(That is to say- something pun-ny.)

] Wil-lie was of an in-dus-tri-ous mind, and did not love to sit i-dle when e-ven his ti-ny strength might be used to some end.

dear mo-ther, I must be start-ing;" but he did do it at last, al-though it was af-ter ma-ny strug-gles to keep down the beat-ings of his heart.

His mo-ther heard him with a be-wil-der-ed look, as if she heard the pro-po-sal for the first time; and her grief burst forth with un-con-trol-la-ble vi-o-lence as she threw her arms round his neck with an a-go-ny on-ly known to a fond mo-ther.

He had not been ma-ny mi-nutes in-dul-ging in his grief, when he felt him-self gent-ly lift-ed from the ground by a gi-gan-tic hand, which pass-ed him high a-bove the threat-en-ing wa-ters, and pla-ced him in safe-ty on the op-po-site bank.

"Here, sure-ly, is some-thing to be done," thought he; so he leapt up the steps, and tri-ed to raise the knock-er, but it was too hea-vy for his pu-ny strength.

Wil-lie wise-ly kept his charge upon the moun-tain's side un-til the wa-ters had in some de-gree sub-si-ded; but he was a-larm-ed when he de-scend-ed in-to the val-leys to find that, in ma-ny pla-ces, the wa-ter was im-pass-a-ble to his charge.

Those gi-ant hands have been known to ma-ny: their pow-er is e-nor-mous; they al-ways as-sist the will-ing and the good; the re-ward they be-stow is cer-tain; they are the pow-er-ful hands of In-dus-try.

And in the sun-ny gar-den beds Gay a-co-nites are show-ing, And snow-drops bend their grace-ful heads, And cro-cus-es are glow-ing.

"Dear lit-tle Snap, you fun-ny pup

See how na-ture now re-joices In this sun-ny month of May; Still to God from all its voices Giv-ing prais-es day by day.

So, with Na-ture still con-fess-ing His great good-ness, let us pay Grate-ful hom-age for each bless-ing Of this sun-ny month of May.

[Illustration: We all at Mon-keys love to gaze, And watch their fun-ny tricks and ways.]

[Illustration: A bird so fool-ish is the Nod-dy, It may be caught by a-ny-bo-dy.]

See where the spread-ing beech has made Be-neath its boughs a plea-sant shade To screen them from the sun; There George, and Anne, and Ma-ry play, Or read up-on each sun-ny day, When all their tasks are done.

The principal figures of Rhetoric are sixteen; namely, Sim'-i-le, Met'-a-phor, Al'-le-gor-y, Me-ton'-y-my, Syn-ec'-do-che, Hy-per'-bo-le, Vis'-ion, A-pos'-tro-phe, Per-son'-i-fi-ca'-tion, Er-o-te'-sis, Ec-pho-ne'-sis, An-tith'-e-sis, Cli'-max, I'-ro-ny, A-poph'-a-sis, and On-o-ma-to-poe'-ia.

(In The Evening telegram, Herkimer, NY, Oct. 27, 1947) © 27Oct47; B5-2383.

To the Promissory Land, I: NY to LA.

By Charles I. White, revised & edited by the Sisters of Charity of Mount Saint Vincent-on-Hudson, NY, foreword by Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, introd.

(In Long Island (NY) Sunday press, Jan. 29, 1950) © 29Jan50; B5-13223.

In the introduction to his famous romance d'Urfé wrote in answer to objectors: 'Responds leur, ma Bergere, que pour peu qu'ils ayent connoissance de toy, ils sçauront que tu n'es pas, ny celles aussi qui te suivent, de ces Bergeres necessiteuses, qui pour gaigner leur vie conduisent les troupeaux aux pasturages; mais que vous n'avez toutes pris cette condition que pour vivre plus doucement et sans contrainte.'

War of, 208. BRIT'TA-NY.

Manuscript of "Gudrun," 22, 23; Von Otterdingen a, 53; literature, 53; language, Eckewart's fidelity proverbial in, 70; version of Roland legend, 130; Wagner a, 182; more than eighteen versions of Frithiof saga in, 246. GER'MA-NY.

Lüdeger king of, 56; led by Hengist, 208; Arthur wars against, 217. SAX'O-NY.

" In Poor Robin's Almanack, 1676, the drawing of Valentines is thus alluded to: "Now Andrew, Antho- Ny, and William, For Valentines draw Prue, Kate, Jilian." Gay makes mention of a method of choosing Valentines in his time, viz.