It must be done, however, if I would write fairly the part which we Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley took in the troubles and triumphs round-about Fort Schuyler; but I will give the story in as few words as possible.

"She's trying to save himhe must be caught somewhere!" cried the lawyer, and both men started at full speed to reach the spot by the round-about paths through the garden.

By the flight of a crow it was about a hundred miles from Anderson's ranch to Palmer; but by the round-about roads necessary to take the distance was a great deal longer.

"You are always for going a round-about way to do a thing," said the admiral, as he yielded the point.

It was decided to march the men by a round-about course to the promontory and embark in boats for the ship.

It seems also to be very inconveniently situated: the bulk of those attending the church come in the opposite direction, and, therefore, if opposed to back door business, which is rather suspicious at a church, have to make a long round-about march, wasting their precious time and strength considerably in getting to the front.

"It is such a round-about road to get to the Harbour, Mary," the uncle slowly objected, after a pause.

But I think we might as well have heard of it directly from you, as from the round-about way by which we have been made acquainted with it.

He had, what Locke calls, a round-about view of his subject; and, though he never was tainted, like many modern wits, with the ambition of shining in paradox, he may be fairly called an original thinker.

He introduces much irrelevant matter, and tells everything in a round-about-way.

On the contrary, standing as I did, six feel one, in my shoes, attired in a neat blue round-about of mate's cloth, with a pair of quarter-deck trowsers, a clean white shirt, a black silk handkerchief, and a vest of a pretty but modest pattern, I was not at all ashamed to be seen.

It would hardly be delicate to ask you to see Mrs. Hardinge, just as you arenot but what you appear uncommonly well in your round-about, but I know precisely how it is with young men when there are ladies in the case; and Emily is a little over-refined, perhaps.

" "Yet, Mrs. Hardinge has seen me often in a round-about, and passed hours in my company, when I have been dressed just as I am at this moment.

Lucy understood me; and, slipping her arm through mine, she walked into the library, saying archly, as she drew me gently along "It is a very easy thing, Miles, to get skirts made to your round-about.

While, in almost every act of contemplation, the modern thinker, as we have just done, projects himself into the infinite, to return only in the endif he is happy enough in succeeding thereinto a limited proposition, the ancients, without following a long, round-about path, found their exclusive happiness within the lovely confines of this world.

A sound, large, "round-about" common sense, keen, eager, vigilant, sagacious, encompasses all the emotional elements of his thought.

There he was, a tall, straight, active, well-made, well-grown and decidedly handsome lad of seventeen, who had doubled the Cape of Good Hope, seen foreign parts, and had a real India handkerchief hanging out of each pocket of a blue round-about of superfine cloth, besides one around his half-open well-formed throat, that was carelessly tied in a true sailor knot!

Despite his promise, he returned to the Blue House often, but by round-about ways and over long detours, skulking from cover to cover, as he had done in childhood days when stealing oranges from the orchards.

He held in his hand, instead of "Cobbett's Register," the "Greenville Republican."He had substituted for his short-sleeved coat, "a round-about."He seemed to have put on flesh, and looked somewhat more contented.

Remembering that I had friends at Barbizon they had sent the others there by a round-about route, and had come on to find me.

His dress was a blue round-about jacket and trousers, with a foul anchor in white on his right arm.

"I must take a round-about method of answering your inquiry.

Leaving Flint on Friday morning, the 26th, a round-about run was made to Albion for the night.

For example, the Senators were to be chosen by the state legislatures, and the President was to be elected in a round-about way by presidential electors.

In the words of the ancient song: In the days of Jael the highways were unused, And travellers walked by round-about paths.