THE POEMS OF THE CRADLE.

THE POEMS OF THE CRADLE.

The ridiculous command, 'Do not touch,' cannot be imposed on him while he is screaming in his cradle or protesting in his dinner chair; and so all manner of thingsreels, rings, boxes, tins, that is to say a variety of surfacesis offered to him, to his great delight and advantage.

It was with no servile intention of securing a look from that little prince of life that she who was not of this world had stepped aside forlorn, and looked at him in his cradle.

And he's taken the bed from under us, and the baby's cradle, although it's said in the Bible as you're not to take poor folks' bed.

The poor creature seems to have had everything taken from her,her bed, her child's cradle.

"To see?" quoth Beltane, frowning, "this day have I seen a dead man a-swing on a tree, a babe dead beside its cradle, and a woman die upon a spear!

He gibes even at my courage, I who was in the trenches when he was in his cradle!

A tender infant of a few weeks lay asleep in the cradle at his side.

Local administration falls almost entirelyand the decision of Imperial affairs tends more and more to fallinto the hands of that dwindling and adventurous moiety which sits tight in one place from the cradle to the grave.

I do not mean that any language must be stamped out, that a thousand languages may not flourish by board and cradle and in folk-songs and village gossipErse, the Taal, a hundred Indian and other Eastern tongues,

Then did Alcmena to her bosom take The terror-blanched and passionate Iphicles: Cradling the other in a lambswool quilt, Her lord once more bethought him of his rest.

When she turned in the doorway, the interviewer noticed that the hand jammed into an apron pocket was clutched into a possessive fist, cradling the precious twenty five cents.

I was occupied until noon at the mill and later, in the field, watching the men cradling oats.

The long train, which for nearly an hour had been gliding smoothly forward with a soothing, cradling motion of its heavy trucked Pullmans, and a crooning, lullaby sound of its droning wheels, came to a jarring stop at one of the mountain stations, and Lieutenant Allison wakened with a start.

When you see his graceful figure and clean-shaven ecclesiastical face in the pulpit of his strangely old-fashioned church, or catch the vibrating notes of his beautifully modulated voice in "The hush of our dread high altar, Where The Abbey makes us We," you feel yourself in the presence of a born ecclesiastic, called from his cradle by an irresistible vocation to a separate and sanctified career.

I have sketched elsewhere the early history of the Rumanians of Transylvania, the cradle of the Rumanian nation.

The cradling boat and the patter upon the roof soon put us to sleep.

A cradle of the deep.

In 1768 he came to the conclusion that most farmers began to cut their wheat too late, for of course cradling was a slow processscarcely four acres per day per cradlerand if the acreage was large several days must elapse before the last of the grain could be cut, with the result that some of it became so ripe that many of the kernels were shattered out and lost before the straw could be got to the threshing floor.

I don't think we gained much over cradling, except that we could work nights with the cows, and bind day-times, or the other way around when the straw in the gavels got dry and harsh so that heads would pull off as we cinched up the sheaves.

Explanations ensue, and it gradually appears that Mirtillo is the eldest son of Montano, washed away in his cradle by the floods of the Alpheus twenty years before.

The ticking of the aluminum-cased chronometer, now marking a little past 2 a.m., soothed him, as did the droning hum of the propellers, the piping whistle of the ship-made hurricane round the fuselage, the cradling swing and rock of the air-liner hurling herself almost due east.

Gradually the cradling swing, the quivering power of the airship, lulled his fevered spirit.

" Even while Leroy dreamed of safety the earthquake was cradling its fire; the ground was growing hollow beneath his tread; but his ear was too dull to catch the sound; his vision too blurred to read the signs of the times.