Why, the people who put on the skates for the patrons of the rink, of course!" One could write volumes on this systematic relief work, the businesslike industry of succouring Belgium by the businesslike Belgians, with American help.

The Landsturm would face counter, flank, frontal, and rear attacks in a most amusing military manoeuvre, which would put those middle-aged conquerors fearfully out of breath and be rare sport for the Belgians.

You have heard the story, which is true, of how some gamins put carrots in old bowler hats to represent the spikes of German helmets, and at their leader's command of "On to Paris!"

There is another which you may not have heard of a small boy who put on grandfather's spectacles, a pillow under his coat, and a card on his cap, 'Officer of the Landsturm.'

In fact that soon put a stop to the practice.

Some time a tablet will be put up to denote the high-water mark of the German invasion of Lorraine.

The puny had put on muscle; the city dweller had blown his lungs; the fat man had lost some adipose; social differences of habit had disappeared.

Men at home of twenty-two or three years and unmarried, men of twenty-eight or thirty years and not long married, and men of forty with some money put by, will, in turn, understand how their own class feels.

I have not put down in the account the sleepless nights, the trouble and anxiety, the privation and hardships which I suffered.

You must indeed fail; that I am aware of, and that if you were to put forth all your power, you could not stand this blow, You must and will fail, and that this very day.

But the last ornament is still wantingmy myrtle-wreathbut that my father shall put on."

The draught was ready; all that was necessary was for him to put it to his lips to imbibe eternal rest, eternal oblivion.

He put the pitcher down, and covering his face with his hands, cried, "Oh, unnatural father!

My father and I put our hope in you, and we both know it will not be in vain.

"You dare not put this insult upon the Council and the town," exclaimed the aldermen, with dignity.

Of course I have my own conjecture on the subject, but should be glad to hear other opinions; so I again put the question to your correspondents.

Filled with the deepest compassion, he hastened to her, and, raising both mother and child in his arms, he bore them to his boat, which then instantly put out from land, and bounded away over the billows with its lovely burden.

Until this moment all her thoughts remained concentrated upon her child, and it was only when she had seen her little Hortense safely put to bed in the cabin and free from all dangeronly after she had fulfilled all the duties of a mother, that the woman revived in her breast, and she cast shamed and frightened glances around her.

Buonaparte declined this mission, because he preferred remaining in the artillery service, and, for that reason, the government of the republic relieved him of his duties and put him on half-pay.

At that time the populace were not always so ready, as they have been since then, to tear up the pavements for barricades, and the revolters, put to flight by the terrible fire and the fierce onset of the artillery, made the Church of St. Roch and the Palais Royal their defensive points; but they were driven from them also; the struggle in the streets recommenced, and streams of blood had to flow ere it was over.

Who could have put it up for you in such ridiculous style?" Bonaparte, as I have said, did not know how to compliment women with words; but Josephine well understood the flattering language that his eyes addressed to her.

The marriage-contract contained, along with the absolutely requisite facts of the case, a very pleasant piece of flattery for Josephine, since, in order to establish an equality of ages between the two parties, Bonaparte had himself put down a year older, and Josephine four years younger, than they really were.

But General Fremont, in similar circumstances, will derive comfort from his loyal heart, and wait in hopes that at least a musket may be put into his hands with which to trust him against the foe.

The salt-works were flooded and spoiled, and all the provisions on the island were so damaged that the inhabitants were put on rations of biscuit till the arrival of vessels from France.

No abuse of that put the drop of savage blood in motion, till the Spaniards began to regard their women with indiscriminate desire.