A GENTLEMAN just returned from a tour in Western Asia sends to the Drawer the following account of a little bit of pleasantry which took place in the gala town of South Amboy: A young doctor, clever, rich, pure-minded, and just, but of somewhat ambigufied principles, was strenuously married to a sweet young creature, delicate as a daffodil, and altogether loveliacious.

Outside the Colonel poised himself in gala attitude, and benignantly surveyed our quiet little Main Street in both directions.

"Now, Pris, tell me how I look," cried Kitty, as she swept into the room late that afternoon in full gala costume.

"What gala scene have they prepared for our amusement?" asked Hugh, his dark gray eyes twinkling with merriment.

By the use of mail orders the mother on the farm can obtain whatever materials the particular "fashion magazine" to which she is a subscriber advises, together with paper patterns from which she can cut anything, from "jumpers" to a "coat for gala occasions.

The school-days of the week are so full of holiday spirit for them that, actually, Saturday is not much of gala day.

Small marvel that Saturday was a gala day to us.

If I was a young gala single young galhe'sthe other half," he said, slowly, as he paused"just the one I should fancy.

If I was a young gala single young galhe'sthe other half," he said, slowly, as he paused"just the one I should fancy.

The sycamores threw their broad, cool shadows over the court, and groups of servants, in gala dresses, loitered about the corridors.

The dorures consisted of jellies of all sorts and colours; swans, peacocks, bitterns, and herons, on gala feasts, were served in full feather on a raised platform in the middle of the table, and hence the name of "raised dishes."

Historians relate that in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, at certain gala feasts, the dishes were brought in by servants in full armour, mounted on caparisoned horses; but this is a custom exclusively attached to chivalry.

Court balls, receptions, gala performances at opera and theatre, and military reviews followed each other in bewildering but well-ordered confusion, and Morse, as a man of worldwide celebrity, took part in all of them.

Though I am wont indeed to strict incognito, Yet upon gala-days one must one's orders show.

The grandfather of the present king had a hole bored in it, and liked to strut about on gala-days with the gem suspended around his neck.

The streams wound through ("snaked themselves through," is the German expression,) with a subdued ripple, as if they feared to displace a pebble, and the great ash trees which stood here and there, had lined each of their leaves as carefully with silver and turned them as gracefully to the wind, us if they were making their toilettes for the gala-day of nature.

The winter gala days are associated, in my memory, with hanging up stockings and with turkeys, mince pies, sweet cider, and sleighrides by moonlight.

"The great gala-day of Jamesville has dawned, to-day the great Norfolk steamer honors the town with its presence; everybody (and some more) comes down to the wharf to see the wonderful sight.

After dinner a general "clear" was made in the direction of halls and theatres, a few friends would drop in about twelve, and continue their drinking till three or four; but Saturday night was gala nightat half-past eleven the lords drove up in their hansoms, then a genius or two would arrive, and supper and singing went merrily until the chimney sweeps began to go by.

It was a gala night in Curzon Street, the lords were driving up in hansoms; some seated on the roofs with their legs swinging inside; the comics had arrived from the halls; there were ladies, many ladies; choruses were going merrily in the drawing-room; one man was attempting to kick the chandelier, another stood on his head on the sofa.

It was the gala evening of the season.

The slaves on hearing this good news of freedom burst out in song and praises to God: it was a gala day.

He says that day was a gala day.

The cane grinding season was always a gala one.

It was in every sense a gala meal.