The rest, however, was of very short duration, for at six o'clock in the morning we were aroused, camp was broken up and soon afterwards we started on a forced march of twenty-two miles without a halt, during which we twice had to wade knee-deep through rivers.

We came to a halt and all officers were summoned to the colonel who, addressing us in his usual quiet, almost businesslike way, said: "Gentlemen, accept my congratulations, I have good news for you, we may meet the enemy to-day and I sincerely hope to lead you to the fight before evening."

The cannonading had meanwhile come perceptibly nearer, and in the midst of the dense forest we again came to a short halt.

We passed towards the admiral's house without challenge until the Cossack and Serbian guard at the actual entrance called us to halt pending the governor's orders.

They were so familiar that the unfamiliarity of the hurrying figure of a girl of his own class who passed in front of him down Grand Street brought him, abruptly wondering, to a halt.

After proceeding at a rapid pace for about two miles, her conductor came to a halt, and she could distinguish the sound of other horsemen approaching.

"We will halt there for the night.

Each day, as one regiment would halt for a rest or reach a suitable camping ground, another would pass.

There we halt to-day and stand at a deadlock, so far as the application of our theory may go.

Just ahead of them stood a little white tent, and from the door of the tent two tin soldiers suddenly sprang out, shouldered arms, and cried: "Halt!" Of course the children halted.

A halt was called for the purpose of interring the remains.

He was full of aches and pains when he attempted to walk, and more than once was compelled to halt to ease his bruised limbs.

Arrived at the Monocacy River, about three miles this side of Frederick, we came to a halt, for the railroad-bridge had been blown up by the Rebels, and its iron pillars and arches were lying in the bed of the river.

This process began somewhat violently by the instant halt of Arnold as soon as they were out of sight of the house.

We could not go fast because of the lameness of the prisoners, and they were so spent that we had to halt two or three times while they rested.

But we have outrun our tether, and must halt here.

" Nevertheless he marshaled them forward pretty sternly and they pursued a westward course for many miles before he allowed a halt.

When he was within twenty feet of the crest the hunter called to him to halt, and he did so, leaning easily against a strong bush, while the three waited eagerly to hear what he had to say.

When they stopped at the little stone house in front of us there was another thing noticeable; instead of hitting the donkeys hard on the nose with a thick club, which is the usual way of calling a halt in Palestine, they went to the heads and stopped them reasonably gently.

They may serve to while away some of the ennui of this season of roast, bake, and broil, or be read aloud during the halt of the "march of intellect" men.

But they were bound to go on, and go they did, until at the mouth of what looked like a cave of ice the captain called a halt.

Presently they came to a halt before a large slab of ice.

The bullet struck the polar bear in the side of the head, causing him to stagger back and halt.

They had gone scarcely a dozen rods when the captain called a halt.

Kingston Seymour is a village about 2 m. W. of Yatton, with a halt on the Clevedon and Weston light railway.