I could not see this Devil's cloven Foot; Nor am I such a Coxcomb to believe, But he was as substantial as his Gold.

By thy Pearls and Diamond Rocks, By thy heavy Money-Box, By thy shining Petticoat, That hid thy cloven Feet from Note; By the Veil that hid thy Face, Which else had frighten'd humane Race: [Soft Musick ceases.

Likewise in the Australian bush demons whistle in the branches, and in a variety of other eccentric ways make their presence manifestreminding us of Ariel's imprisonment: "Into a cloven pine; within which rift Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain, A dozen years; ... ...

According to a popular piece of superstition current in our southern counties, the devil is generally supposed to put his cloven foot upon the blackberries on Michaelmas Day, and hence after this date it is considered unlucky to gather them during the remainder of the year.

THOUGH THE HOOF IN THE HOG is, as a general rule, cloven, there are several remarkable exceptions, as in the species native to Norway, Illyria, Sardinia, and formerly to the Berkshire variety of the British domesticated pig, in which the hoof is entire and uncleft.

"And the swine, though he divideth the hoof and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud.

He was as the man-part of a Centaur, from which the horse-half had been cloven in some dire Lapithan controversy.

In one was found the grinning head of an ape, in another the cloven foot of a goat, in a third the poison-fang of a snake, in a fourth the clammy fin of a fish.

Old Tycho Brahe and modern Herschel Had something in them; but who's Purcel? The devil, with his foot so cloven, For aught I care, may take Beethoven;

We had slept just below the snow-line, for the long hollows with which the ridge is cloven were filled up to within a short distance of the glen, out of which we came.

A knight rushes in, to make a twelfth, cloven through the helm; but with the blow Hereward's blade snaps short, and he hurls it away as his foes rush in.

F.O.J. Smith shows cloven hoof.

" However, it is an old saying that we must "give the devil his due," and the cloven foot did not appear at first.

F.O.J. Smith shows cloven hoof.

But here Slavery showed its cloven foot in all its hideous deformity.

Did the cloven tongues of fire descend upon the heads of women as well as men?

Did the cloven tongues of fire descend upon the heads of women as well as men?

It alone makes slavery a national institution, a national crime, and all the people who are not enslaved, the body-guard over those whose liberties have been cloven down.

It alone makes slavery a national institution, a national crime, and all the people who are not enslaved, the body-guard over those whose liberties have been cloven down.

Were the writer a kind owner of slaves, he might have replied to Uncle Tom's Cabin by facts of habitual kindness to them, sufficient to prove that the authoress had entered into the region of romance; but in his recrimination he unconsciously displays the cloven hoof, and leaves no doubt on the mind that he writes under the impulse of a bitterly-accusing monitor within.

They reached Second Avenue, and were stopped by the vast swaying crowd of people, a density that could not be cloven.

'His feet are not cloven,' observed the landlady.

" "Rochester I despise for's mere want of wit, Though thought to have a tail and cloven feet; For while he mischief means to all mankind, Himself alone the ill effects does find;

"Well, you see, I betray the cloven hoof of fear, even when I write you.

The ugly disagreements were many and the cloven foot was shown in many ways.