" THE QUEEN OF BREFFNY "Dervorgilla was a red-haired woman, and it was she put the great curse on Ireland, bringing in the English through MacMurrough, that she went to from O'Rourke.

Then at Zandler's conditions had become so bad that one morning Jake Hedig, her boss, a young, pale-faced, black-haired man, suddenly arose and shouted in a loud voice throughout the shop: "I am sick of slave-driving.

How about the white-haired man and his son whom I helped to bury outside of Sempst, who had been killed merely because a retreating Belgian soldier had shot a German soldier outside their house?

Before the car had fairly come to a stop the door of the tonneau was thrown violently open and out jumped a smooth-faced, sandy-haired, stoop- shouldered, youthful-looking man in the undress Trinity House uniform.

I saw white-haired men and women grasping the harness of the gun-teams or the stirrup- leathers of the troopers, who, themselves exhausted from many days of fighting, slept in their saddles as they rode.

And all this fine-haired engineering to-night was his, or Meigs'.

Cathmor, the friend of strangers, the brother of red-haired Cairbar.

COLLEAN (May), the heroine of a Scotch ballad, which relates how "fause Sir John" carried her to a rock for the purpose of throwing her down into the sea; but May outwitted him, and subjected him to the same fate he had designed for her. COLLEEN', i.e. "girl;" Colleen bawn ("the blond girl"); Colleen rhue ("the red-haired girl"), etc.

And well do I remember another bright May morning, when I wandered out over the hill, holding the hand of a little fair-haired child within my own.

But how to surprise her?for by this time I was fully resolved to make her acquaintance, even though she might turn out to be forty, scraggy, and sandy-haired.

The other was a small, fair-haired youth of nineteen or twenty years, with limbs as straight and as shapely as the Narcissus, and with joints like the wiry-limbed fauns.

" "But where will he live?" asked a short, curly-haired young man, whom Eph had seemed not to recognize.

Eph laughed, too, and, surely enough, just then a stout, light-haired, rather plain-looking young woman came up to the south window and leaned in.

Anderson read that the body of the golden-haired girl still lay at the Morgue, unidentified.

Hidden away among the back pages once more he encountered the golden-haired-girl story, and although one paper featured it a bit because of some imaginary clue, the others treated it casually, making public the information that the body still lay at the Morgue, a silent, irritating thing of mystery.

You remember the yellow-haired girl who killed herself awhile ago?" he asked.

That's where the yellow-haired girl you hear so much about killed herself.

The young school-master, who, I suspect, was my informant himself, now a venerable, white-haired man, heard the poor woman's testimony; and his pillow that night was wet with tears of gratitude and joy because God had used him thus to bless the poor widow, and to answer her prayers.

Then I crept into bed beside my little sister, and though the air inside had not cooled, and the room was warm, I shivered so that I clasped the chubby, golden-haired little sleeper in my arms that I might feel something living and real and warm.

A lively listener to this talk at the Captain's table was a dark-haired young woman with dancing brown eyesMiss Adith Mallory.

If John had a good time, what did he care if Lizzy did grow into a gray-haired, puckered-up old maid, like Miss Case, with nobody to love her, or take care of her, or ask about her, ororkiss her?The climax was too much for Lizzy; great big tears ran down on the arm of the stuffed chair, and she would have sobbed out loud, only Chloe opened the door, to put up the tea-things, I suppose, and Lizzy wouldn't cry before her.

The "fair-haired maid," who had been the theme of his first poetizing, appears not again in his verses or in his life.

Rose Velderkaust was still younger than he, having not yet attained her seventeenth year, and, if tradition speaks truth, possessed all the soft and dimpling charms of the fair, light-haired Flemish maidens.

His bride returned with him to the melancholy seclusion of their Munster residence, where she bore him in succession two daughtersAlice, the elder, dark-eyed and dark-haired, grave and sensibleUna, four years younger, with large blue eyes and long and beautiful golden hair.

An aged, gray-haired, negro woman came to the door and informed me her father was in the wood shed at the back of the house.