Of its history nothing is known: the proof that Charles Lamb wrote it is to be found in a letter from Lamb to Wordsworth, now in America, dated February 1, 1806, the concluding portion of which, and the only portion that has been printedbeginning "Apropos of Spenser"will be found in most editions of the correspondence tacked on to the letter dated June, 1806.

"There's the list," said the watchman, pointing to a written sheet tacked on the wall "They are No. 15 and No. 9.

" The mystery was solved, when we reached the landing, by a slip of paper fixed by a tack on the iron-bound "oak.

The chapel is a very ordinary looking building, having a plain brick front, with sides of similar material, and a roof of Welsh slate, which would look monotonous if it were not relieved on the western side by 19 bricks and two stones, and on the eastern by four stones, one brick, and a piece of rod-iron tacked on to keep a contiguous chimney straight.

The flame displayed a small sheet tacked on the door.

He explained this to the Persimmon, and tacked on a curious, "Why?" "Oh, nothin'; nothin' 'tall.

"All I have to do is cut the threads where the top is tacked on to the foundation.

" How characteristic of all boys of all times the "etc., etc., etc.," tacked on to the "cakes" item, and how many boys of the present day would bewail the extravagance of fifteen dollars spent in one term on extras?

To write, and write fast, too, is easy enough; but then to read one's own handwriting, not to mention the crumpled notices of the professors tacked on the blackboard in the Aula, is almost impossible without much practice.

They're sure to be stupid, money-making towns, all grown up in a minute, with some common man's name tacked on to them, that happened to build a saw-mill, or something, first.

How could she be resting in an hour which had just been tacked on to her life?

When the search proved fruitless, he had seen the bill pass the House by a safe majority, had followed it to the Senate, and in a cunningly worded amendment tacked on in the upper house had found what he was seeking.

And he showed his captain the religious engravings and postal cards which he had tacked on the walls of the galley.

In order to get it passed at all, a proviso had been tacked on that, if peace terms could be arranged, "no farther proceeding be had under this Act."

In 1829 the fire-box was a kind of separate chamber tacked on to the back of the barrel of the boiler, and communicating with it by three tubes; one on each side united the water spaces, and one at the top the steam spaces.

The ceiling was decorated with an elaborate and most effective design in wooda fashion very common in Srinagar, consisting of a sort of patchwork panelling of small pieces of wood, cut to length and shape, and tacked on to a backing in geometrical designs.

" All the history of the little dancer Ottalie Cheveny was tacked on to Octavia's past!

He is supposed to have murdered several men, and every incredible story fit for pirates of the Spanish Main has been tacked on to himonly of the land, not the sea.

If that had been tacked on the wall in your office all this while, would it have made you feel like giving up, every time you looked at it?" Brown's eyes were glowing.

The king put again in force the edict of Amboise of 1563, suppressing all the restrictions which had been tacked on to it successively.

It's a thousand times worse than all those saints the Spaniards tack on to their vesselslike a line of boats towing a ship up to her moorings!"

The articles of Lord Capel and Lord Peterborough, in the second edition of the "Noble Authors," cost me more trouble than all the rest together: and you may perceive that the worst part of "Richard," in point of ease and style, is what relates to the papers you gave me on Jane Shore, because it was tacked on so long afterwards, and when my impetus was chilled.

The tack on which the Favourite was hove to carried her into the course of the hurricane, or rather placed her in a position to be overtaken by it, as it passed along to the southward and westward; but as the ship broke off to the westward and northward, she fell out of its north-western edge.

Then there might be, as a sort of prize puzzle, a plan of these here recent manoeuvres, with the Umpire's opinion of the whole blessed jumble tacked on to it.

When, after careful observation, there is reason to believe that the center of the typhoon is approaching, the following rules should be followed in determining whether to remain hove to or not, and the tack on which to remain hove to: In the northern hemisphere, if the right-hand semicircle, heave to on the starboard tack.