The bittern alone responded to his voice, as he flew screaming by; or the bull-frog croaked dolefully from a neighboring pool.

Had the changes of a lifetime been crowded into so brief a space, and were they now four aged people, sitting with their old friend, Doctor Heidegger? "Are we grown old again so soon?" cried they, dolefully.

" "You shouldn't wait another hour if I could have my way; but you know how helpless I am;" and poor Mrs. Snow sighed dolefully, as she glanced about the dingy room and pretty Mary turning her faded gown for the second time.

At that instant, a huge hulking farm-boy rolled into the booth, roaring, dolefully, the end of a song, with a punctuation of his own invention 'He'll maak me a lady.

I don't know," said the exile dolefully, for during his few weeks in the city, he had seen something of the ways of the American who fancies himself desirous of being taught.

I sat awhile, too much disquieted to write, listening against my will for the heavy sounds that told how the dead man next door was being carried forth and laid in the cart; but the thing lumbered away at last, its cracked bell tinkling dolefully; and I found courage to take to my work.

Over them, however, rose the statelier Avicennias, or white mangroves, to a height of fifty or sixty feet, and poured down from their upper branches whole streams of air-roots, which waved and creaked dolefully in the breeze overhead.

," answered Bengal Virden's voice dolefully.

" "Ah!" said Miss Pilbeam, dolefully, "but is it the end?" Captain Bligh put down his knife and fork and eyed her uneasily.

'I will,' answered Lesbia, dolefully.

"How are we to cross?" said Mrs. Seymour dolefully, looking down at her feet.

Want me to hand you over to one of the men?" "Yes, please," said the boy, dolefully.

Pictures, in succession or combination, it would be impossible to conceive, which more dolefully impress the mind with a sense of doom, dread, and mystery; yet every picture is in itself natural, and, while each adds to the intensity of the impression, each is in itself complete.

One thing more, odd enough there: a wire cage, hung on the wall, and in it a miserable pecking chicken, peering dolefully with suspicious eyes out at her, and then down at the mouldy bit of bread on the floor of his cage,left there, I suppose, by the departed Teagarden.

" "I suppose that's true," admitted Pussy dolefully.

"I can't understand it," he said, dolefully.

"It's as sound as the rock of Gibraltar," he announced dolefully.

And the mate, although much touched by his pleadings, replied dolefully: "I cannot....

"They're nane so braw, doctor," said Jamie, dolefully.

he asked dolefully.

she asked dolefully; but he said No to that.

"I shall never pretend to know anything about women again," Tommy answered dolefully, but with a creditable absence of vindictiveness.

Mr. Tredgold shook his head dolefully.

Hanging above them, the great iron pot threw forth a circle of noisy steam around the loosely fitted lid, while the potatoes within were in a high state of commotionlittle ones tumbling pell-mell over big ones, and big ones rocking dolefully backward and forward in the boiling water as though they felt sure their end was approaching.

Katherine shook her head dolefully.