I found most of the robins cowering on the lee side of the larger branches where the snow could not fall upon them, while two or three of the more enterprising were making desperate efforts to reach the mistletoe berries by clinging nervously to the under side of the snow-crowned masses, back downward, like woodpeckers.

"Mistletoe, eh?" remarked the stranger.

They promised mistletoe, snapdragon, and Sir Roger de Coverley.

They knew of our coming, and had swept the church and grounds clean, and ornamented the altar with mistletoe.

He held up a large spray of mistletoe.

The mistletoe, in its place of honor among the evergreens, brought forth many expressions of admiration.

"I think that's a pretty nice piece of mistletoe," he said slowly.

The favors were knots of mistletoe and holly, and a roasted goose held the place of honor upon the table.

"He is longing to waltz you under the mistletoe!" He strode across to his wife.

And regardless of mistletoe, there was a rush across to the windows, while Nelson Randolph went to welcome his guests.

" Starling was nearest, and took the package; but Miss Crilly, a little upset at being the owner of the first name called, jumped up and hurried across the room for her present, unheedful of mistletoe and the eyes that were watching her.

I am glad to share my rewards with you, so go ahead, David and Blue and Doodles, and obtain as much tribute as possible under the mistletoe!"

But Christmas presents are bewitching things, and it was not long before mistletoe was all forgotten in the beauties of fine needlework, the mysteries of new stitches, and the attractions of dainty knickknacks.

A short but exciting race she led him before dodging behind Miss Mullaly's chair and asking breathlessly if the mistletoe was all over the room.

he replied, leading her under the mistletoe and claiming his reward.

"I spied the mistletoe when I was coming home, and it set me to wondering if it wouldn't help out; so I brought it along.

She had been especially careful to hang no scrap of mistletoe, which might have afforded Mr. Whitelaw an excuse for a practical display of his gallantry; a fact which did not escape the playful observation of his cousin, Mrs. Tadman.

"Young ladies don't often forget to put up a bit of mistletoe," said this matron, "when there's a chance of them they like being by;" and she glanced in a meaning way from Ellen to the master of Wyncomb Farm.

John Mistletoe.

SEE Boswell, James. MORLEY, HELEN F. John Mistletoe.

But the fact that in both the mistletoe was a sacred plant affords a violent presumption that there must have been a common point from which both religions started.

According to Toland (Works, i. 74), the festival of searching, cutting, and consecrating the mistletoe, took place on the 10th of March, or New Year's day.

He was an accurate observer of Nature: he notes the markings of the violet and the daisy; the haunts of the honeysuckle, the mistletoe, and the woodbine.

Her principal works are "In the Reign of Terror" and "Jephthah's Vow," both in the Liverpool Permanent Collection; "The Mistletoe Bough"; "Arrested, or the Nihilist"; "Flight," exhibited at Royal Academy in 1901; "King Edward VII.," 1902.

At the hotel I put up holly and mistletoe, and produced from my trunks a real Christmas pudding that my mother had made.