Many a worthy citizen of Belfield well remembers his first jacket-and-trowsers, the handiwork of Tira Blake.

So learned was she in all the devices of the pantry and kitchen, that many a young woman in the parish would have given half her setting-out, and her whole store of printed cookery-books, to know by heart Tira Blake's unwritten lore of rules and recipes.

Tira, the older people used to remark, was Tommy Blake's own daughter; and truly, she did inherit many of her father's qualities, both good and bad, and not a few of his crotchets and opinions.

But sometimes, when little Helen proffered her assistance, Tira let the child try her hand, taking great pains to instruct her in housewifery, warmly praising her successful essays, and finding excuses for every failure.

Even the servants shared in the general satisfaction; for though, under Tira's vigorous rule, no task or duty could be safely shunned or slighted, she proved a kind and even an indulgent mistress to those who showed themselves worthy of her favor.

Old Violet, the mother of Dinah, the little black girl elsewhere mentioned, yielded at once to Tira Blake the same respectful obedience that she and her ancestors, for more than a century in due succession, had been wont to render only to dames of the ancient Bugbee line.

Dinah herself, now a well-grown damsel, black, but comely, who, during Cornelia's maladministration, had been suffered to follow too much the devices and desires of her own heart, setting at naught alike the entreaties and reproofs of her mistress and her mother's angry scoldings,even Dinah submitted without a murmur to Tira's wholesome authority, and abandoned all her evil courses.

"What do you mean by askin' such a question as that, Cornele?" said Tira, in a tone of stern reproof.

"But why don't you like her, Tira?" asked Helen.

All to once Miss Jaynes wheeled and spoke to me: 'Well, Miss Tira,' says she, 'can I have a dollar from you?''No, ma'am,' says I.'I supposed not,' says she; which would have been sassy in anybody but the parson's wife.

''Oh, Tira, never mind,' says Miss Bramhall, 'let it all go!'

But up spoke your Aunt Eunice, and says she, 'It's no more than fair to hear Tira's reasons, after what's been said.'

And what did Mrs. Jaynes say?" asked little Helen, when Tira finally came to a pause.

This prudent habit Tira encouraged.

" "Tira," said Laura, with a tearful and blushing cheek held up to the good spinster's, "kiss me, won't you?you never have.

"Now do you mind what I say, Miss Baker," said she, shaking her snuffy forefinger in Mrs. Baker's face; "Doctor Bugbee'll marry Tira Blake yet.

" [Footnote 43: "Qualunque melodia più dolce suona Qua giù, e più a se l'anima tira, Parebbe nube che squarciata tuona, Comparata al sonar di quella lira Onde si coronava il bel zaffiro Del quale il ciel più chiaro s' inzaffira."

There were four or five Tahitians I knew here who remembered the amuraa maa of the sick man, who had his own schooner, his pahi tira piti; but only Ori retained the deep, though misty, impression made by a meeting of hearts in warmest kinship.

À l'instant le derviche tira sa pierre de sa poche, mais ce fut pour la lancer loin de lui.

Très simple, très modeste, il tira sa valeur militaire surtout du calcul et de la réflexion (1611-1675).

C'est lui, m'a-t-on dit, qui autrefois arrêta Sigismond, roi de Behaigne (Bohême) et de Hongrie, et depuis empereur; c'est lui qui le mit en prison, et qui depuis l'en tira par accommodement.

Quella vertù, che già l'ardito Orfeo Mosse a cercar le case di Plutone, Allor che forse lieta gli rendeo La cercata Euridice a condizione, E dal suon vinto dell' arguto legno, E dalla nota della sua canzone, Per forza tira il mio debile ingegno A cantar le tue Iode, o Citerea, Insieme con le forze del tuo regno.

(Sale ahora, tira el sombrero, y se pasea como muy agitado)

ves si·m tira cum diamans, la belha cui dieus defenda.