And, besides, in this queer, comfortable, just half-waking state, the colonel found one had the drollest dreams, evolving fancies such as were really a credit to one's imagination....

He had the same droll sardonic way about everything.

The drollest part of the ceremony is, that the boys should scamper after the butcher, pelting the sheep, and trying to kill it outright, thus endeavouring to bring ill-luck upon their city and themselves.

"Now I'll give you an imitation of grand opera," he said; and then he launched into the drollest burlesque of a fashionable tenor and a prima-donna, as clever as could be.

" It took a hard half-day's work to bring the craft to land, but at last the task was done and the mechanics were hammering merrily away on the steel with acetylene torch sputtering, and forty natives standing about open-mouthed, exclaiming at everything that happened, and offering profound explanations in their own droll way.

"Oh! pardon me, broder," cried Henri, shrinking back, with the drollest expression of mingled pity and glee.

His countenance was the droll medley of fun, shrewdness, and blundering, that is so often found in the Irish peasant, and which appears to be characteristic of entire races in the island.

In all these manoeuvres, as well as in his daily battles with his brethren, he is one of the drollest of creatures.

The drollest man, a sugar-baker, Last year imported from the till Prates of his orses and his oney, Is quite in love with fields and farms A horrid Vandal,but his money Will buy a glorious coat of arms; Old Clyster makes him take the waters; Some say he means to give a ball And after all, with thirteen daughters, I think, Sir Thomas, you might call.

The circumstance of the gentle Anna having been personated by "Dr. Blair, minister of the High Church," is a very droll one.

But to the point: I ance had a monkey, ane of the drollest-looking deevils ye ever saw.

It was, after a', a queer sicht, and, as may be supposed, I drew a haill crowd of bairns after me, bawling out, "Here's Willy M'Gee's monkey," and gi'eing him nits and gingerbread, and makin' as muckle of the cratur as could be; for Nosey was a great favourite in the town, and everbody likit him for his droll tricks, and the way he used to girn, and dance, and tumble ower his head, to amuse them.

And I wasna far wrang, for the stranger, takin' out a pound frae his spleuchan, handed it ower to the monkey, and speered at him, in his droll norlan deealect, if he could change a note.

" "Well-a-day!" said the old woman, looking rather droll; "it's very strange such a young creature as you should come down here to weep on account of great wickedness.

The drollest part of the affair was, that she had taught her husband, a very young man, thirty years under her own ageto play the lover's part, which he did badly enough.

Benny Bamboozle cuts the drollest capers, Just like a camel, or a hippopot'mus; Jolly Jack Jumble makes as big a rout as Forty Dutch horses.

he asked, with his droll smile.

Why, Manuel, she showed me this afternoon ten of the drollest figures to whichbut, no, you would never guess it in the world,to which she is going to give life some day, just as you did to me when you got my looks and legs and pretty much everything else all wrong.

This device of screening a breach of etiquette by hiding it behind the portly figure of a British Matron always struck me as extremely droll.

Perhaps you had never thought how droll wrong thinking or no thinking was before; and while you laugh with Shaw at your side-splitting discovery, the serious message glides in unostentatiouslywrong thinking is not merely laughable; it is also dangerous, and very uncomfortable.

Monsieur"here she sighed in a delightfully droll way and swept Calvert a courtesy"as an American you are a great disappointment!"

Droll stories; thirty tales.

It ended by his Majesty making Masham his chaplain; and now he has made him a bishop.' 'Very droll indeed,' said her ladyship; 'and the drollest thing of all is, that he is now coming to dine here.' 'Have you seen Cadurcis to-day?' said Lord Monteagle.

What is the drollest of allhe is never one minute late to his meals.

an impossibility to those who have never experienced her whirlwinds of exuberance,and to those who have, a reproduction of the drollest days of their existence.