The smallest of "Our Visitors," still keeping hold of Mac, presented the Colonel with the disengaged half-yard of flannel undershirt on the other side, and the speech went on, very flowery, very hospitable, very Kentuckian.

In these hours they saw nothing of the grim and splendid waste; nothing of the ranks of snow-laden trees; nothing of sun course or of stars, only the half-yard of dazzling trail in front of them, and clairvoyantthe little store of flour and bacon that seemed to shrink in the pack while they dragged it on.

At gloaming, when we returned, it was to find them busy with half-yards of the long crusty loaves, plates of jelly, and tumblers, filled with milk on our Boy's part, and with well diluted wine on that of his fellow sufferer.

He seated himself at last before the piano, a full half-yard distant, stretching out his arms full-length, like an ape clawing for food,his feet, when not on the pedals, squirming and twisting incessantly,answering some joke of his master's with a loud "Yha! yha!"

Thou liest, thou thread, thou thimble, Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail,