As they pass out the door, good-bys and bows and kisses are wafted backward into the room; for the manners of polite society are observed in everything.

Then, shouldering his pack, and taking hold of Nellie's handone having been refilled with chocolates by Gracethe boy peddler moved off down the road limping, the girls calling out good-bys to him.

One that we love may go upon battle-ground, and we are ready for the worst: we have said our good-bys; our hearts wait and pray: it is his life, not his death, which is the surprise.

Final instructions were given by Mr. Hadley, good-bys were said, and the boys and Mr. Alcando went aboard.

"I have said all my good-bys in town.

The Queen, that afternoon, was seen in the Hotel St. Antoine receiving the good-bys of various friends.

He was one of those amiable, blue-eyed young Austrians who seem a sort of cross between German and French, and the orderly was much such another man, only less neatly made and sensitive, and there were the same differences in their wives and their good-bys.

" Yet, somehow, Mr. Wharne would not be frightened from his determination,until the evening; when plans came out, and good-bys and wonders and lamentations began.

With sharp commands officers were speeding the parting guests; the parting guests were shouting passionate good-bys and sending messages to Aunt Maria; quartermasters howled hoarse warnings, donkey-engines panted under the weight of belated luggage, fall and tackle groaned and strained.

Now it was time for handshaking and good-bys.

There's one nowthat six-foot chap with the Father Christmas whiskers; 'ow's that for a' infant?" As the Frenchmen filed out some of them smiled and nodded and called cheery good-bys to our men, and 'Enery Irving turned to a man beside him.

" They said their simple good-bys, shaking hands over a pile of stores.

Now for the painful details and the sad good-bys." "How long will you be gone?" his wife inquired.

They gave her in charge of the captain, got her a state-room, saw that the new little trunk was put into it, hung the new little satchel up on the wall, showed her how to bolt the door at night, shook hands with her for good-by (good-bys have really no significance for sisters), and left her there.

Good-by.... Aren't 'good-bys' hideous?...

So: good-night, good-morning, Good-by!

Presently the wheels rattled on the road, the last good-bys reached our ears, and I was alone with Aniela.

Their farewells and good-bys mingled with the labored breathing of the locomotive and the shouts of the railway men.

In comic confusion the fellows clambered aboard stormed by their friends' fond laughter at the awkwardness of loaded knapsacks, and their retorting mirth drowned in a new flood of good-bys and adieus, fresh waving of hats and handkerchiefs, and made-over smiles from eyes that had wept themselves dry.

And with a chorus of good-bys the two started off toward the depot.

" In half an hour more the boys had landed the captain at the little pier he had built on his island, and to which his rowboat was attached, and were ready to start back, good-bys having been said.

" With more hasty good-bys, the lads got under way at once.

The child ran after them to the front door, and exchanged good-bys with them until they had turned the corner of the next street, when she entered the schoolroom, and straightway began her first lesson in the accomplishments of life.

Then, with other good-bys, delivered right and left from everybody to everybody, the train rumbled away.

He would make some excuse to Notthe smiled to think he would probably be classed in the long line of absconding tenantshe would say good-by to Rosey, and leave for Sacramento that night.