We all gathered round to watch, as Poltonthe high-priest of these mysteriesdrew from the black envelope a colossal sheet of bromide paper, laid it carefully in the tray and proceeded to wet it with a large brush which he had dipped in a pail of water.

XXIV A LETTER PROM GERMANY Mother Carey walked down the village street one morning late in August, while Peter, milk pail in hand, was running by her side and making frequent excursions off the main line of travel.

"Now, Peter, put your marbles in the pocket of your blue jeans, and take the milk pail from under the bushes; we must hurry or there'll be no chowder.

[Enter SNOWFLAKE with a pail of water.

[She forgets that the pail is full, falls into it, and is seen no more.] COAL.

One pail of water is as good as a pee-jacket.

She asked your aunt if she remembered the late spaniel, Ambrose; and your aunt said, 'Poor old Ambrose, you couldn't keep him away from the garbage pail'; and Angela said, 'Exactly, so do please be careful, Mr. Glossop.'

He goes to the sink, takes a dipperful of water from the pail and pouring it into a basin, washes his hands.

Then we took pail and hammer, brush and ropes, and turned our backs upon that hateful place.

The water is frozen in the pail, and I have never known that before in August.

A little boy plunged them into a pail of ruddy-looking water, and from thence into the regulation fish box or basket that finds its way to the Metropolis.

A pail of ice was placed under the table, in which stood a decanter of water, from which he supplied himself with his favourite beverage.'

She was met by Hannah Straight Tree on the upper landing, carrying a pail of scrub water, mixed with ashes, from the dormitory.

In her haste to keep the pail from being overturned Cordelia hit it with her foot, upsetting it herself.

I called the dormitory girls a name, and then a pail of very dirty water was tipped over on my stairs, so again I had to clean them, and I screamed at Hannah Straight Tree in Dakota.

The pail fell downstairs and made me talk Dakota, so I had to come to bed, because I was stuck-up and made Hannah Straight Tree cross.

And I made her push a pail of scrub water downstairs, so she talked Dakota and had to lie in bed and could not feather-stitch the blue dress, for it smutted so the silk would be too dirty.

Bedient had plenty of water, but with a smile he offered the other a pail and pointed to the stream.

The packers hadn't had their coffee when I gave you the pail," Bedient whispered.

Therefore he was able to become a stump behind the tree which Madockawando's daughter sought with her sap pail.

She set her sap pail down by the trough, and Saint-Castin shifted silently to watch her while she dipped the juice.

Madockawando's daughter dipped her pail full of the clear water.

" With the simplicity of an angel who would not be longer hindered by mundane society, she took up her pail, saying, "Good-day, sagamore," and swept on across the dead leaves.

"I am not for a wife," she answered him, and walked on with the pail.

" Saint-Castin gave her the pail, and looked her in the eyes.

The Blorenge and the Sugar Loaf glowed like huge carbuncles, while the pale green light which bathed their bases gleamed faintly like a setting of aqua-marina.

This book was printed a few years since by the pale-faced, intelligent-looking man who is standing behind her chair,Mr. Rees,a printer in an obscure Welsh hamlet, named Llandovery.

that poor, pale face!

Recently, however, we have read, with great regret, in the "Englishwoman's Review," that "it is allowed by all, that the appearance of the English peasant, in the present day, is very different to [from] what it was fifty years ago; the robust, healthy, hard-looking countrywoman or girl is as rare now as the pale, delicate, nervous female of our times would have been a century ago.

Events, they make the dreamers quail; Satan's old age is strong and hale, A disciplined captain, gray in skill, And Raphael a white enthusiast still; Dashed aims, at which Christ's martyrs pale, Shall Mammon's slaves fulfill? (Dismantle the fort, Cut down the fleet Battle

The pale throngs who in forest cowed Before the spell of battle's pause, Forefelt the stillness that shall dwell On them and on their wars.

By night there is fear in the City, Through the darkness a star soareth on; There's a scream that screams up to the zenith, Then the poise of a meteor lone Lighting far the pale fright of the faces, And downward the coming is seen; Then the rush, and the burst, and the havoc, And wails and shrieks between.

Around him swarm the plaining ghosts Like those on Virgil's shore A wilderness of faces dim, And pale ones gashed and hoar.

A still rigidity and pale An Indian aloofness lones his brow; He has lived a thousand years Compressed in battle's pains and prayers, Marches and watches slow.

Kilpatrick's snare of riders In zigzags mazed the land, Perplexed the pale Southsiders With feints on every hand; Vague menace awed the hiders In forts beyond command.

The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone Portent or promiseand gives way To pale, meek Dawn; The coming, going, Alike in wonder showing Alike the God, Decreeing and commanding The million blades that glowed, The muster and disbanding Midnight and Morn.

He thinks of Hilla brave soul gone; And Ashby dead in pale disdain; And Stuart with the Rupert-plume, Whose blue eye never shall laugh again.

And the lorn Mother speechless stood, Pale at the fury of her brood.

When Sunday tidings from the front Made pale the priest and people, And heavily the blessing went, And bells were dumb in the steeple; The Soldier's widow (summering sweerly here, In shade by waving beeches lent)

When homeward footing it in the sun After the weary ride by rail, The stripling soldiers passed her door, Wounded perchance, or wan and pale, She left her household work undone Duly the wayside table spread, With evergreens shaded, to regale Each travel-spent and grateful one.

" Just by the low-hanging skirt of wood The guard, remiss, had given a chance For a sudden sally into the cover But foiled the intent, nor fired a shot, Though the issue was a deadly trance; For, hurled 'gainst an oak that humped low over, Mosby's man fell, pale as a lover.

The pale young Chaplain too (Who went to the wars for cure of souls, And his own student-ailments)he Bent over likewise; spite the two, Mosby's poor man more pallid grew.

" "Where were you, lads, last night?come, tell" "We?at a wedding in the Vale The bridegroom our comrade; by his side Belisent, my cousinO, so proud Of her young love with old wounds pale A Virginian girl!

The ruddy embers showed her pale.

Excited by the grandeur of the service, Marescotti's usually pale face is suffused with color; his large black eyes shine with inner lights.

She is so thin and pale and motionless, she might pass for a ghost herself, haunting the ghosts of her ancestors!

The marchesa's steps are noiseless, her countenance grave and pale.

she asks herself"and with me?" From pale she had turned ashy.

He had a rich, melodious voice, with soft inflections; large dark eyes, that kindled with the impress of every emotion; finely-cut features, and a pale, bloodless face, that tells of a passionate nature.

" When Marescotti had entered, he seemed only the calm, high-bred gentleman; now, as he spoke, his eye sparkled, and his pale cheeks flushed.