Midnight found the late stayers still deep in the discussion.

The thief was lighter than any of us, and his horse was evidently a stayer.

At last Gyb up the stayers, among the old postes and pinnes, And Hodge he hied him after till broke were both his shinnes, Cursynge and swering othes, were never of his makyng, That Gyb wold fyre the house if that shee were not taken.

I'm one of your home-stayers."

The king of the said land of Iaua hath a most braue and sumptuous pallace, the most loftily built, that euer I saw any, and it hath most high greeses and stayers to ascend vp to the roomes therein contained, one stayre being of siluer, and another of gold, throughout the whole building.

Thomson was never a very good stayer.

But I'm a stayer.

Well, the race isn't over yet, and I'm a good stayer.

A STAYER.

It is, however, in the four-and-a-half miles' Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, the greatest cross-country race in the world, the supreme test of the leaper, galloper, and stayer, that Irish-bred horses have made perhaps the most wonderful record.

For the following hour, between raptures over being at home, tales of her Southern experiencestold so vividly that her listeners seemed to see them for themselveseager questionings of the home stayers, there was small chance for anybody to put a finger upon exactly what Miss Sally Lane's inmost thoughts might be.

After months of weary waiting and foolish recrimination, that exasperating race of bad starters but great stayers, the British people, had delivered "the goods," and made it possible for their soldiers to speak with the enemy in the gate upon equalnay, superior, terms.