One word for the cathedral of Amiens before we leave the bustling streets of the old Picard capital.

New England, however, has a history which carries us back to the times of James I.; and while its cities are full of such bustling modern life as one sees in Liverpool or Manchester or Glasgow, its rural towns show us much that is old-fashioned in aspect,much that one can approach in an antiquarian spirit.

While thus he pondered, presently he sees, Hard by the casement,so the story goes, A little band of busy, bustling bees, Hunting for honey in a withered rose.

By this means the work will be divided, and there will be no unnecessary bustling and hurrying, as is the case where the work is done any time, without rule or regulation.

A bustling and active girl will always find time to do a little needlework for herself, if she lives with consistent and reasonable people.

" That Exchange, which had so lately resembled a bustling temple of Mammon, was already a dark and sheeted ruin, its marble walls being cracked, defaced, tottering, or fallen.

" With his tongue in his cheek he scurried away, just in time to avoid the proprietor of the store, who now came bustling out to learn what all the racket might mean, and found our four boys busily replacing his pyramid of empty boxes.

CHAPTER II READY FOR THE START Centerville was a thriving town situated almost midway down the east shore of Camalot Lake, and very nearly opposite Newtonport on the opposite bank; in consequence, there was more or less rivalry between the two places, which condition extended from the shopkeepers and banks to the sports of the boys of the bustling miniature cities.

He had just such a square, active, bustling sort of body, several sizes larger; with just such keen, penetrating, greenish-gray eyes.

She heard Victor bustling about in his resilient fashion, and again Piers' voice, somewhat curt and peremptory, reached her through the closed door.

He entered the room in an energetic, fussy sort of manner, and came bustling across to Lord Lammersfield, who had risen from the table to meet him.

For commerce it is the most bustling city (inland) in all Germany, besides it being the seat of the present German Diet; and from here, as from a centre, diverge the high roads to all parts of the Empire.

Handsome lady-like Mrs. Owen, bustling out of the kitchen with a supper-tray, ran full against him, and uttered a Welsh scream.

And she began bustling about the room.

The city was attractive, bustling, built on hills overlooking Puget Sound.

"Well, my little beauty, you have not finished even one garland," said the voice of old Jocunda, bustling up behind her.

" "Yes, yes,good enough,and too good," said Elsie, bustling about;"roses can't help having thorns, I suppose.

Yet, amid all the hurry and brilliant bustle of the articles, the author is, as he was in the most bustling moment of the life they described, a spectator, an artist.

Contrast this fearfully laborious process with the bustling, hurrying machine of to-day.

The supposition, that the author of "Macbeth," "Hamlet," and "King Lear," was a bustling young attorney, is of respectable age, and has years enough upon its beard, if not discretion.

The activity was more that of a busy, bustling factory town.

They were not those petty, sharp, brisk, soda-water knocks given by little, bustling, common-place men.

For a busy, bustling city, on a flat, it is unquestionably by far the best conveyance, on account of carrying so many, and being so handy for ingress and egress.

" Instantly the Dolphin's deck was a scene of bustling activity.

From Havre to Hammersmith is a bit of a jump, but it is from a bustling port to a peaceful spot"a Harbour of Refuge" at Nazareth, where the Baron sincerely trusts the good Little Sisters of the Poor are no longer Poor-rated £120 per annum, just by way of parochial encouragement, I suppose, to other charitable persons for relieving the parish "of an incubus of four hundred."