E. A very ordinary precaution in India, to guard the passage of the wet ditch in fortified places, both against desertion and surprise, is by keeping numbers of crocodiles in the water.

The camp was now got into order; the north and south sides were protected by a bank 4 feet 6 inches high on the inside, having a ditch 10 feet wide and 6 feet deep on the outside.

The west side, facing the bay, had a 4 foot bank crowned by a palisade, with no ditch; and the east side, on the bank of the river, was protected by a double row of water casks.

Here it was defended by a double ditch and bank, with two rows of pickets, the inner row being on the bank, leaving standing-room for the defenders.

The inner ditch was 24 feet from bottom to top of the bank.

Arter thatoff and on" "One moment," interrupted the astounded Colonel; "do you mean Hotchkiss the President of the Ditch Company?"

You, the counsel for the Ditch Company?" said Mr. Hotchkiss, in trembling indignation.

Just you talk for me as ye did for his old Ditch Company, and you'll fetch itevery time!

I didn't know you nor the Ditch Company from Adam, but I could have just run over and kissed you there before the whole court!" She laughed, with her face glowing, although her strange eyes were cast down.

It was even hinted that the "case" was the revengeful and preposterous outcome of the refusal of Hotchkiss to pay Starbottle an extravagant fee for his late services to the Ditch Company.

We couldn't climb over the stakes, and if we had got over 'em there was a deep ditch beyond, and no way of getting in or out.

It has a canal, but the canal is a mud-puddle during one half the day and an empty ditch during the other.

In attempting to cross a ditch he fell, with his feet down, and face on the bank; they whipped in vain to get him uphe died.

It was said that he had occasioned the death of twelve of his slaves, by compelling them to work in water, opening a ditch in the midst of winter.

And it came to pass that when I had been cast into the outer darkness, I saw a great ditch which was more than two hundred cubits deep, and it was filled with reptiles; each reptile had seven heads, and the body of each was like unto that of a scorpion.

Believe it, the man that from his boyhood has stood ankle-deep in the chill water of the ditch, patiently labouring with axe and bill; who has trudged across the furrow, hand on plough, facing sleet and mist; who has swung the sickle under the summer sunthis is the man for the trenches.

Though the arms get warm from swinging the grub-axe or billhook, or cleaning out the ditch and plastering and smoothing the side of the mound with the spade, yet feet and ankles are chilled by the water in the ditch.

Though the arms get warm from swinging the grub-axe or billhook, or cleaning out the ditch and plastering and smoothing the side of the mound with the spade, yet feet and ankles are chilled by the water in the ditch.

The refuse vegetables, the washings, the liquid and solid rubbish generally is cast out into the ditch, often open to the highway road, and there festers till the first storm sweeps it away.

Now, a good deal of this refuse is the remains of imperfect cookingmasses of soddened cabbage, part of which only is eaten, and the rest stored for the pig or thrown into the ditch.

Three or four days' work excellently performed; then a bed in a ditch and empty pockets.

" They had been on the march nearly a month when they came to Turtle Creek, which flows into the Monongahela only eight miles from Fort Duquesne a strong fortress of logs with bastions, ravelins, ditch, glacis and covered ways, standing at the junction of the twin streams, the Monongahela and the Alleghany, that form the great Ohio.

The king had great numbers of lanzknechts, the which would fain have done a bold deed in crossing a ditch to go after the Swiss; but these latter let seven or eight ranks cross, and then thrust you them back in such sort that all that had crossed got hurled into the ditch.

The king had great numbers of lanzknechts, the which would fain have done a bold deed in crossing a ditch to go after the Swiss; but these latter let seven or eight ranks cross, and then thrust you them back in such sort that all that had crossed got hurled into the ditch.

And it is orthodoxism that has made the Greek church a blind leader of the blind, and has plunged nation and church into the ditch together.