Then a red knight came with gallant leap, right down in the midst of the white forces, menacing in his turn right and left; and Martha drew a long sigh, and sat back, and poised her needle-lance again, and went to work; and it was Sue's turn to lean over the board with knit brows and holden breath.

He was so very sure of me, it appeared, he would not take the trouble to enter the lists to shiver a lance with this elegant young man with the beautiful name, the beautiful lips, and with, for the last half-hour at least, the beautiful tongue.

Away with bayonet and with lance, With corslet, casque and sword; Our island king no war-horse needs, For on the sea he's lord.

No Percy branch now perseveres Like those of old in breaking spears The name is now a lie! Surgeons, alone, by any chance, Are all that ever couch a lance To couch a body's eye!

II It was evening in the home of Miss Angelina Lance.

At Miss Lance's he was Sam.

While some of the resulting essays indicated a haziness in paternal minds, not so the production that Mr. Sloan read in Miss Lance's parlour.

On that condition Miss Lance consented.

"I'm sure you meant us no wrong, Miss Lance; I'm sure there was a mistake.

" Doubly troubled now, Miss Lance departed.

Miss Lance's path to the Hilldale School next morning took her past three post-boxes.

ANGELINA LANCE.

Miss Angelina Lance sat alone every evening of the week.

True, Mr. Sloan had tried to right the wrong; he had called Miss Angelina on the telephone, which he should have known was an inadequate thing to do; he had also sent a ten-dollar bank-note to Willie, in care of Miss Lance at the Hilldale School, together with his warm felicitations upon Willie's success as a littérateur.

" VII It seemed necessary that Mr. Sloan should call at the Lance home that evening.

'Sticking with a lance is a fit fate for hogs.

These mounted. 'March!' ordered the corporal, an undersized, vicious-looking fellow, giving Ken a prick with his lance.

He told this to Roy, speaking in an undertone, as they tramped rapidly onwards under the threat of the lance-points behind them. '

"Give him a lance-thrust, Amos," cried Saunders, reloading his piece.

Buzzby, too, made several daring efforts to lance it, but failed, and nearly slipped into the hole in his recklessness.

Amos Parr, however, gave it a lance-thrust that caused it to howl vehemently, and dyed the foam with its blood.

The hauberk and halberd, lance and casque, arquebuse and sword, were suspended in friendly congeries; and fragments of costly stuff swept from ceiling to floor, crushed and soiled by the heaps of rusty firelocks, cutlasses, and gauntlets thrown upon them.

BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE, SIKSIKA CHIEF.

A lance had pierced his thigh and the horse's flank, which meant that it had been a hand-to-hand fight, and the blood still flowing freely, proved that the combat was not an hour old!

When I got down, I found my way blocked by the 18th Chasseurs a cheval, who, four abreast and lance in hand, were setting out for battle.

" And in Ascham's "Report and Discourse of the State of Germany," p. 31: "He went into France secretly, and was there with Shirtly as a common launce knight, and named hymselfe Captaine Paul, lest the Emperours spials should get out hys doynges.

Never liv'd Knight lesse prejudic'd in that Then valiant Ferdinand, whom I have seene Couch his stiffe Launce with such dexterity As if the god of battell had himselfe Entered the Lists, and preassing to the midst Of steele-composed troops like lightning fly Till he had made a passage with his sword.

Say Burbon first shall breake a Launce with him.

Launce's method will serve our turn.

The good old Albert pants, again To dare the hostile field, The cause of Henry to maintain, For him, the launce to wield.

But "crusions" are golden carp, and when I was a child the Devonshire fishermen used to call the long white fish with argent stripes (whose proper name, I think, is the launce) a silverling.

It is of the humours of Bottom, and Launce, and Shallow, and Sly, and Aguecheek; it is of the laughter that treads upon the heels of horror and pity and awe, as we listen to the Porter in Macbeth, to the Grave-digger in Hamlet, to the Fool in Learit is of these that we think when we think of Shakspeare in any other but his purely poetic mood.