" The Ode to Hope looks like one of Blair's Sermons cast into a lyrical mould.

" He rose to his feet, picked up the heavy ox-goad, struck the near ox sharply on the side, and walking on a little ahead of the team, said: "I'll just take ye down a piece, Mr. Ganew, till we're in sight of Jim Blair's, before I undo ye.

It was the second eleven's ball, and Joel raced down the field after the kick-off as far as their twenty-yard line, and there caught Blair's return punt very neatly, ran three yards under poor interference, and was then seized by the mighty Greer and hurled to earth with a shock that completely took the breath out of him for a moment.

At the first play it was sent speeding away from Blair's toe to the Yates mid-field, a long, clean, high kick, that led the forwards down under it in time to throw the waiting back ere he had taken a step, and that brought shouts of almost tearful delight from the Harwell sympathizers.

"Error in Blair's Lectures, p. 107.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 117: and Jamieson's, p. 99.

Blair's Rhet., p. 55.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 129.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 146.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 32.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 168.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 318.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 421.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 50.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 41.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 438.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 18, "And we have no reason to wonder at this being the case."Ib., p. 249.

"Monosyllables ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, and preceded by a single vowel, never double the final consonant; excepting add, ebb," &c.Murray's Gram., p. 23; Picket's, 10; Merchant's, 13; Ingersoll's, 8; Fisk's, 44; Blair's, 7.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 271.

"Blair's Gram., p. 118.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 330.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 52.

"Blair's Rhet., p. 151

'"Blair's Rhet., p. 117; Murray's Gram., p. 323.

[Illustration: GENERAL BLAIR'S BRIGADE ASSAULTING THE HILL