"Giles," said he softly, rocking the archer in his grasp, "O Giles Brabblecombe o' the Hills, did I not save thy roguish life for thee?

As it was, the fall whirled him over and over, and by the time he had picked himself up the lighted caboose of the train was rocking past him.

It was an empty scene upon which they looked, with big George rocking back and forth upon a rock, convulsed with silent laughter.

Even I, with my memory of her looks as she faltered down the staircase on that memorable nightpale, staring, her left hand to her cheek and rocking from side to side in pain or terrorcould not but ask if this heart-rending story did not involve a still more terrible sequel.

The road to Jimville is the happy hunting ground of old stage-coaches bought up from superseded routes the West over, rocking, lumbering, wide vehicles far gone in the odor of romance, coaches that Vasquez has held up, from whose high seats express messengers have shot or been shot as their luck held.

I've no doubt he's waiting to get a good show, when the bear stops rocking that tree for a second.

" "Will you make a rocking-horse?" asked the First Little Bear.

Out fell a little rocking horse.

He coughed six times and then he sat down in the rocking-chair by the Window.

" Tippy Toes said, "Grandpa Grumbles, I can tell you which toy I broke first, I broke my little rocking-horse.

" Then Snubby Nose shouted, "I broke my rocking-horse too.

Then Susan said if Bunny Boy did not sit down in his little red rocking chair and be good, she would put him in a bag!

As if drawn by the merry sound Aunt Plumy appeared, and being established in the rocking-chair fell to talking as easily as if she had known her guests for years.

A door opened from the parlor to the room of the musician; he rushed through it, and there, in a kind of shed to the building, which hardly sheltered him from the fury of the tempest, clad in the garments of the extremest poverty, with an eye roving in madness, and a body rocking to and fro from mental inquietude, he beheld seated on a stone the remains of his long lost brother, Francis.

To chide the winds; or hiving bees that fly About the laughing blossoms of sallowy, Rocking asleep the idle grooms that lazy lie.

A ROCKING HYMN.

Noel and Mooka Down on the shore, that same bright June afternoon, little Noel and his sister Mooka were going on wonderful sledge journeys, meeting wolves and polar bears and caribou and all sorts of adventures, more wonderful by far than any that ever came to imagination astride of a rocking-horse.

While I was on it, "pinnacled dim in the intense inane," a strong wind was blowing, and I felt sure that the spire was rocking.

With a skill, which spoke of long practice, she sprang from the canoe, scarcely rocking it, and proceeded to tie the painter securely to a heavy ring in the float.

It was thrilling and tingling through his veins at the very moment when he was lurching and rocking like a beaten man.

This subject may be considered under the following heads: ROCKING IN THE CRADLE; CARRYING IN THE ARMS; CREEPING; WALKING; RIDING IN A CARRIAGE; AND RIDING ON HORSEBACK.

Rocking in the Cradle.

With small wooden cubespicturesshuttlecockthe rocking horsetops and marblesbackgammoncheckersmorricedicenine-pinsskipping the ropetrundling the hoopplaying at ballkitesskating and swimmingdissected mapsblack boardselements of lettersdissected pictures.

A rocking-horse is much recommended for the nursery.

If the young are ever to learn to ride, on a living horse, the exercises of the rocking-horse will, most certainly, be a sort of preparation for the purpose.