And she robbed herself of necessary sleep to read Stoddard's books, to study them, to wring from them the last precious crumb of help or information that they might have for her.

In the poorhouse he would have been only one more derelict; but here he stood alone to be stared at and pitied and thrown a sickly-satisfying crumb.

Flatten and trim the cutlets of a good shape, egg and bread crumb them, broil them over a clear fire, pile them high in the dish, and pour under them the gravy made from the bones, which should be strained, flavoured, and thickened.

INGREDIENTS.Odd pieces of crust or crumb of bread; to every quart allow 1/2 teaspoonful of salt, 1 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg, 3 oz. of moist sugar, 1/2 lb. of currants, 1-1/4 oz. of butter.

When he had finished the last crumb Reginald told him Mrs. Corbett's decree regarding Sunday work, and found that Randolph was prepared to abstain from all forms of labor on all days in the week if she wished it.

I sent for the watchman, Mr. Crumb, to come with a saw, and cut off the upper limbs.

Not a drop was spilled, not a crumb was dropped.

I have lived near by them and in them, time after time, and have gathered thus many a crumb of faery lore.

lenitive, restorative &c (remedy) 662; cushion &c 215; crumb of comfort, balm in Gilead.

She brushed a wafer crumb from her knee.

When every drop was finished and every crumb licked up, Growler said to Prowler, "Time for a nap, old boy," and without so much as a look in the children's direction the two rude fellows turned tail and marched off arm in arm to their bunks.

If he could once see that the icy lustre in her eyes had become a soft, calm light,that her soul was at peace with all about her and with Him above,this crumb from the children's table was enough for him, as it was for the Syro-Phoenician woman who asked that the dark spirit might go out from her daughter.

"I must prepare for a winter to come, I shall be glad of a home and a crumb, When my frail form out of doors would be numb, And I in the snow-storm should die.

The serene silence was seldom broken save by the cry of an eagle or an osprey, high overhead, the chirping of the chickadee flitting about the camp to find a crumb, or the complaining note of the Canada jay, most friendly of all wild birds, seeking for the scraps of venison we used to throw out for him.

"Rather propitiate the offended deities by a crumb tossed over the shoulder," added I. "Over the left?" asked the Baron, to intimate his knowledge of another idiom, together with a reproof for my gaucherie.

The official then drank a crumb, or breathed some beer, or something of that sort, and the discussion terminated.

There's not a drop or crumb in the boat.

I had another crumb of comfort to-day.

Minister, Rev. H.S. Williams, Athens, Ala. TRINITY SCHOOL Teachers, Miss M.F. Wells Ann Arbor, Mich. " Villa D. Crumb, Norwich, N.Y. " Alice M. Whitsey, Pover, Ohio. " Lila McClelland, Norwood, N.Y. MARION.

He tasted a little piece, a very little piece indeeda mere crumb.

From the land unto the cellar, Clean the peasant's hut he keeps, With a coarse and clumsy besom Every tiny crumb he sweeps.

We fell to with a vengeance and at the end of a quarter-hour hardly a crumb remained.

Ruth got up and took away the dishes, and went round with the crumb-knife, and did not forget to fill the tumblers, nor to put on father's cheese.

The meeting was opened in the usual order, by passing to each a crumb of bread and a sip of water, in token of Christian regard.

A high, keen spirit was his wife; she did not bend or break; a stroke that would have beggared another took no crumb from her cloth; she let the right in warehouses and wharves lie by, and lie by, and each year it paid her sterling income.