She was beyond complaining or asking questions; with a sudden jerk upon the reins she brought Blackie about.

Blackie got up, tottering, with one quivering fore-leg lifted.

King had drawn up after him, stage after stage, the roll of bedding, using Blackie's tie-rope to haul it up and to moor it briefly.

Blackie has probably limped back home by now.

"See that sweet little blackie back in the alders.

Blackie's Etymological Geography, p. 103.

Among these one of the most useful and suggestive is Blackie's well-known book, "How to Get Strong and how to Stay so."

Life: by Cunningham; by Henley; by Setoun; by Blackie (Great Writers); by Shairp (English Men of Letters).

For Latin text of De Bello Gallico see Bell's Illustrated Classical Series; Dent's Temple Series of Classical Texts, 1902; Macmillan and Co., 1905; and Blackie's Latin Texts, 1905-7. * *

There were two other travellers in the same plight, a Mr. and Mrs. Blackie, and we sat together through that long hot day, too utterly hungry and bored even to pretend interest in each other.

" We had nothing to look forward to at the end of the journey except a dâk-bungalow's cold welcome, but the Blackies, who live at Madhabad, insisted we should go home with them to dinner; so, instead of the tinned ham-and-egg meal we had expected, we had a dainty, well-cooked dinner in a cosy dining-room.

Mr. Blackie begged us to go back to his place for the night, but we wouldn't hear of it.

Madhabad is a large village, but the Blackies are the only Europeans.

" At the station we were told that the train was two hours late, and Boggley thought it would be an excellent plan to spend the time calling on the Blackies, who live near; so, leaving Autolycus and the chuprassis with the luggage, we set out.

We had been shown the flower-garden and a crocodile that Mr. Blackie had shot, and were about to drink a dish of tea in the drawing-room, when we heard the whistle of an engine.

"The train!" cried Boggley, bounding to his feet, and spurning the cup of tea Mrs. Blackie was offering to him.

Listen to this of the old men's chorus in the "Agamemnon," in the spirited translation of my friend Professor Blackie: 'Twas said of old, and 'tis said to-day, That wealth to prosperous stature grown Begets a birth of its own: That a surfeit of evil by good is prepared, And sons must bear what allotment of woe

The people have got so used to their "blackies," as they call them, that no lesser or greater fête day can pass without the gipsy band having ample work to do in the form of playing for the people.

Here, for instance, in A Naval Venture (BLACKIE) we do get the real thing, and boys would be well-advised to sample it and see if it is not preferable to the kind of adventurous fiction produced so prolifically for their amusement.

BLACKET, Sir Thomas, v. 148, n. 1. BLACKIE'S Etymological Geography, v. 237, n. 3.

THE BOSS OF CAMP FOUR, a photoplay in five reels by Fox Film Corp. © 29May23, L18992. R65951, 17Aug50, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (PWH) BOSTON BLACKIE, a photoplay in five reels by Fox Film Corp.

THE BOSS OF CAMP FOUR, a photoplay in five reels by Fox Film Corp. © 29May23, L18992. R65951, 17Aug50, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. (PWH) BOSTON BLACKIE, a photoplay in five reels by Fox Film Corp.

Oh, captain, let's go open it this minute, before those blackies get back.

"It will not be an easy job to open that mound, and we shall need the help of the blackies, as you call them, if we do it at all.

JOHN STUART BLACKIE.