Against the pier-edge, frantically, even perilously forward, her small flag thrust desperately beyond the rail, Mrs. Ross, who had lost a saving sense of time and place, leaned after that ship receding in majesty, long after it had curved from view.

Apart from the rush of the exodus, a youth remained at the rail, gazing out and quivering for the smell of war.

An hour she stood there, a solitary figure at the rail, holding to her large black hat, her skirts whipped to her body and snapping forward in the breeze.

The undaunted driver instantly sprang from his box, tore a stake from a rail fence by the road-side, laid it across under the body of the coach, and was off again before I properly recovered the use of my senses, which were completely bewildered by the jolting I had undergone.

He would order me to bring one horse and then change his mind before I got half across the field, and then he would rail at me for not having brought the first one.

Confound the hypocrites, Birminghams royal, Who think allegiance a transgression; Since to oppose the King is counted loyal, And to rail high at the succession.

" As soon as the launch lay alongside, the young midshipmen clambered nimbly up the side gangway, each raising his cap to the flag at the stern as he passed through the opening in the rail.

He slid one hand along the rail.

He succeeded, finding Dave staring off across the water at the port rail.

DICKENS was standing near the rail, and wore a coat, vest, pants, and a hat.

Just about nine o'clock, Marble and I had got near each other on the fife-rail, and held a consultation on the subject of our prospects.

As for stopping to examine, one who did not understand the language might as well hope to read the German character on a mile-stone, while flying past it in a rail-road car.

2.] This sleeper presents very great stiffness, at the same time preserving its lightness; and the feature which specially distinguishes this railway from others of the same class is not only its extreme strength, but above all its solidity, which results from its bearing equally upon the ground by means of the rail base and of the sleepers.

The rail to the right hand is furnished with two fish-plates; that to the left with a small steel plate riveted underneath the rail and projecting 1¼ in.

A single fish-bolt, passing through the holes in the fish-plates, and through an oval hole in the rail end, is sufficient for the purpose.

Suppressing a strong desire to shriek, and recovering himself, he touched his hat and said, 'Mr. Buckner, will you step up here, sir, if you please?' "'What is she, Edwards?' said Buckner, as he quickly mounted the hammock-rail.

So he counted the rail-lengths, watch in hand, with a curse to the count for his witlessness in failing to have Loring repeat the Boston message to him during the long wait at Juniberg; and when the time for the decision arrived he signaled the engineer to slow down, jumped from the step at the nearest crossing and hastened up the street toward the Court House.

" Kent dashed his fist upon the stair-rail.

" Kent smoked on in silence while the train measured the rail-lengths between two of the isolated prairie stations.

Dimly he discerned a bulky shape leaning against the rail.

He gripped the stair-rail and crept downward like a stealthy baboon.

the sliding rail That marks the old remembered spot, The gap that struck our schoolboy trail, The crooked path across the lot.

We all ran and climbed up on the top of a ten rail fence.

At that time (for my wife, like myself, was an invalid) two eminent physicians, who came out occasionally by rail, were attending us.

My lord, don't let anything I've said frighten you away; for if you have the least inclination to stay and rail, you know the old conditions; 'tis but your asking me pardon next day, and you may give your passion any liberty you think fit.

Perfesser ARKIMIDEES, of Oxford, (and here allow me to stait, so as to avoid newspaper contraryversy, as in the case of DISRALLY'S novel Lothere, I have no refference to T. GOLDWIN SMITH whatsomever, as I believe ARKIMIDEES is now dead,) said he could raise the hul earth with a top section of a rale fence, if he could only find something tangible to rest his timber on.

Sure, ye'r more surprised to see 'im leppin' down the hill to meet ye, like a rale Irish tarrier.

It's an Esquimer he must have to finish off his collection, wan wid the rale Arctic cowld in his head, and two eyes that goes snappin' through ye like black torpeders.

Ye take lots o' wathur, an' if ye want it rich, ye take the wathur ye've boiled pitaties or cabbage ina vegetable stock, ye mindand ye add a little flour, salt, and pepper, an' a tomater if ye're in New York or 'Frisco, and ye boil all that together with a few fish-bones or bacon-rin's to make it rale tasty.

That's rale oratry, Kurrnul!

"Do you know who we air, sir?" cride a long, leen, lank, rale-fence-lookin femail, whose nose looked as if sheed been sokin it in a bladder of black snuff.

Ah, thin, sir," continued she, beginning to cry, "I'll tell ye the rale truth, now.

Yes, the rale words she said when I handed her the billy-dux was, 'Very well, James.'

"Why, it's a rale fortune!

"Oh, Misther Braboy," she said, covering him with a coy glance, "an' it 's rale 'shamed I am to hev b'en talkin' ter ye ez

I've burnt up two or three receipts in my life, and had de bills to pay over; and I'se got rale careful, you know.

"Dat's a gent'eman, a rale ole-time gent'eman," he said to himself when he had closed the door.

er my own, an' couldn' be roun' ter look after 'im. An' dis chile is a rale quality chile, he is,I never seed a baby wid sech fine hair fer his age, ner sech blue eyes, ner sech a grip, ner sech a heft.

* A "RALE" SHOEMAKER'S BILL.

The athletes and members of the School Eleven, dressed in appropriate flannel, were depicted as a rale with their arms crossed over the backs of chairs, and brought very much into focus so as to display the muscular development in high relief.

no rale ha'm.

It happen' dat de ve'y nex' day wuz a cloudy day, en so de cook made okra soup fer Mars Jeems's dinnah, en put de powder Solomon gun her inter de soup, en made de soup rale good, so Mars Jeems eat a whole lot of it en 'peared ter enjoy it.

sez Aun' Peggy, rale quick, battin' her eyes en straight'nin' up.

Mars Dunkin has sol' 'im ter a nigger-trader up in Patesville, w'at 's gwine ter ship 'im off wid a gang ter-morrer.' "Ole Aun' Peggy 'peared ter git rale stirred up w'en Solomon tol' 'er dat, en sez she, shakin' her stick at 'im: "'W'y did n' you come en tell me 'bout dis noo nigger bein' sol' erway?

she wuz rale glad 'bout it.

En I tole 'im ef he 'd des be patien', de time would sho'ly come w'en eve'ything would be straighten' out, en folks would fine out who de rale rogue wuz w'at stole de bacon.

But he had knowed rale dark folks ter hab janders befo', and it hadn't nebber 'fected 'em dat-a-way.

That acute political thinker, Mr. Dooley of Chicago, pointed out at the time that if Mr. Kruger "had spint his life in a rale raypublic where they burn gas," he would have given them the votes, but done the counting himself.

Oh, I was rale vexed for her, I tell ye, but when she took the mattress aff ma bed to protect her sewin' machine frae bombs, I says to masel': 'If I've got to dee, I wud like to dae it as comfortable as I can, an' I'm sure ma Maker'll

Mind you dat wasn't de rale reason, they was mad at de South