for faith to take hold upon the Saviour: through Him we tread down our foes.

After a severe fit of coughing she said, 'The toil of life will there be o'er:' and again, 'Thankful I take the cup from Thee,' &c.

"Just as the year closes, I take my pen.

" Burchell also informs us that a Bushman will take a second wife when the first one has become old, "not in years but in constitution;" and Barrow discovered the same thing (I., 276): "It appeared that it was customary for the elderly men to have two wives, one old and past child-bearing, the other young."

The preservation of the cattle constitutes the grand object of their solicitude; and with these, which are trained for the purpose, they run at an astonishing rate, leaving both wives and children to take their chances.

Theal says (213) that if a wife has no children the husband has a right to return her to her parents and if she has a marriageable sister, take her in exchange.

"If a woman speaks two words, take one and leave the other.

A curious detail of Galla courtship consists in the precautions the parents of rich youths have to take to protect them from designing poor girls and their mothers.

The woman's life is of no account if her husband chooses to destroy it, and no one ever attempts to protect or take her part under any circumstances.

Each man placed himself before his gins, and bowing forward with a shrug, the hands and arms being thrown back pointing to each gin, as if to say, Take which you please.

If a man thinks he is strong enough, he will take hold of any woman's hand and utter his yongul ngipa.

"At times," we read in Spencer and Gillen (556, 558) "the eloping couple are at once followed up and then, if caught, the woman is, if not killed on the spot, at all events treated in such a way that any further attempt at elopement on her part is not likely to take place.

Among these same Narrinyeri, says Gason, "it is considered disgraceful for a woman to take a husband who has given no other woman for her."

If possible she will creep into his camp that night or take the earliest opportunity to run away with him.

In his book on South Australia J.D. Wood says (403): "The fact that marriage does not take place between members of the same tribe, or is forbidden amongst them, does not at all include the idea that chastity is observed within the same limits.

After a fight, he says, the women "do not always follow their fugitive husbands from the field, but frequently go over, as a matter of course, to the victors, even with young children on their backs; and thus it was, probably, that after we had made the lower tribes sensible of our superiority, that the three girls followed our party, beseeching us to take them with us.

To take another instance: Westermarck (503), in his search for cases of romantic attachment and absorbing passion among savages, fancies he has come across one in Australia, for he tells us that "even the rude Australian girl sings in a strain of romantic affliction

Finding their screams and struggles in vain they quietened at length, and then Wurrunnah told them not to be afraid, he would take care of them.

It was too late to take revenge that day, but next morning the two set out for the tribe to which the girl-robber belonged.

When this is over, they have to take off whatever clothes they have on and sit naked on the ground while some of the old women throw over them handfuls of paddy and repeat a prayer that they may prove as fruitful as that grain.

"The warrior can take away any inferior man's wife at pleasure, and is thanked for so doing.

This might be a great trial to an European lover; the Dayaks, however, take the matter very philosophically.

If one was in a minor difficulty, too trivial to take to Father Payne, it was natural to consult Barthrop; and he sometimes, too, would say a word of warning to a man, if a storm seemed to be brewing.

I have spoken!" "Take him at his word, my Captain!" murmured Leclair.

" "Take, then, a simitar of the keenest, and cut me down!"

He didn't wait to grab the money, but ran out and jumped on his hoss and tried to get away.

"Hey, Riley, grab Diablo for me again.

Grab everything in sight.

And me with only such things as I could grab up," she added, with a glance at her attire, which, though old fashioned, was neat.

I cultivate the little dears I am after, and hate any one to interfere with me; I humour them and water them and feed them with opportunities till they are ripe, and then I stick out my hand and grab them.

But the others, those whom I suspect, you must grab hold of and never let go, whatever happens.

He would, out of loyalty to his orders from Froissart, have tried to grab the despatch-case and ravish its secrets.

Faith, such flocks of fleas you never saw, they are so plump and fat, And if you make a grab at one, he’ll spit just like a cat.

Grab up a bucket of sand and carry it around here.

" She includes an anonymous poem on Mozart's death, beginning: "Wo ist dein Grab?

Grab one and then the other so ye'll git 'em separate: and keep 'em separate, so they can't talk it over, or ye'll have a peck of trouble on yer hands.

I planned to grab his arms and hurl him back, yelling at the same time to Harris not to shoot, that it was I, Trenholm, and that I was holding Long Jim.

There was a sudden jumping up, a hurried buckling up of belts, a grab for kits and guns, and an unceremonious cut for the gate.

I suppose he expected the boy in khaki to grab his gun and capture them all.

At four o'clock Sylvia filed out with the other children to the cloakroom, but there was not the usual quick, practised grab, each for his own belongings.

"She sot down," said Joe, "and she got up, and she made a grab at Tickler, and she rampaged out.

I'll state my case to her, straight from the shoulder, and, if she doesn't give me a lot of encouragement, I'll grab the first train back to Paris.

I have to keep him marching with his hands up this way, because he might try to grab my rifle.

But the habit tends rather to make ready talkers than thorough scholars; and he who is left to his chances in a collection of books grasps like a child in the "grab-bag" at a fair, and gets, in nine cases out of ten, precisely what he does not want.

Dog glares at baby about to grab his bone.

If I had been one of those fellows who were not used to the water, and who would grab hold of any one who came to save them, we might both have gone to the bottom together.

"Grab your lassos an' hump yourselves.

"Grab the chain!

He jumps to de middle o' de ring to grab de plate an 'Bang'bout four guns go off all at oncet, an Mister Green fall to de floor plum dead shot through de head.

When you hit de bed you jump an grab de kivers, an de witch be gone, like dat.