"Have ye any hopes o' gittin' anything to put on her?" The woman in the bedshe was scarcely more than a girl, with shining dark eyes and a profusion of jetty ringlets about her elfish, pretty little faceseemed to feel that this speech was in the nature of a reproach.

Sighted Mount Hill soon after daylight, rain and squalls rendering it difficult to distinguish the coast; the weather clearing up, ran into Champion Bay, and came to anchor by noon, half a mile north of the jetty, in four fathoms; landed and procured a horse from the Government Resident, and rode out to Mr. K. Brown's station. 28th April.

His blooming cheeks confest a lovely glow, His jetty eyes unusual brightness wore, His auburn locks adown his Shoulders flow, And manly dignity is seated on his brow.

He even showed us the ruins of the jetty built by Alexander, by means of which the ancient city, then insulated by the sea, was taken.

"Leave her at the end of your jetty," I said, "ready for me.

I walked swiftly and silently down to the jetty.

Just across the road, which ran at right angles to the street, the wood began, and a quarter of an hour's walk through its shades would bring us to the jetty where the boat lay.

There were no sentries in sight, and with a new spasm of hope I crossed the open land and neared the little wicket gate that led to the jetty.

But although a ship may sink by the side of the jetty, we must not conclude that she is lost.

I got up at last and walked on to the jetty, and the woman, wot was sitting on the deck of the John Henry, kept calling out: "Bill!"

I remember once going off for 'arf a pint, and when I come back I found 'im with a policeman, two carmen, and all the hands off of the Maid Marian, standing on the edge of the jetty, waiting for me to come up.

"I don't know wot it was, but I 'ad a sort of sinking feeling inside as 'e spoke, and next evening, when I saw 'im walk to the end of the jetty with the office-boy and stand there talking to 'im with his 'and on his shoulder, it came on worse than ever.

Then I crept back on to the jetty, and arter listening by the Peewit to make sure that they was all asleep, I went back and climbed down the ladder.

I stood on the jetty for a minute or two, trembling all over with cold and temper.

An interminable jetty, a breakwater longer than the city itself, was parallel to the coast, and in the space between the shore and this obstacle which made the waves foam and roar were eight roomy communicating harbors stretching from Joliette at the entrance to the one which, farthest away, is connected inland by the great subterranean canal, putting the city in communication with the Rhone.

At 8.15 the ship's pinnace landed the gunner on the town jetty at the north end of the island.

This place, with its leaf-thatch-covered houses and sheds, its creeper-invaded sugar-mill, its little jetty of timber and canes, was very still in the morning heat, and showed never a sign of living men.

They made out a number of big ants, whose still postures had a certain effect of watching them, dotted about the edge of the rude embarkation jetty.

The explorers pulled past the jetty, and became aware of a human skeleton wearing a loin cloth, and very bright and clean and shining, lying beyond.

All the crew had wadding in their ears, and there was an effect of going into action about the whole affair, and first they hit and wrecked the old sugar-mill, and then they smashed the abandoned store behind the jetty.

(PAGE 110.) musoir, the head of a pier or jetty. vertes couleuvres.

As we shall refer all longitudes during this cruise to Scott's Jetty, Swan River, I may here state that the approximate longitude of that place is considered to be 115 degrees 47 minutes East of Greenwich.)

Among the few improvements that had taken place since our visit in 1836, were a jetty and a government storehouse.

Far below, the jetty river trembled here, there, with starlight.

Here a small sandy bay with a sufficient depth of water close inshore, was, after a minute examination by Captain Stanley, considered to be well adapted to the running out of a jetty, alongside of which the largest steamer could lie in perfect safety.