But sitting on that very bundle of canvas, stretching his lean hands over the stove, with Samuel's cat on his lap, was the "Old Hoss"Abraham Rose!

Dismounting quickly, he in sorrow placed The head of Dárá on his lap, and wept In bitterness of soul, to see that form Mangled with ghastly wounds.

the Admiral had asked coaxingly once when Nancy was eight and on his lap as usual.

If he see a snake unkilled, he fears a mischief; if the salt fall towards him, he looks pale and red, and is not quiet till one of the waiters have poured wine on his lap; and when he sneezeth, thinks them not his friends that uncover not.

When the Lord would show who was greatest in his kingdom, he took a little child on his lap.

The Prince often persuades a lady to sit on this sleigh on his lap and descend together; and this no doubt serves to break the ice of many an amorous intrigue.

He drank a little, and sat watching the dancing, with Leopoldine on his lap.

He was sitting on a chair, his hands fallen on his lap, the tears running down his face.

She drove him home, his tool case on his lap.

Patrick lowered himself into the small seat, holding his AWOL bag on his lap.

Long fingers wrapped around the neck of the banjo he was holding upright on his lap.

He rested it on his lap and watched cars drive in.

So he took up the body, and sitting down by the fire, he laid it on his lap and rubbed the arms that the blood might circulate again.

And glancing down to the head on his lap, he shivered with superstitious wonder.

One man took little Nora on his lap and almost cried.

At once a muballir* on his left opened a copy of the Koran on a cushion on his lap and began to read from it in a nasal singsong.

" When Prudence came in from the blossoming peach-trees that night her father called her to him to sit on his lap in the dusk while the crickets sang, and grow sleepy as had been her baby habit.

The first objects of which he became aware were his own hands clasped on his lap before him, and the cloth cuffs from which they emerged; and it was these latter that puzzled him.

And Vahuka, who was the king in disguise, recognising Indrasena with her brother, advanced hastily, and embracing them, took them up on his lap.

He drew her down on his lap, and said, "Dearest wife, that is hardly practicable.

The floor was thickly covered with mud and dirt, in the midst of which, near the fire, was seated an old Indian with a pan of boiled corn on his lap, which he was scooping up with both hands and devouring with the utmost voracity.

And Keith was allowed to stay up quite late, and when he was in bed at last, and almost asleep, he thought he saw his father in the big easy chair by the window, with the mother seated on his lap kissing him.

His heart swelled, and with a rush that nearly upset his little table, he made for his father in the parlour, crawled up on his lap, put both arms about his neck, and kissed him.

A song was heard from within; pretty children played around their old grandfather, who sat with the Bible on his lap and read about God, and eternal life, and spoke of the spring that would come again: he spoke of the forest that would renew its green leaves, of the roses that would flower, of the nightingales that would sing, and of the beautiful that would again be paramount.

" EMBARRASSING SITUATIONS A young gentleman was spending the week-end at little Willie's cottage at Atlantic City, and on Sunday evening after dinner, there being a scarcity of chairs on the crowded piazza, the young gentleman took Willie on his lap.