrive at sunset.

A counter and a species of stove, painted in black and white, could be dimly distinguished.

"He has a handsome black overcoat," said the woman.

Madier de Montjan had very black and thick eyebrows, he shaved off half of them, cut his hair, and let his beard grow.

As he finished dressing, a short young man, dressed in black, came in.

In front, stood a venerable-looking personage, of small stature, dressed in rusty black, of the cut that denoted the attire of a clergyman, before it was considered aristocratic to wear the outward symbols of belonging to the church of God.

He's in his white frockthough why he didn't wear his black gairment is more than I can tell yebut

Then eight ruffians appeared; and I saw that the only difference between devils and brigands is that devils are less black than is said, and brigands much dirtier than is supposed.

His dress was very simplea jacket of black cloth, immense blue cotton trousers, large boots of Russian leather, and a loose red cap.

" As Hadgi Stavros marched out at the head of his men, they sang a song composed by their king when he knew Lord Byron: Down the winding valleys a hillsman went his way; His eyes were black and flaming, his gun was clean and bright

He took him to a lake in the black mountains, bade him throw in his net, and bear the catch to the sultan.

The daisies that bent above her instep, and broke beneath her light tread, looked black against her feet; so white the maiden was.

In these later books, of which "On the Height" is perhaps the most characteristic and certainly the most famous, he revealed an unrivalled insight into the soul of the Southern German country folk, and especially of the peasants of the Black Forest and the Bavarian Alps.

They were not black, like negroes, though probably swarthy, being descended from Tyrians and Greeks, as well as Numidians.

CRY, BABY Cry, baby, cry, Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother it wasn't I. BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool?

CRY, BABY Cry, baby, cry, Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother it wasn't I. BAA, BAA, BLACK SHEEP Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool?

His cassock was black, but its hem, its buttons, and the pipings of its seams were scarlet; so were his stockings; so was the broad silk sash that circled his waist; so were the silk gloves, thrust under the sash; so was the birettina, the little skullcap that barely covered his crown and left to view a fringe of white hair and the rebellious lock upon his forehead.

In a moment its color changed from blue-black to yellow.

"Do you see that black forest that looks like a charred log in the snow to the south and west of the mountains?

SEE Bandit of the Black Hills.

R69437. Black shadows of Sawtrell House. R69443.