He was almost as great a moss-trooper as myself, and, with Elspeth for company, had visited near every settlement in the dominion.

The party stopped, and came to some discussion, which presently ended, my lord putting his horse into a canter after taking off his hat to the officer, who rode alongside him step for step, the trooper accompanying him falling back, and riding with my lord's two men.

Fire!" cries out Father Holt, sending another shot after the trooper, but the two servants were too much surprised to use their pieces, and my lord calling to them to hold their hands, the fellow got away.

, the rest of the page being charred by the fire, and asked of the lawyer"Shall I go on, sir?" The lawyer said, "This boy is deeper than he seems: who knows that he is not laughing at us?" "Let's have in Dick the Scholar," cried Captain Westbury, laughing, and he called to a trooper out of the window, "Ho, Dick, come in here and construe.

" There must have been something touching in the child's voice, or in this description of his solitude, for the Captain looked at him very good-naturedly, and the trooper called Steele put his hand kindly on the lad's head, and said some words in the Latin language.

"I said I was not ignorant of misfortune myself, and had learned to succor the miserable, and that's not your trade, Mr. Sheepskin," said the trooper.

Hearing that he had learned them from a Jesuit, in the praise of whom and whose goodness Harry was never tired of speaking, Dick, rather to the boy's surprise, showed a great deal of theological science, and knowledge of the points at issue between the Catholic and Protestant churches; so that he and Harry would have hours of controversy together, with which conversations the long days of the trooper's stay at Castlewood were whiled away.

Tom redressed the wounds of the trooper and examined the splints on the arm to make sure they had not become disarranged during the night in the delirium of the sick man.

A trooper did his work, and that ended it.

By living rider again And at regimental formation Of the Seventh Cavalry, Comanche draped in mourning and led By a trooper of Company Shall parade with the Regiment!

Swift, in The Battle of the Books, brings in this poet as the meanest common trooper that he can mention in his modern army.

Well, well, Sanford, congratulations; old state trooper bearing a skeleton.

She had a trooper's hat on, worn jauntily on one side, crossed sabres in front, and her shoulders were concealed by a gray cavalry cape.

Then the trooper entered, his heels clicking together as he saluted just within the doorway.

Dismounting, my companion handed the reins of both horses to a trooper, and led the way in.

Be careful no prowling trooper stumbles on you; keep the men still.

CHAPTER XXII MISS WILLIFRED DECLARES HERSELF I glanced at the various rooms up stairs, but nothing seemed exactly suitable for our purpose, and, finally, taking a trooper along to hold a light, explored the basement with better results.

THE GHOST OF THE HEATH WAS LAID KING CHRISTIAN IV GUSTAV ADOLF, THE SNOW-KING KING AND SAILOR, HEROES OF COPENHAGEN THE TROOPER WHO WON A WAR ALONE CARL LINNÉ, KING OF THE FLOWERS NIELS FINSEN, THE WOLF-SLAYER A KNIGHT ERRANT OF THE SEA The Eighteenth Century broke upon a noisy family quarrel in the north of Europe.

THE TROOPER WHO WON A WAR ALONE

Jens Kofoed was the name of a trooper who served in the disastrous war of Denmark against Sweden in Karl Gustav's day.

On Twelfth Night the little ones were christened, and then the trooper bethought himself of his promise to get back soon.

The Hasle trooper and parson were the leaders; but their secret was well kept.

Early in December, 1658, just a year after Jens Kofoed, the trooper, had set out for his home on furlough, the governor went to Rönne, the chief city in the island, to start off a ship for the reinforcements.

But the ex-trooper, now Commandant, knew that a day of reckoning was coming, and kept a sharp lookout.

In the home of one of them in Brooklyn, New York, is treasured a silver drinking cup which King Frederik gave to the ex-trooper; but it is not the one he sent back with his deputation.