And ever at thy season be thou free 5 To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow; Remorse and self-contempt shall cling to thee, Hot shame shall burn upon thy secret brow, And like a beaten hound tremble thou shaltas now. 38. Nor let us weep that our delight is fled Far from these carrion kites that scream below.

These carrion kites.

THE WIND I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!

Books, fishing, lectures, base-ball, French, pigeon-shooting, elocution, kites, composition, nutting, and the academy debating society; and the list of the future demands upon their time grew as they talked, until Ford exclaimed, "Hold on, boys: my brains won't stand any more till after I've eaten a supply of fish.

But, if so, then though ye are jackals, kites and vultures all in one with the skill of chemists added, ye can never extract secret knowledge from a dead man's brain.

"And so, Jimgrim, do the kites foregather?

He turned away with a thought of pity, consigning the body to that strange burial which the Magians deem most fittingthe funeral of the desert, from which the kites and vultures rise on dark wings, and the beasts of prey slink furtively away, leaving only a heap of white bones in the sand.

As Aelian writ of Protagoras and Gorgias, we may say of them all, tantum a sapientibus abfuerunt, quantum a viris pueri, they were children in respect, infants, not eagles, but kites; novices, illiterate, Eunuchi sapientiae.

" "The net's not laid for kites or birds of prey, But for the harmless still our gins we lay.

Great heaps of shells of the freshwater mussel show the source of great supplies of bait; while overhead a great hovering army of kites and vultures are constantly circling round, eagerly watching for the slightest scrap of offal from the nets.

Eagles and kites dart and swoop down, bearing off a captive fish in their talons.

The tiny, dressed-up Oriental dollsboy and girlswho strolled about with pink balloons or butterfly kites, in the short intervals between "Mellican" school and Chinese school, were not baby-actors playing parts on the stage, but real flesh and blood children, who had no idea that they were odd to look at in their gay-coloured gowns and tiny caps.

4. Chinese boys are very fond of flying kites, which are shaped like fish or butterflies or dragons.

Tatini had pointed out to me, when we walked the peninsula of Taravao, a projecting rock, marked with deep-worn grooves, from which the Tahitians once flew very large kites.

Often when the wind was favorable, they intrusted themselves to their kites, and slipping the ropes, flew to the opposite side of the bay, forerunners in the air of a certain Lyonnais of 1783, and contemporaneous with the Siamese who centuries ago indulged their levitative dreams by leaping with parachutes.

Woodfield records the following touching anecdote in a paper communicated to the Ethnological Society, as occurring in an unsettled part of West Australia, where the natives rank as the lowest race upon the earth: "During the summer of 1858-9 the Murchison river was visited by great numbers of kites, the native country of these birds being Shark's Bay.

As other birds were scarce, we shot many of these kites, merely for the sake of practice, the natives eagerly devouring them as fast as they were killed.

No more kites were shot while she remained among us.

"Since when are you a boy?" "Well," replied Sahwah, "I read the sign and I remembered how I used to love to fly kites with my brother and I thought what fun it would be to go into the contest.

"I'll have to confess that I know nothing whatever about the art of flying kites.

"It was just made for flying kites.

The whistle blew and the kites were launched in air and immediately the sky was split with the shouts of the various rooters.

"Because she only needed one to see to get ahead of your kites," answered Sahwah, and felt that her triumph was complete.

" "Another plan of advertising with large kites by day, and pictorial lanterns attached to their tails at night?" asked Marcus Wilkeson.

O fool, for one in thy situation to talk thus is an idle fancy; little mouths should not utter big words: no morebe silentrepeat not such presumptuous language; if any other had dared to behave so improperly, I vow to God, I would have ordered his body to be cut in pieces, and given to the kites [of the air]; but what can I do?Your services ever come to my recollection.