Come to think, almost the only kindness I've done for nearly a year past was in giving a bag of potatoes to that sick fellow, Po-no-kah, who seemed to me to be a good fellow, as Indians go.

At last, after traveling westward for a distance of ever a hundred milesas nearly as Tom could estimatethey saw, afar, rising from the lowlands, the smoke of an Indian encampment.

Soon a crushing stroke from the back of a tomahawk fell heavily upon his shoulder, but he did not falter; the yells and blows of the savages lent wings to his feetuntil, at last, when the end was nearly reached, a huge chief struck him a blow, with his club, that felled him to the ground.

Old as he was, nearly twenty, this was his "first smoke," and very soon the poor fellow found himself growing deadly sick.

He felt it all the more because, though his jacket and leggings were trimmed with the scalps of his enemies, he had lately been forced to receive charity from the white man's hand, This was when, starving and nearly frozen, he had fallen helpless in the forest, after an unlucky trapping excursion; a settler had found him there, given him food and drink and sent him on his way with a bountiful supply of provisions.

Farmer Hedden was busily at work in the fields, looking ten years older than on that sunny day, nearly a year before, when he had shouted a laughing "good-bye" to Tom and the little ones.

I confess, this was nearly my own case yesterday, on hearing an air from "Sargines;" and had not the funeral oration reminded me, I should have forgotten the unfortunate event we were celebrating, and which, for some days before, when undistracted by this pious ceremony, I had dwelt on with pity and horror.

The young women avoid occasions where an inebriated soldier may offer himself as her partner in the dance, and her refusal be attended with insult to herself, and danger to those who protect her; and as this licence is nearly as offensive to the decent Bourgeoise as to the female of higher condition, this sort of fete will most probably be entirely abandoned.

Pansy was hardly eight years old, and always agreed with her older sister, who was nearly eleven.

I could nearly cry for joy to think of it!"

Soon she began to talk in little gasps: "Oh, PansyI thinkOh, I'm nearly sureyesyesit must be!

When the bustle was all over, and Tom had answered nearly a hundred questions, they all went in to tea.

Nearly half their day would be spent out-of-doors with her and Veevee.

He was with them nearly all day long.

Tom whistled again and again, till he said he had nearly whistled the whites of his eyes out, but never a dog replied.

But Flossy got drowsy too, and if the boys had not stirred her up every day, and sent her off to catch fish, I believe she would have slept nearly all the time.

Then came sleep, and when Tom looked at his watchnext morning let me call itit was very nearly twelve o'clock!

" And not only this,these clinics have demonstrated that nearly one-half the people examined have trachoma or other serious eye diseases, and have been the means of awakening the Government to its responsibility in the matter, so that three government hospitals have already been started in the mountains for the treatment of trachoma.

Alas, nearly a thousand eager, lovable children are turned away yearly for lack of room and scholarships.

For the ensuing ten years I was nearly the whole time in Great Britain, travelling from one end of the kingdom to the other, to promote the movements referred to; still desiring to accomplish the walk originally proposed.

But, spurred and mounted upon the saddle of the great iron hexiped, nearly all the passengers regard him as a part of the beast.

On Wednesday, July 15th, 1863, I left London with the hope that I might be able to accomplish the northern half of my proposed "Walk from Land's End to John O'Groat's." I had been practically prostrated by a serious indisposition for nearly two months, and was just able to walk one or two miles at a time about the city.

For nearly two years the British Armies on the Western Front have been playing for time.

"Nearluncheon-time," reply I, indistinctly, with my head bent so low that my nose nearly touches the little square of bare neck that my muslin frock leaves exposed.

After all, now I come to think of it, I am nearly as vulgar as Bobby.