The bird-like tamias frisked about my feet everywhere among the pine-needles and seedy grass-tufts; cranes waded the shallows of the river-bends, the kingfisher rattled from perch to perch, and the blessed ouzel sang amid the spray of every cascade.

Only the hawks wheeled, and the wild pigeons crooned; the squirrels frisked among the branches; and now and then a great deer would leap from its couch and hasten into the coverts.

For two days the otter frisked about the dam and the deep water of the pond.

Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burthen of threescore, So blessed a life these thoughtless realms display; Thus idly busy rolls their world away.

We jumped, and frisked, and barked, till we were tired; and then we walked quietly along.

" It made me feel very welcome to have them both notice me, and I was so glad to be out of the train that I frisked for joy around their feet as we went to the wagon.

In an instant she would have frisked away, but an impulse held her tilting where she stood.

Therefore he wrote to strangers on a purely business basisto amazing types lately emerged from the submerged, bulging with coal money, steel money, copper money, wheat money, stockyard moneytypes that galloped for Fifth Avenue to build town houses; that shook their long cars and frisked into the country and built "cottages."

20 The dignity of empire laid aside, (For love but ill agrees with kingly pride,) The ruler of the skies, the thundering god, Who shakes the world's foundations with a nod, Among a herd of lowing heifers ran, Frisked in a bull, and bellowed o'er the plain.

150 By her seduced, in amorous play, They frisked the joyous hours away.

In its boughs frisked and gambolled a squirrel called Busybody, which carried gossip from bough to root and back.

* 28 quoth crooned frisked beech'-wood twain se'rene frol'icked wan'dering LITTLE BELL.

And the while these woodland playmates twain Piped and frisked from bough to bough again, 'Neath the morning skies, In the little childish heart below All the sweetness seemed to grow and grow, And shine out in happy overflow From her blue, bright eyes.

Come on and help me build this sand house!" "Sure!" agreed Billie and Johnnie, as they frisked their tails, just as the cook sometimes frisks the dusting brush when she wants to knock the crumbs from the table to the floor.

Even the bluejays and squirrels seemed to sense its abandonment, seemed to take her as part of the inanimate fixtures, for they frisked and chattered about with uncommon fearlessness.

" THE MULE One morning a Mule, who had too much to eat and too little to do, began to think himself a very fine fellow indeed, and frisked about saying, "My father was undoubtedly a high-spirited horse and I take after him entirely."

They frisked hilariously before the wind, with flying hair and sparkling eyes, and crowded into the narrow entrance with the grimy pressmen of the eighth floor.

As the animal frisked about him, accompanying him everywhere in his walks.

When therefore any one came on deck, the first thing he felt on groping his way about was the cold noses of the dogs pushed against his hands, as they frisked and gambolled round him.

A flock of dolphins frisked around the boat like a cortege of oceanic divinities.

And then, deciding that there was no punishment forthcoming, he had leaped and frisked, and seemed so guileless that Baldy's contempt for his own kind made life hardly worth while.

Briton barked "Wowff!" and Flossy frisked her tail and went off to fish.

she said, stopping, as the pretty little spaniel trotted up to the boy's reclining figure, and began snuffing about it, and then broke into a quick short bark of pleasure, and fawned and frisked about him, and leapt upon him, joyously wagging his tail.

Big gray squirrels with white tails and tufted ears ran up trees to perch on limbs and watch us go by; and other squirrels, much smaller and darker gray, frisked and chattered and scolded at a great rate.

Willy, her feeble-minded child, frisked and gambolled by their side; and altogether, a happier group than they would, I fancy, have been difficult to find in all broad England.