"Is my name a bogle to terrify human beings?"

Ann Bishop, Virginia Blake, Amelia Bogle, Anne E. Carey, Sarah Ann Douglass, Rebecca Hailstock, Emma Hall, Emmeline Higgins, Margaret Johnson, Martha Richards, Dinah Smith, Mary Still, and one Peterson were teaching in families.

"Bogle," said Angus M'Lachlan to his henchman, "I think we shall have to lighten this Wolseley valise of mine.

" "That's a fact, sirr," agreed Mr. Bogle.

" Mr. Bogle pricked up his ears.

" "What kind o' a battle will it be this time, sirr?" inquired Bogle respectfully.

A sudden and pertinent thought occurred to Mr. Bogle, who possessed a Martha-like nature.

murmured Bogle.

" "Is that a fact?" replied Bogle politely.

" Bogle cherished a profound admiration for Lieutenant M'Lachlan both as a scholar and a strategist, and absorbed his deliverances with a care and attention which enabled him to misquote the same quite fluently to his own associates.

It was Private Bogle who intervened, and brought the intellectual Goliath crashing to the ground.

"Naithing," replied Bogle with artistic reticence.

"Cough it up, duckie!" "Man, man," cried Bogle with passionate earnestness, "dinna gang ower far!"

Bogle's voice dropped to a ghostly whisper.

"First of all, you, Bogle, take this message to the telephone, and get it sent to Company Headquarters.

"Bogle, what are you doing here?" "I was given tae unnerstand, sirr," replied Mr. Bogle calmly, "when I jined the regiment, that in action an officer's servant stands by his officer.

"Bogle, what are you doing here?" "I was given tae unnerstand, sirr," replied Mr. Bogle calmly, "when I jined the regiment, that in action an officer's servant stands by his officer.

Send Bogle to report when you have finished.

Presently he found what he wanted; and by the time Bogle arrived to announce that Sergeant Mucklewame had signalled "message understood," his arrangements were complete.

"Stay by this small hole in the wall, Bogle," he said, "and the moment the Lewis gun arrives tell them to mount it here and open fire on the enemy gun.

" He left the room, leaving Bogle alone, to listen to the melancholy rustle of peeling wall-paper within and the steady crackling of bullets without.

Though not otherwise conspicuously more civilised than the Arunta (except, perhaps, in marriage relations), Mr. Howitt's South Eastern natives will have improved the Arunta confessed 'bogle' into a beneficent and moral Father and Maker.

Grant that, on initiation, the boys learn that 'the great spirit' is a mere bogle, invented to mystify the women, and keep them away from the initiatory rites.

How were they evolved out of the notion of a confessed artificial bogle?

Why, or how, did a silly buffoon, or a confessed 'bogle' arrive at being regarded as a patron of such morality as had been evolved?