One of them, who was smeared with ashes from head to foot, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and dragged down till they nearly touched his shoulders, and who wore an enormous rosary of Rudraksha berries, acted as the spokesman of the party and stated that they were on their way to Nasik.

Among the things there was a rosary of coral and silver.

"It isn't a necklace," she explained; "it is called a rosary.

When next I was in the little girl's bedroom, I saw the coral and silver rosary hanging on one of the head-posts of her bed.

"Yes, my dear," her mother explained to me, "I got the rosary for her.

" Among my treasures I have a rosary, brought to me from the Holy Land.

But she had never mentioned the rosary, which not only is made of dark wood, but is darker still with its centuries of age.

One day after the rosary of pink coral and bright silver had been given her she came to see me.

At once she exclaimed, "You have a rosary!"

"It shows," she said, "what the rosary can do for religion!"

But it seemed to me that it showed rather what religion could do for the rosary.

As for the small girl, had she never learned to "say prayers," she would not have desired the rosary to say them "with."

And it was not the silver cross hanging on her rosary that influenced her to "say last," for it, the best psalm and "spiritual song" she knew; it was the understanding she had been given by careful teaching of the meaning of that symbol.

Above all, had the little girl, after being taught to pray, not been left free to pray as her childish heart inclined, that rosary would scarcely have found a place on the head-post of her small bed.

For a moment she stood, passing the golden links through her white fingers like a young novice with a rosary.

Behind him, A poor old woman, with a rosary, Follows the sound, and seems to wish her feet Were swifter to o'ertake him.

The king of this country goes naked, like the rest of his subjects, except that he wears some honourable marks of distinction, as a collar of precious stones about his neck, and a thread of silk hanging down to his breast, on which are strung 104 large fine pearls, by which he counts his prayers as with a rosary.

And somehow Lu, who had been holding the rosary, was sitting on papa's knee, as he half knelt on the floor, and the rosary was in my hand.

" I never let Lu wear the point at all; she'd be ridiculous in it,so flimsy and open and unreserved; that's for me;Mechlin, with its whiter, closer, chaste web, suits her to a T. I must tell you, first, how this rosary came about, any way.

How to do it, with no clue but an amber rosary?

But when, in process of Nature, the Asian died,having become classic through her longevity, taking length of days for length of stature,then the rosary belonged to mamma's sister, who by-and-by sent it, with a parcel of other things, to papa for me.

The body was decently laid out, its wounded forehead covered with a bandage, and Eliza's rosary and crucifix on its breast; but it did not, as Marian had hoped, suggest peace or sleep.

LACEY, CHARLES V. Rosary novenas to Our Lady.

LACEY, JOHN C. Rosary novenas to Our Lady.

The long, thin, delicately formed hands were emaciated and bloodless; they clasped with a nervous eagerness a rosary and crucifix of ebony and silver,the only mark of luxury that could be discerned in a costume unusually threadbare and squalid.