Lo, yonder on the heapèd crest Of a Greek wain, Andromachê, As one that o'er an unknown sea Tosseth; and on her wave-borne breast Her loved one clingeth, Hector's child, Astyanax....

He beheld the Pleiads, the Bear which is by some called the Wain, that moves round about Orion, and keeps still above the ocean, and the slow-setting sign Bootes, which some name the Waggoner.

[L] the ponderous timber-wain resounds; In foamy breaks the rill, with merry song, Dashed o'er the rough rock, lightly leaps along; From lonesome chapel at the mountain's feet, Three humble bells their rustic chime repeat; 140 Sounds from the water-side the hammered boat; And 'blasted' quarry thunders, heard remote!

[20] and grating wain To flat-roofed towns, that touch the water's bound, Or lurk in woody sunless glens profound, Or, from the bending rocks, obtrusive cling, 85

XXXVII They looked and saw a lengthening road, and wain 325 That rang down a bare slope not far remote: The barrows glistered bright with drops of rain, Whistled the waggoner with merry note, The cock far off sounded his clarion throat; But town, or farm, or hamlet, none they viewed, 330 Only were told there stood a lonely cot A long mile thence.

She saw the carman bend to scoop the flood As the wain fronted her,wherein lay one, A pale-faced Woman, in disease far gone.

No plough their sinews strained; on grating road No wain they drove, and yet, the yellow sheaf In every vale for their delight was stowed: For them, in nature's meads, the milky udder flowed.

"And he, 'tis said, did first compute the stars Which beam in Charles's wain, and guide the bark Of the Phoenecian sailor o'er the sea.

Thou wouldst have fled, though cumbered with thy wain.

Great Bear, Charles's Wain, the Plough, the Dipper, the Chariot of Davidwith what fancies the human mind through all the ages has played with that glorious constellation!

And, through the win-ter's cold and snow, We trust-ed that God's care would bring The green and ten-der blade in spring, Which che-rished by the sun and rain Of sum-mer, now has yield-ed grain In au-tumn, when the reap-er leaves His cot to cut and bind the sheaves, And load with them the nod-ding wain Which bears them home-ward from the plain.

Kitte-mau-giz-ze Sho-wain-e-min, is their common expression to an agentI am poor, show me pity, (or rather) charity me; for they use their substantives for verbs.

No little Gradgrind had ever seen a face in the moon; no little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are"; each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.

Creakingly the wain followed him, pausing and starting and pausing again with groans of inertia.

It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.

The wain trains which had lately followed the packhorse trains over the Alleghanieswith the widening of the Wilderness Roadwere already bringing many comforts and even luxuries to the cabins of the well-to-do settlers.

The happy speculator in future sits on the piled-up wain, singing "I told you so," with the submarine and the flying machine and the Marconigram and the North Pole successfully achieved.

By Harry Wain.

Harry Wain (A); 31Oct74; R588242. R588243.

" "I rec'lect now," said Job Lear very slowly, "that the wain-rope was wet

In it also he gave monition for the annual choice of collectors for the poor; warning for the yearly perambulation of the parish bounds; and public announcement of the six certain days on which each year every parishioner had to attend in person or send wain and men for the repair of highways.

Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, i, 100-1 (Indictment reciting that John Johnson had had due notice in his parish church, yet had not sent his wain, etc., 1576).

Or in the summer blithe with lamb-cropped green, Save the one track, where naught more rude is seen Than the plump wain at even Bringing home four months' sunshine bound in sheaves.

There also stands a speech-maker by rote, Pulling the strings of his boxed raree-show; And in the lapse of many years may come Prouder itinerant, mountebank, or he 35 Whose wonders in a covered wain lie hid.

At the same time they selected and hewed down a tall, straight treethe tallest and straightest they could find; and, stripping off its branches, placed it on a wain, and dragged it to the village with the help of an immense team of oxen, numbering as many as forty yoke.