"Alas!" said he, "my country and my countrymen, how different you are in many respects from what I should wish you to be!

"Benedetto," she said, "I am a wretch, faithless to my country and to my master.

" "Effete or powerful, my country is still able to present an ultimatum when diplomacy requires it," I said.

"Gentlemen, to finish let me say that down in my country we're goin' to rustle the I.W.W. in the good old Western way.

I'm going for my country....

The answer was briefly as follows: "Thy boast is that thou wilt in two short months Ravage my country, scathe with fire and sword The empire of Irán; but on thyself Heap not destruction; pause before thy pride Hurries thee to thy ruin.

It is I, however,' he fiercely added, 'who must suffer the penalty of your disobedience and duplicity, and either die in a prison, or become an exile from my country.

He deplored the alternative much, as he had been born and bred a slave in Carolina, and, by untiring assiduity, had saved money enough to emancipate himself and his wife; "In fact," he added, "I feel this is my country, and leaving it will come hard."

But I could run my Country, I love too To do those things that people in love do.

Ohio is my country, endeared to me by every fond recollection.

It is scenes like this, of which ladies of my country and my state complained in their petitions, some time since, as rendering this District unpleasant, should they visit the capital of the nation as wives, sisters, daughters, or friends of members of Congress.

"That man," says the Doctor, "would be hung in my country."

Receive, gentlemen, my sincere and affectionate thanks for this signal testimony that my services have been acceptable and useful to my country.

I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence, and that, after forty-five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.

They didn't have much fighting in my country.

But there wasn't much of it in my country.

"I am really beginning to look forward to my country visit, and am glad to see that some 'advance season' tops are spinning on the pavement in front of the house, and a game of marbles is in progress in my front yard itself, safe from the annoying skirts of passers-by.

"Could I have rewarded those services," Lord Nelson says, "I would not now call upon my country; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma Hamilton, therefore, a legacy to my king and country, that will give her ample provision to maintain her rank in life.

"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop remained in my country, I never would lay down my armsnever, never, never.

He looked at me almost reproachfully before answering, "Mademoiselle, it is the least I can do for my country; besides my pain is so slight and that of the comrades so great.

Later in the morning they gave us another exhibition of that repression of feeling, of that disdain of hysteria, that is a national characteristic, and is what Mr. Kipling meant when he wrote: "But oh, beware my country, when my country grows polite!

SIR, It is with extreme diffidence that I offer the following pages to Your notice; yet as they describe circumstances which more than justify Your own prophetic reflections, and are submitted to the public eye from no other motive than a love of truth and my country, I may, perhaps, be excused for presuming them to be not altogether unworthy of such a distinction.

They say I'm too old to mount guard, so I must serve my country as best I can.

I shall start for my country-house in another hour.

I have no right to question this beautiful faith of my country, but I really don't see how I do it.