Most mountaineers in California call him the Pine Squirrel; and when I asked an old trapper whether he knew our little forester, he replied with brightening countenance: "Oh, yes, of course I know him; everybody knows him.

" "That's awfully kind of you," answered Mugford, brightening up.

Adelheid had been weeping; but, judging from the radiance of her eyes, the healthful and brightening bloom of her cheeks, and the struggling smiles that played about her ripe lips, the tears had been sweet, rather than painful.

But, instead of the brightening eye, and the sudden expression of joy that she expected, the young man appeared overwhelmed with feelings of a very opposite, and indeed of the most painful, character.

"I hope it is only that," answered Mrs. Burton, brightening up at the suggestion.

The sister's hands were clasped in each other, and they sat silently watching the gradual brightening of the crescent moon, and the coming forth, one by one, of the stars.

I've seen, myself, at sunset time, The golden lake in which they rest; Seen, too, the barks that bear The Blest, Floating toward that fadeless clime: First dark, just as they leave our shore, Their sides then brightening more and more,

The sun this morning shone brightly, and its rays were reflected upon the sides of the dismal cañonso dark, and gray, and stillenlivening and brightening it.

She spoke with enthusiasm, her eyes and cheeks brightening.

"Millions on millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill, and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing towards the day.

Over her daughter's shoulder Adelaide noted her father's expression, a stiffening of the mouth and a brightening of the eyes.

he exclaimed presently, his face brightening.

"On my word," said Louis, brightening, "it is well put.

"I believe you can do it if you try," he admitted, brightening a little.

Nina held in her lap a tray of coins which she was engaged in brightening.

" He came home one evening somewhat dejected, brightening up as he stood in the passage and inhaled the ravishing odours from the kitchen.

"But come," he added, brightening up, "I will not talk of such things before we are fairly in the house!

"On the hill-top above me sat the rising moon; pale yet as a cloud, but brightening momently; she looked over Hay which, half lost in trees, sent up a blue smoke from its few chimneys; it was yet a mile distant, but in the absolute hush I could hear plainly its thin murmurs of life.

"I lifted my eyes: his face, instead of being irate, lowering and furrowed, was overflowing with the smile, coloured with the bloom I had seen brightening it that evening at the Hotel Crécy.

The countenance of the new year was harsh, rugged, and gloomyas of a stony-hearted, strong-minded new year, that had no idea of making his wintry aspect pleasant, or brightening the gloom of his infancy with any deceptive gleams of January sunshine.

The fire had very nearly gone out, and she had some difficulty in brightening it a little.

Perhaps they are minerals," said Dodo, brightening up as she thought of the word.

The kind refresher of the Summer heats: Nor, when cold Winter keens the brightening flood, Would I, weak-shivering, linger on the brink.

The living, brightening, all-pervading soul of the establishment is the LANDLADY.

We felt her brightening influence, but Fanny sulked, feeling dethroned.