The shell of this great walnut, we are told, is sometimes used for making little ornamental boxes to hold gloves and small fancy-articles; so you see that mine was not the only glove-bag made of two walnut-shells.

I wish we could see every one of the trees you have told us of, Miss Harson.

"I am sure I told you that they would not live here in the open air, but they do in China; and the ailanthus is a Chinese tree.

" "Well, dear," was the smiling reply, "you have told us about them, and I think you have given a very good description.

Great was the surprise of Edith when Miss Harson gave the little sleeper a gentle shake and told her that it was time to be up.

But the birds without the window told the same story, and the little maiden was soon at the breakfast-table and ready for the day's duties and enjoyments, including their "tree-talk.

Papa told me this morning.

We are told in First Kings that Solomon 'built also the house of the forest of Lebanon,' and that 'he made three hundred shields of beaten gold' and 'put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.'

On the first day of my dining at the table d'hôte, one of those gentlemen told me, when we sat down to dinner, that most of the persons at table were men of business, who were in the habit of eating much quicker than he knew I was accustomed to, and requested that that might not in the slightest interfere with my habits, but that I should entirely suit my own comfort and convenience.

The aspect of these blasted monuments of ruined vegetation is strange and peculiar; and the air of desertion and desolation which pervades their neighbourhood, reminds one of the stories that are told of the Upas valley of Java, for here too not a bird is to be seen.

This the landlord told us was from choice, not from necessity, as he had two trunks full of clothes nearly new.

The squaws told us that no Indian there could claim any thing but what was contained within his own cabin; that the produce of the land was common property, and that they never quarrelled about its division.

The people at the Niagara village told us, that with the exception of two individuals in that community, any Indian could get from them on credit either money or goods to whatever amount he required.

The Indians placed him on the grass to die, where the backwoodsman who told me the story, saw him after the lapse of two hours, and life was not then extinct,with such tenacity does it cling to the body of an Indian.

At the conclusion of the conference, the Commissioners told them that they should have a barrel of flour, with the beef that had been killed for the occasion, which was received with "Yo-ha!Yo-ha!"

Our host told us that there was "a pretty smart chance of deer" in the neighbourhood, and that when he first "located," "there was a small sprinkling of baar" (bear), but that at present nothing of the kind was to be seen.

The landlord, Mr. Elliot, told us that he was unable to accommodate us with beds, as his house was already quite full; but that if we could dispense with beds, he would provide us with every thing else.

361; publishing it against oneself, iv. 396; v. 211; religious truth established by martyrdom, ii. 250; rights to utter it and knock down for uttering it, iv. 12; sick, should be told to the, iv.

Sir, I never before knew how much I was respected by these gentlemen; they told me none of these things,' iii. 8. REVIEWERS.

'Fludyer turned out a scoundrel, a Whig,' ii. 444; 'I told her she was a scoundrel' (a carpenter), ii. 456, n. 3; 'Ready to become a scoundrel, Madam,' iii. 1; 'Sir, he was a scoundrel and coward,' i. 268.

'I told the circumstance first for my own amusement, but I will not be dragged in as story-teller to a company,' iv. 192, n. 2. STRAIGHT.

'Babies like to be told of giants and castles, and of somewhat which can stretch and stimulate their little minds,' iv. 8, n. 3. STRIKE.

Tales from old Judea; Bible stories told for children.

Peter screwed up his courage and told her warily, that though it was well-meant of her, and "'tis you have the kind warm heart, Bridget me dear," still, that propriety forbade it.

My friend Father Peter Flannery, who is my chief authority for this history, told me that often, riding on his sick calls in stormy weather, he met Andy staggering along the rough roads.