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Corporal Strides, no doubt has passed his family and his kit through both gates; for, being in authority, our people were hardly disciplined enough to understand the difference between a non- commissioned officer on guard and one off guard; but, there were a hundred ways to mischief, even had there been no gate.

There were many in that region that were steeper; but to a man in the last stage of physical exhaustion, forcing his tired muscles and his pain-racked body to carry him and his helpless charge up its slippery way, it was little less than precipitous.

Here and there were gaps which I have sought diligently to fill up until the whole has been made complete.

There were a number of pitches dotted about over the field, for there was always a touch of the London Park about it on Mid-Term Service Day.

In the poverty which enormous taxes and low wages together produced, there were not only degradation and squalid misery in England at this time, but violence and crime.

But, although the vegetation was the richest of earth, there were neither streams nor fountains to be seen; and the people who came from the hills, with brilliant garments that shone in the sun, besought me to give them the blessing of water.

As Isabel and Theophil entered the hall together, and smiled a recognising smile at Jenny already in her place, she was able to smile back at them, though there were some who thought she looked very white, and found her very quiet when they tried to talk to her.

There were twenty-eight meetings known to have been held by the leading agitators in the Punjab between 1st March, and 1st May.

There were other distressing symptoms in her appearance which the skilful physician

And there were citronslike those you chop up in fruit-cakeand grapes and roses.

With regard to taxes on imposts, he conceived they would be more productive where there were no slaves, than where there were; the consumption being greater.

Henry of Keighley thus addressed the crown in 1301, and there were other instances during that century, until in 1376 the title of Speaker was definitely given to Sir Thomas Hungerford, and from that date the list is unbroken.

There were three or four leddies sitting in the room; and 'Mr. Stuart, leddies,' said the flesher; 'Mr. Stuart, Mrs. So-and-so,' said he again'Miss Murray, Mr. Stuart.'

There were five squares to be measured, and for five squares he hung at MacFarlane's elbow and the plea he made should have won him a hearing.

On the tugs there were more men, besides the mess boy, than on the sail boats.

There were caps, and cloaks, and whips, and canes of Cadurcis and her father, lying about in familiar confusion.

There were the Patriarchs, with flowing beards and in gorgeous attire; Abraham, offering up Isaac; Joseph, with his coat of many colors, thrown into a pit by his brethren; Noah's ark on an ocean of waters; Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; Rebecca at the well, and Moses in the bulrushes.

There were dead by thousands which one might see in other places.

There were at this period received symbols of the person and character of Christ, as the lamb, the vine, the fish, &c., but not, as far as I can learn, any such accepted symbols of the Virgin Mary.

The sun got through, and there were some big pines.

The laws for support of wife and children continue, and there were laws passed giving alimony to the wife, even in case the divorce were for her fault.

There were seven men in the camp entitled to share in this flotsam on their range, the extra steer falling to the foreman.

That soon afterwards Caunabo came with a great number of men to the fort, in which there were then only James de Arana, and five others.

There were covered seats all around the room for those who chose to dance.

It was the hour of recess, and from the school-rooms rushed forth a joyous company of children, plainly clad, and evidently belonging to the peasant class; but though the marks of an early career of vice were stamped on many of their countenances, yet there were not a few bright eyes, and intelligent, thoughtful faces.

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