At other times, they found their way through thickets of manzanita and buckthorn, along the mountain's flank; or, winding zigzag down some narrow canyon wall, made themselves at home under the slender, small-trunked alders; and added to the stores that Croesus packed, many a lusty trout from the tumbling, icy torrent.

Following the ancient weed-grown tracks, he led them around the lower end of the orchard; crossed a little stream; and, turning again, climbed a gentle rise of open, grassy land behind the orchard; stopping at last, with an air of having accomplished his purpose, in a beautiful little grove of sycamore trees that bordered a small cienaga.

Opposite the spot where he stood, and half concealed by great sycamore trees, was a small, log house with a thread of blue smoke curling lazily from the chimney.

Butdeep down in the man's inner consciousnessthere was a still, small voicedeclaring, with an insistency not to be denied, thatfor himthere was a something in that picture that was not to be put into the vernacular of his profession.

Standing before the small mirror that servedin the rude, almost camp-like furnishings of the housefor both herself and Sibyl, she studied the face reflected thereturning her head slowly, as if comparing the beautiful unmarked side with the other that was so hideously disfigured.

At a point where the trail turns to round the inward curve of one of the small side canyonswhere the pines grow dark and tallsome thoughtful hand had laid a small pipe from the large conduit tunnel, under the trail, to a barrel fixed on the mountainside below the little path.

Here they stopped again and, while they loitered, filled a small canteen with the cold, clear water from the mountain's heart.

The small hand that had drawn the weapon with such ready swiftness, was as steady as though at target practice.

He saw her take the dirk, so grasping it as to hide it behind wrist and sleeve; but he said only, beseechingly, "Go!" "Stay," said another voice, and at the small opening still left in the wall, lo!

And, lastly, just under Morgan's north side, close on the channel's eastern edge, rode, with her three small gunboats, the Tennessee, ugly to look at but worse to meet, waiting, watching, as up here in Fort Powell, smiling at the scurviness of their assignment, watched and waited Kincaid's Battery.

A league away north-west rose small Fort Powell, just enough from the water to show dimly its unfinished parapets.

The captain's small clock showed half-past five.

The two women could not count them, so straight on were they headed, but a man near the window said there were seven large and seven less, lashed small to large in pairs.

Again the smoke closed in, but the small boat stole through it and hovered at its edge while the minutes passed and the foe came on.

" They saw his ship and her small consort sweep undestroyed over the dead-line, the Brooklyn follow with hers, the Mobile gunboats rake the four with a fire they could not return, and behind them Fort Morgan and the other ships rend and shatter each other, shroud the air with smoke and thresh the waters white with shot and shell, shrapnel, canister and grape.

"Yes!" For the horses' sake the ladies went that afternoon only to "Frascati," lower limit of the Shell Road, where, in a small hour of the night Anna heard the sudden boom and long rumble that told the end of Fort Powell and salvation of its garrison.

Her sergeant, Valcour, was there, with his small fond bride, both equally unruffled by any misgiving that they would not pull through this still inviting world happily.

Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles Street, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years' trial by fire.

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The eclogues are arranged with no small skill and care on somewhat of an architectural design, or perhaps we should rather say with somewhat of the symmetry of a geometrical pattern.

In the former year there appeared a small octavo volume entitled The Shepherd's Pipe.

It is apparently original, and, considered as a romance, would do no small credit to its youthful author.

There is a certain ease in the verse, but on the whole the poetic merit is small.

As in the romance, at the end of which the piece was first printed in 1598, the occasional songs are of small merit.