All farmer; no sodger.

When work was over, it happened that as Luke was returning to his own cottage he met young Larkin, a neighbouring farmer's son, who asked him to accompany him to Honiton, where he was going to 'see the sodgers,' a regiment being about to pass through the town on its way to form part of Plymouth garrison.

"I wonder," remarked Mrs. Varley, as she spread the table with a pure white napkin"I wonder what the sodgers are doin' wi' Joe Blunt.

Them sodgers that are eatin' buffalo tongues up at the block-house as if they'd niver ate meat before, and didn't hope to eat again for a twelvemonth" "Ay, what o' them?" interrupted Mrs. Varley; "I've bin wonderin' what was their errand.

" "Why, Joe!" exclaimed Dick Varley in a tone of surprise, "I thought you were admirin' the beautiful face o' nature all this time, and ye're only thinkin' about the sodgers.

"A few evenings afterwards, I was sitting in the parlor of one of the many little inns I visited while rambling on the banks of the Tweed, when the waitress informed me that 'a sodger is speerin' after the colonel.'

"The Cap'n was an ole sodger," said one of his friends solemnly.

I will never forget the first day that I got my regimentals on, and when I looked myself in the glass, just to think I was a sodger who never in my life could thole the smell of powder!

"'Well, then,' cried the negro, angrily, 'the tory Captain Lewis came to our house last night with some sodgers, and carried off Miss Caroline.'

Saay, would you gentlemen kindly tell us poor old sodgers what kind ov a hell

"Po' li'l sodger boy," he muttered.

"Sir," he said, "it iss to my shame I say dot my sodgers command me, not I my sodgers.

"Sir," he said, "it iss to my shame I say dot my sodgers command me, not I my sodgers.