" "Oh, Anna, Anna, what a cautious little thing you are with your 'mays' and your 'mights;' but you are right, you are right, and I'll go to Marian this noon, and say just what you've told me to say, and not a word more.

"So to give them," she said, appeased, "confirms rather than questions our authority, since no one may 'give' to another that over which he exercises no dominion.

It is sharp at both ends, in order that it may 'back off,' as well as 'pull on;' it steers with an oar, instead of with a rudder, in order that the bows may be thrown round to avoid danger when not in motion; it is buoyant, and made to withstand the shock of waves at both ends; and it is light and shallow, though strong, that it may be pulled with facility.

Or old cousin Ed and May 'Ve gone and had another ba- By, I guess.

Tuesday 7 May '22.

When I tell you that part o' the wedding-dress wot she was making 'ad to be taken away from 'er because o' the tears she dropped on it, you may 'ave some idea of wot things are like.

" "I will do anything for you but that, Isabella," said Mary; "but it is my constant prayer that my Saviour may grant me the temper of mind that becometh his disciple, and that I may 'sin not with my lips' against him.

"We may pray for them, sir, and we dowe may 'ope."

I have eighteen Mays '73, and not one of them could have been made by the stamp that did this.'

In the centre, and nearest to Sir John, as he sat in his usual chair, were exposed all the Mays '73.

All the bars are dented more or less,particularly the Mays '73.

'Now, Sir John, if we come to the Mays '73, we shall find that just about that time there has been no new stamp brought into use.

The Caldigate impression is a little, very littleever so littlebut a little smaller than any of the Mays '73.

But he has, I think, convinced me that that letter could not have passed through the Sydney post-office in May '73.' 'If so, Sir John, even that is not much,towards upsetting a verdict.' 'A good deal, I think, when the characters of the persons are considered.

"Why not?" "Well, you may 'low hit's all foolis'ness, but ef I wuz in yo' place, I would n' buy no mule.

" "There's no 'may' about it.

You may 'a' heerd I bought Golconda a few weeks ago, an' I'm goin' t' mine there this season.

And may' 'Oh, have done, have done, my dear!' cried a wailing, tearful voice; and Sir George, almost cowed by the girl's fierce words and the fiercer execration that was on her lips, hailed the intervention with relief.

Such confluence not only proves the intellectual operation to have been true (as an addition may 'prove' that a subtraction is already rightly performed), but it constitutes, according to pragmatism, all that we mean by calling it true.

Things may 'a' bin agin 'im, miss! . . .

"They may 'take it off your hands, my dear,'" suggested the remorseless Barbara.

Me bein' shyas you may 'ave noticed I 'adn't, as you might say, put it to 'er; an' likewise until the matter was settled I didn' like to tell 'Enery.

He may accumulate all powers of all polytheistic gods, or he may 'loom vast, shadowy, and calm ... too benevolent to need human worship ... too merely existent to concern himself with the petty race of men.'

May' hymn-book, and her diary with the pen shut in as she left it when she last wrote there, three days before the end, 'The twilight is closing about me, and I am going to rest in the arms of my children.'

Come, let us counsel now together How we may 'scape this onward-pressing fate That threatens us so near.