" "I would like to be, too," said Miss Daggett.

"Oh yes, ma'amexcept that I would like to be at home to see you all.

"And yet not so kind as I would like to be.

So delightful did this man's occupation seem to me, that I can remember quite well when my father asked me one day what I would like to be when I was a man, I answered without a moment's hesitation, 'An organ-grinder, of course, father.'

'Then I would like to be called Terrible North Wind, or Star in the Waters,' she said.

'I would like to be called Terrible North Wind,' said Mary Jane, 'or Song of the Rushes.'

It must be fine to see such joy, such sacred fireLord, but I would like to see all that, I would like to be in your place.

Why do you come?" "I would like to be of some comfort," Paredes answered gravely.

I would like to be generousbut I can't let her go.

Having asked if I would like to be saluted with guns on arrival, an offer I politely declined, my visitor then left to prepare for our reception on the morrow.

If there is one class to whom more than another this book is particularly commended, it is to that large class of boys, between the ages of five and fifteen years, who often think, and sometimes say, "I would like to be

I am an actor out of employment, forty-one years of age, short, stout, and bald, married to a woman I would like to be quit of, and I am writing myself a play in which the Shuberts intend to star me, or in which I intend the Shuberts to star me.

One day he said: "Benjamin, since you have made up your mind not to be a candle-maker, what trade do you think you would like to learn?" "You know I would like to be a sailor," said the boy.

Concerning that picture and my courtship, the most serious epoch of my life, there is a leetle bit of a story which I would like to be a beacon to others; and if your honour is still a bachelor, and not yet stranded on the shoals of matrimony, it may be Werbum Sapienti, as O'Toole, the Irish schoolmaster, used to observe, when in the act of applying the birch to the booby's back.

But still, I would like to be known to fame; Though next to nothing I had my birth, And lowest of all in my lowly name.

"I have got a kind of soft feeling for that Baron, but I would like to be an English duchess.

I would like to be immensely beautiful, the handsomest woman on earth, and to possess the intellect of all the sages concentrated in my brain, to be rich and to be a queen, in order that all the men of the world, crazy with desire, would come to prostrate themselves before me....

"I would like to be," she continued pensively, "one of those animals of the sea that can cut with their claws, that have arms like scissors, saws, pincers ... that devour their own kind, and absorb everything around them.

"I would like to be a spider, an enormous spider, that all men might be drawn to my web as irresistibly as flies.

I would like to be sure, in such times of anguish, that everybody loves me; that there is nowhere in the world a sad dog behind a closed door, that no evil will ever come.... KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (jeering)

Perhaps I have given you an erroneous impression concerningmatterswhich it is too late to treat differentlyin the light of riper experienceand in a knowledge born of yearssolitary and barren years" He bent his gray head thoughtfully, then, erect in his saddle again: "I would like to be your friend," he said in a voice perceptibly under control.

"Oh!" cried she, "when danger threatens you, then I think I would like to be a man to share it with you.

"I'm a woman who has seen trouble, and I'd like to be of use to any of you if trouble should come your way.

I sometimes half feel that I would like to be a man?" "You, Julia!

I would like to be able to stand in the middle of the road and stop a horse as you did!" I laughed and assured her that I knew there were a great many things in the world which it would be much better for her to do than that.