War lay behind my mare's tail and peace in front of her nostrils.

I eased Violette down until there was not the length of a long lance between the grey tail and the bay muzzle.

And my little sweetheart of a mare tossed her mane and pawed with her front hoofs, frisking her tail about as though she said, 'We've done it together this time.

She was going within herself too, and I knew by the spring of her that I had only to let her stretch herself, and the Emperor's horses would see the colour of her tail.

Then, as we sat our horses head to tail, he threw his left arm across me with his hand upon my shoulder.

An arrow with a fiery tail, shot by one of the clergy of the town church, lodged in the temporary thatched roof of the new choir and caused the fire which did much damage, even melting the bells in the tower.

Others, still living, to whom I owe thanks, are Wolf Calf, Big Nose, Heavy Runner, Young Bear Chief, Wolf Tail, Rabid Wolf, Running Rabbit, White Calf, All-are-his-Children, Double Runner, Lone Medicine Person, and many others.

" One day Wolf Tail was out hunting, and Bull Turns Round sat in front of the lodge making arrows, and a beautiful strange bird lit on the ground before him.

Now when Wolf Tail came home and saw his wife's face, he said, "What is the matter?"

But Wolf Tail said, "No, I love my brother; I cannot kill him."

Then said Wolf Tail, "Climb up, brother, and kill the eagles;" and when Bull Turns Round had climbed nearly to the top, Wolf Tail called out, "I am going to push the tree over the cliff, and you will be killed.

Then said Wolf Tail, "Climb up, brother, and kill the eagles;" and when Bull Turns Round had climbed nearly to the top, Wolf Tail called out, "I am going to push the tree over the cliff, and you will be killed.

And Wolf Tail replied: "He went hunting and did not come back.

Wolf Tail ran up, and said, "Oh, brother, you are not dead.

Then Bull Turns Round called his brother into the lodge, and he threw the sinew on the fire; and Wolf Tail, and his wife, who was standing outside, twisted up and died.

Ápi-k[)u]nni had a friend, another poor young man named Wolf Tail, and after a while, Wolf Tail started out to look for his friend.

When the party started out, Wolf Tail came to the beaver house, bringing the moccasins, and his friend came out of the house.

When Api-kunni had said this to Wolf Tail, he took his clothes off and began to sing the song the beaver had taught him.

Pretty soon he saw a bear digging roots, and he thought he would have some fun, so he hid behind a log and called out, "No-tail animal, what are you doing?"

In-uhk!-so-yi-stam-iks Long Tail Lodge Poles.

There are thinkers, and deep thinkers, too, in Paris, but in society those mostly win a reputation whose minds are nimble enough to cling to any subject, as a monkey to a branch by his tail or feet, turning head over heel.

It is like the dog trying to catch his tail; he does not catch anything.

Without replying, the other turned away and in another moment returned with a chair; whereupon the dog, with slightly waving, feathery tail, transferred his attention to his master.

The last words were spoken, apparently, to the dog; who, still looking up at him, seemed to express with slow-waving tail, an understanding of thoughts that were only partly put into words.

Dropping into the chair that was placed as if it awaited his coming, the artistwith no word of greeting to the manbent over the brown head that was thrust so insistently against his knee, as Czar, with gently waving tail, made him welcome.

With this true tale I have come back to a recollection of the words of the flying officer in charge of the aerodrome mentioned in my second letter, after he had described to me the incessant raiding and fighting of our airmen behind the enemy lines.

" In the Western Counties it is asserted that frost ceases as soon as the mulberry tree bursts into leaf, with which may be compared the words of Autolycus in the "Winter's Tale" (iv. 3): "When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh!

" Some plants, again, have gained a notoriety from opening or shutting their flowers at the sun's bidding; in allusion to which Perdita remarks in the "Winter's Tale" (iv. 3): "The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, and with him rises weeping.

Unto an evil counselor Close heart and ear and eye; And take a lesson from this tale Of the spider and the fly.

A FAIRY TALE There stands by the wood-path shaded A meek little beggar maid; Close under her mantle faded She is hidden like one afraid.

" Then he sang an ancient ballad of the time of good King Arthur, called "The Marriage of Sir Gawaine," which you may some time read yourself, in stout English of early times; and as he sang, all listened to that noble tale of noble knight and his sacrifice to his king.

HANDS, FINGERS AND TOES The size and shape and general configuration of the hands, fingers and toes are details that tell an endocrine tale.

But the teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him.

At such a season, the Tempest, or his own Winter's Tale These two poets you cannot avoid reading aloudto yourself, or (as it chances) to some single person listening.

There they lay; there your appointed tale of brick-making was set before you, which you must finish, with or without straw, as it happened.

None told his tale.

The explanation was made by a hundred voices, accompanied by oaths so bitter, and denunciations so deep, that had not Don Camillo been prepared by the tale of Jacopo, he would have found great difficulty in understanding what he heard.

At the period of our tale, Venice boasted much of her antiquity, and dreaded, in an equal degree, her end.

Gelsomina arose, and, though bewildered by the tale of her cousin, and her own previous impressions, she stood resembling a meek statue of modesty, awaiting his approach.

When this Pickthank had told his tale, the judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee? Faith.

But others, who had seen more of the world, had watched and waited till they were weary, and had beheld no man with such a face, nor any man that proved to be much greater or nobler than his neighbors, concluded it to be nothing but an idle tale.

I simply tell the tale.

"Because, like a Prince in a fairy tale, I'merrather anxious tolive happy ever after.

It is taken entirely from the German's tale, Kruitzner, published many years before, by one of the Miss Lees, in their Canterbury Tales.

It is to be regretted that Byron has not given some account of it himself; for the manner in which he is represented to have acted towards his unfortunate partner, renders another version of the tale desirable.

The plan of our tale does not require us to follow them minutely for, the few succeeding years, though some further explanation may be necessary to show why this settlement varied a little from the ordinary course.

If infidelity be disingenuously dispersed in every shape that is likely to allure, surprise, or beguile the imagination,in a fable, a tale, a novel, a poem,in books of travels, of philosophy, of natural history,as Mr. Paley has well observed,I hope it is fair in me thus to meet such poison with an unexpected antidote, which I cannot doubt will be found powerful.

The European versions of this extraordinary entertainment began in 1704 with the work of one Antoine Galland, Professor of Arabic at the College of France, a Frenchman who, according to Sir Richard Burton, possessed "in a high degree that art of telling a tale which is far more captivating than culture or scholarship."

Now, the fisherman, having pleaded in vain, said that he did not believe the tale, seeing that so huge a genie could never have got into so small a jar.

Gaspingly she told him the tragic tale.