"PSYCHE am I, who love to dwell In these brown shades, this woody dell, Where never busy mortal came, Till now, to pry upon my shame.

I have not forgot How thou didst love thy Charles, when he was yet A prating schoolboy: I have not forgot The busy joy on that important day, When, child-like, the poor wanderer was content To leave the bosom of parental love, His childhood's play-place, and his early home,

Strange forms of logic clothe my admiring speech, Old Ramus' ghost is busy at my brain; And my scull teems with notions infinite.

There is a response suggesting readiness, and soon after figures are busy amongst sledges and ponies.

Thursday, March 9, A.M.Yesterday and to-day very busy about the hut and overcoming difficulties fast.

Day appeared to have been unceasingly busy during my absence.

Wilson is very busy making sketches.

Ponting has taken some coloured pictures, but the result is not very satisfactory and the plates are much spotted; Wilson is very busy with pencil and brush.

Evans is busy surveying the Cape and its vicinity.

Indoors he is editing our Polar journal, out of doors he is busy making trial stone huts and blubber stoves, primarily with a view to the winter journey to Cape Crozier, but incidentally these are instructive experiments for any party which may get into difficulty by being cut off from the home station.

Opening out the stores, installing a blubber stove, &c., has kept him busy, whilst his satellite, Anton, is ever at work in the stablesan excellent little man.

The busy winter routine of our party may therefore be excusably held as a subject for self-congratulation.

Tuesday, May 30.Am busy with my physiological investigations.

The physicists are busy always, Meares is making dog harness, Oates ridding the ponies of their parasites, and Ponting printing from his negatives.

Thursday, August 10.There has been very little to record of late and my pen has been busy on past records.

I have been exceedingly busy finishing up the Southern plans, getting instruction in photographing, and preparing for our jaunt to the west.

They drove in silence almost to the rue Neuve de Berry, Calvert musing on the strange glimpse he had had of life in Paris, Beaufort busy with his restless horses.

"Lafayette is still in Auvergne, I believe, busy with his elections, so that I fear he will not be here tomorrow, the evening of the weekly Legation reception.

The day after Calvert's arrival was a long and busy one for him.

No step could be taken until the 9th, however, when Lafayette would be at Compiègne, and, in the meantime, those gentlemen engaged in the service of his Majesty were busy trying to prepare the way for the King's removal from the capital.

"We've been too busy with your brasted 'ens," and he broke the news of the pullets to Mr. Skinner as one might break the window of an adverse politician.

"Been too busy with your 'ens," said Fulcher.

There was a busy coming and going from the wasps' nest, they saw.

Then for a time everybody was busy with a gun.

Now German diplomacy must busy itself, not to keep them at her side, but to prevent their going with the adversary.