"O, God pity thee, my Beltane, for thou dost love me yet, even as I love theethou lonely man-child!

The blessed woman almost "bolted" once or twice, but finally accepted all that was told her with the precious though sometimes mistaken confidence a woman has in the matured judgment of the man-child she has borne.

I wonder if they ever heard The silver scream, in some grey morn, High in a lit and listening tower, Because a man-child then was born.

They put the man-child on the spear, and somebody said to them, 'You will be cursed in the fourth generation after you,' and that is why disease or anything always comes in the fourth generation.

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born to thee, making him very glad!

THE THROWBACK He was born far east of the Rockies Of a pet in society's van; A wine-soaked daughter of pleasure Bred back and threw a man; A man-child who grew up a stranger, Who never could learn the way Of a people who gauge their pleasure On a line with the price they pay.

It was in Newington Butts, in London, England, that the man-child first opened his eyes on the wonders of the physical world around him.

In sum, he is a man-child and a woman's man, a gaze of folly, and wisdom's grief.

There are few men in Mandell, and many women; wherefore a wholesome and necessary polygamy is in practice; the women bear children with ardor, and the birth of a man-child is hailed with acclamation.

"But so long as there is one Tana-naw to strike a blow, or one maiden to bear a man-child, the Raven shall not be plucked!" Gnob turned to a husky young man across the fire.

Never before had his arms held a man-child of his own begetting, and the honours lavished upon the slave-mother showed his boundless gratitude to Allah.

it is as fine a man-child's was ever seen," he pushed her away, saying in a hoarse whisper, "Never let me see its face.

" This man-child is to each mother in turn the incarnation of all the hope of humanity.

When the institution of circumcision was established, Abraham was commanded thus; "He that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy seed."

When the institution of circumcision was established, Abraham was commanded thus; "He that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy seed."

When the institution of circumcision was established, Abraham was commanded thus; "He that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger which is not of thy seed."

But comes by throes of mortal agony; No man-child among nations of the earth But findeth baptism in a stormy sea.

He was simply the male of his species, the man-child of all time, forgetting for the moment all the little lessons civilization had taught, and fighting his fight in the basic way for the basic things.

"And she brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron.

And the white woman prevailed upon our father to make her man-child a Sahib and to let him go to the maktab and madressah-tul-Islam at Kot Ghazi, to learn the clerkly lore that gives no grip to the hand on the sword-hilt and lance-shaft nor to the thighs in the saddle, no skill to the fingers on the reins, no length of sight to the eye, no steadiness to the rifle and the lance, no understanding of the world and men and things.

There it was found by a tiger and tigress whose cubs had just died and who determined to bring up the man-child as their own.

But he, the man-child glorious, Where tarries he the while?

My boreal lights leap upward, Forth right my planets roll, And still the man-child is not born, The summit of the Whole.

In the second story the eagle comes to the help of a woman who is struggling to bring a man-child (apparently Etana) into the world.

But if to the existing number of your suntoshumsthe jewels that hang on the Mem Sahib's bosoma man-child is added, ah, then there is merry-making in the verandas, and happy salaaming on the stairs; and in the fulness of his Hindoo Sary-Gampness, which counts the Sahib blessed that hath "his quiver full of sich," he says, Ap-ki kullejee kaisa burri ho-jaga!