This said, I turned sadly away to find a burial spade, and it then occurred to me that this little incident was kindly meant to confirm my view that cats are susceptible, even to a fatal extent, of spiritual impressionsespecially when conveyed by spirits of "Old Rye.

One Wednesday afternoon, instead of going to Hector, whom he had told not to expect him, he got a pickaxe and spade, and proceeded to dig in the trodden heap.

It was shortand seemed more like a spade.

" "A spade!"

I longed to scramble down and rush after the intruders, only the belief that one of them carried a spade and the other an iron bar struck me as curious, while at the same moment my eye caught sight of a portion of the ground below us at the base of the rock which had evidently been recently disturbed.

"It is a spade the man is carrying!"

With a spade we should have soon been able to investigate, but the earth having apparently been stamped down hard prior to the last covering being put upon it, our progress was very slow and difficult.

He had provided a light, and a spade, and wrenching iron, and was proceeding to break open the monument, when he was interrupted by a voice, which by the name of vile Mountague bade him desist from his unlawful business.

De Chauxville's scalp was torn away by a blow, probably given with a spade or some blunt instrument.

I turned to my friend and as I did so heard a terrible dull sound like a spade striking upon newly turned earth.

The large number of "Peace Societies" which have been established in different countries have done excellent spade work.

A glass of cider, for mercy's sake, "to take the taste of it out of my mouth," as Bill Sykes has it.' 'Where have you been staying?' 'With young Lord Vieuxbois, among high art and painted glass, spade farms, and model smell-traps, rubricalities and sanitary reforms, and all other inventions, possible and impossible, for "stretching the old formula to meet the new fact," as your favourite prophet says.' '

While a man who might be an author remains a spade-drudge, or a journeyman while he has capacities for a master; while any man able to rise in life remains by social circumstances lower than he is willing to place himself, that man has a right to complain of the State's injustice and neglect.'

"I called Jason to bring a spade; but I could scarcely wait, and I found myself clawing likelike one of the dogs, my dear.

We say, an honest man calls a spade a spade; and the French call "un chat un chat."

We say, an honest man calls a spade a spade; and the French call "un chat un chat."

chest, whisked him off with a dozen other of the boys to the depot at Fermoy, whence in a few weeks they were sent on, with the spade-work kinks taken out of their backs, to the first battalion of the Royal Mallows, at the top of the roster for foreign service.

I this morning took a spade, and dug a little grave in the floor of a ruined chapel, near Sir Allan M'Lean's house, in which I buried some human bones I found there.

SPADE, MARK, pseud. SEE Balchin, Nigel.

Near by was a spade after the Chinese pattern, and further off lay a scattered heap of stones, close to a freshly dug hole.

Though the arms get warm from swinging the grub-axe or billhook, or cleaning out the ditch and plastering and smoothing the side of the mound with the spade, yet feet and ankles are chilled by the water in the ditch.

One of the party had brought a spade, and I noticed that others seemed to have come up in no light marching order.

I sprang back and caught up the spade.

He hung the coat on the iron end of the spade, and tied his hat above on a stick; then he went down the ravine about ten yards, faced us, raised his dummy, and marched quickly toward us.

Our knives and the spade were put to use; soon we had a big heap of green boughs and sprigs.

Starting with observations on the characters of eunuchs and capons, as well as spayed female animals, he formulated a conception of sexual secretions absorbed into the blood, settling the male or female tint of the organism and setting the seal upon the destiny of the individual.