" On the high road, about two miles and a half before we reached Namur, we met with a party of Prussian lancers, who were returning from a foraging excursion.

None of your "kitchen lancers" for us hamlet folk; we leave that kind of thing to the swells and nobs.

Nevertheless the morning was splendid, with a fresh breeze behind us; the road was hard and smooth, and rang under our horses' feet; and withal I felt, that, if we should see a troop of greaser lancers ahead, in good uniform, we might run 'em down, and bullet 'em, and strip 'em, with good romantic spirit, even.

We had heard that the enemy was at Virgin Bay, and that their lancers frequently passed backward and forward on the Transit road, and between San Jorge and Virgin Bay.

I know a post of lancers a league and a half from here, and before it is day I will bring some of them here.

"Would you be very pleased to see half a dozen lancers arrive here?"

Soon, however, Cole's fusiliers, flanked by a battalion of the Lusitanian legion under Colonel Hawkshawe, mounted the hill, drove off the lancers, recovered five of the captured guns and one colour, and appeared on the right of Houghton's brigade, precisely as Abercrombie passed it on the left.

At the very moment when they were about to retreat, an enormous mass of lancers was hurled on their flank.

Even now, when I doze in my arm-chair, I can see those great warriors stream before methe green-jacketed chasseurs, the giant cuirassiers, Poniatowsky's lancers, the white-mantled dragoons, the nodding bearskins of the horse grenadiers.

I have waltzed for half a day In Milwaukee (U.S.A.), I have danced at village "hops" in Transylvania; I have can-canned all alone In a fever-stricken zone, And I've done the kitchen-lancers in Albania.

The Vanguard of the English, consisting of the archers and bill-men, or lancers, comprehending almost all the infantry of the army, advanced, under the command of the Earls of Gloucester and Hereford, who also had a fine body of men at arms to support their column.

The slaughter was immense; the deep ravine of Bannockburn, to the south of the field of battle, lying in the direction taken by most of the fugitives, was almost choked and bridged over with the slain, the difficulty of the ground retarding the fugitive horsemen till the lancers were upon them.

Presently there was a set of lancers.

The hut just above ours was tenanted by a party of three young Lancers on leave from Rawal Pindi, a gramophone, and a few dogs.

Colonel and Mrs. Maxwell (who had kindly sent us back the tonga on hearing of the breakdown); Mr. and Mrs. Allen Baines, whose dandy had been the means of bringing Hesketh along; and Sadleir-Jackson, and Edwards of the 9th Lancers.

This being contrary to the etiquette as observed in dâk bungalows, I gently but firmly cleared out the neatly arranged toilet things and ready-made bed; while Hesketh was taken over, somewhat shattered by his tedious though exciting day, by his fellow Lancers.

An officer of Lancers, who had ridden through the German cavalry with his squadron, dwelt on the glory of that moment.

Then he had held Ethelyn's white cloak upon his arm, and stood patiently against the wall, while up at the United States she danced set after setfirst, the Lancers, with young Lieutenant Gray, then a polka with John Tophevie, and lastly, a waltz with Frank Van Buren, who whirled his fair partner about the room with a velocity which made Richard dizzy and awoke sundry thoughts not wholly complimentary to that doubtful dance, the waltz.

He liked to see dancing, and at first it was rather pleasant watching Ethelyn's lithe figure gliding gracefully through the intricate movements of the Lancers; but when it came to the waltz, he was not so sure about it, and he wondered if it were necessary for Frank Van Buren to clasp her as tightly about the waist as he did, or for her to lean so languidly upon his shoulder.

They knew something of the lancers there on the prairie, and terrible Tim Jones offered to call off "if Miss Markham would dance with him and kind of keep him goin' straight.

* * VI.THE LANCERS.

When these are used, the Lancers, in our opinion, loses its individuality and spirit, becoming almost like a common quadrille.

* * VII.THE LANCERS FOR SIXTEEN, OR DOUBLE LANCERS.

Two first ladies and vis-à-vis gentlemen begin at the same moment, and go through the figure as in Single Lancers.

this reverend minister extracts her from the wall-flowers, and goes through the Lancers with her in first-rate style, I assure you.