"Some one pays you; who is it?" "Ah, Tula," said Paul, without looking up.

The great Tula.

What is the matter with you, Tula?

Moscow's got it in his head That Kolomna he will wed. Tula laughs with all his heart.

Quetzalcoatl the Hero of Tula.

Tula, the City of the SunWho were the Toltecs?Tlapallan and XalacThe Birth of the Hero GodHis Virgin Mother ChimalmatlHis Miraculous ConceptionAztlan, the Land of Seven Caves, and Colhuacan, the Bended MountThe Maid Xochitl and the Rose Garden of the GodsQuetzalcoatl as the White and Bearded Stranger.

Quetzalcoatl the Hero of Tula.

TULA THE CITY OF THE SUNWHO WERE THE TOLTECS?TLAPALLAN AND XALACTHE BIRTH OF THE HERO-GODHIS VIRGIN MOTHER, CHIMALMATLHIS MIRACULOUS CONCEPTIONAZTLAN, THE LAND OF SEVEN CAVES, AND COLHUACAN, THE BENDED MOUNTTHE MAID XOCHITL AND THE ROSE GARDEN OF THE GODSQUETZALCOATL

Quetzalcoatl, the Hero of Tula.

But it was not Quetzalcoatl the god, the mysterious creator of the visible world, on whom the thoughts of the Aztec race delighted to dwell, but on Quetzalcoatl, high priest in the glorious city of Tollan (Tula), the teacher of the arts, the wise lawgiver, the virtuous prince, the master builder and the merciful judge.

Where Quetzalcoatl finally retired, and whence he was expected back, was still a TollanTollan Tlapallanand Montezuma, when he heard of the arrival of the Spaniards, exclaimed, "It is Quetzalcoatl, returned from Tula.

The natives of the city of Tula were called, from its name, the Tolteca, which simply means "those who dwell in Tollan."

Veitia justly says, "Toltecatl quiere decir artifice, porque en Thollan comenzaron a enseñar, aunque a Thollan llamaron Tula, y por decir Toltecatl dicen Tuloteca" (Historia, cap.

Este, segun sus historias (aunque algunos digan que de Tula) vino de las partes de Yucatan á la ciudad de Cholula."

The time past, he took with him all the inhabitants of Tula, and some he left in Cholula, from whom its inhabitants are descended, and some he placed in the province of Cuzcatan, and others in Cempoal, and at last he reached Tlapallan, and on the very day he arrived there, he fell sick and died.

As for Tula, it remained without an inhabitant for nine years.

There you will find him who ages ago lived in Tula, who calls himself Huemac, the Great Hand.

" [Footnote 1: Huemac, as I have already said, is stated by Sahagun to have been the war chief of Tula, as Quetzalcoatl was the sacerdotal head (Lib. iii, cap.

Their idle tales brought no relief to the anxious monarch, and at length, when his artists showed him pictures of the bearded Spaniards and strings of glittering beads from Cortes, the emperor could doubt no longer, and exclaimed: "Truly this is the Quetzalcoatl we expected, he who lived with us of old in Tula.

Tula, a little Pueblo girl, by Jeannette Smith.

Tula, a little Pueblo girl, by Jeannette Smith.

DON, a Russian river, the ancient Tanaïs; flows southward from its source in the province of Tula, and after a course of 1153 m. falls into the Sea of Azov; also the name of a river in Aberdeenshire, and another in Yorkshire.

* Going to Paris with one's wife is like going to Tula with one's samovar.

[Footnote 1: Tula is a Russian city where samovars are manufactured.

A gentleman owns a villa near Mentone; he bought it out of the proceeds of the sale of his estate in the Tula province.