When all was ready, and they could neither of them invent any more excuses for lingering, Conrad Lagrange gave the word to the burro and they set outdown the little slope of grassy land; across the tiny stream from the cienaga; around the lower end of the old orchard, by the ancient weed-grown roadeven Czar went slowly, with low-hung head, as if regretful at leaving the mountains that he, too, in his dog way, loved.

SEE Land, George A. Cooperative literary acquaintance test.

The land he loved; a story of old Narragansett.

Land below the wind.

Land below the wind.

Agnes Newton Keith (A); 14Aug67; R415753. <pb id='398.png' /> Land below the wind.

LAND, GEORGE A. Cooperative Latin test.

MCMEEKIN, CLARK, pseud. Show me a land.

PARMELEE, LYDIA H. The land he loved.

This land is ours.

They left the land.

Songs from Thunder Bird Land.

DARBY, ADA CLAIRE. Look away, Dixie land.

For, where the distant prospect fading dies, And sea and land seem mingling with the skies, A massy tower of polish'd marble rose; There dwelt the fair physician of his woes: Nogiva was the name the princess bore; Her spouse old, shrewd, suspicious evermore, Here mew'd his lovely consort, young and fair, And watch'd her with a dotard's bootless care.

So loud her sudden voice express'd delight, That from his swoon awoke the wondering knight: His name, his country, straight the dames demand, And what strange craft had steer'd his bark to land?

Then was there, in that cuntré, A rich knight of land and fee, Proud, and young, and jollif, And had not yet y-wedded wife.

It was the time of Pentecost the bless'd, When royal Arthur held the accustom'd feast, When Carduel's walls contained the vast resort That press'd from every land to grace his plenar court.

Lanval! 'tis told, had pass'd from foreign strand, And kinsmen none there dwelt on English land; And well he knew that in the hour of proof Friends for the most part fail, and stand aloof:

There might be seen that honourable band Late for the prisoner pledg'd in fief and land; Slow they advance, then stand before the board, Whiles all behold the entrusted thrall restor'd.

But those brave warriors, when they weigh'd the plight And the fair promise of this hapless knight, His youth, for yet he reach'd not manhood's prime; His gallant mien, his life without a crime, His helpless state by kindred unsustain'd, In a strange court and in a foreign land, All cried aloud, were Lanval doom'd to die, It were a doom of shame and cruelty.

" "In the morning, my mind was in some degree reassured with the hope that there are yet left, throughout the land, 'seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him;' and that among these shall yet 'arise judges, as at the first, and counsellors, and lawgivers, as in the beginning.'

I well remember our call upon him, on the second Sunday morning of our sojourn in that land of roses.

In his descriptions, it was a blooming land of peace and plenty, approaching as near to an earthly paradise, as could be reasonably expected.

If a writer finds an effective and picturesque word in an old author or in a homely dialect it is but pedantry that opposes its use, and it matters little moreover from what quarter of the land it may hail, as Stevenson knew when he claimed the right of mingling Ayrshire with his Lothian verse.

In the Scriptures it is mentioned with the vine, fig, and olive, among the pleasant fruits of the promised land.