One of the proprietors of the show got a wen on his head as big as a football from being struck by a handle of a revolver, and the colonel who started the row was knocked silly by a tray of red lemonade which the butcher smashed him with, and the colonel cried because the lemonade was all water, and he was afraid it would soak into him and cause him to warp.

A fisherman, rescued twenty-four hours later, was asked by a reporter, "What did you do all that time out there with no life jacket?" "Wen' sleep when I got tired," he said.

"You shall 'ave my money wen your betters have done with it," he ses, "and not afore.

Every member of the empress's family was exterminated, and a son of Kao Tsu, known later under the name of Wen Ti (Emperor Wen), came to the throne.

Every member of the empress's family was exterminated, and a son of Kao Tsu, known later under the name of Wen Ti (Emperor Wen), came to the throne.

On the whole Wen Ti's period of rule passed in comparative peace.

Wen Ti the court was very frugal.

In the time of Wen Ti and especially of his successors, the revival at court of the Confucianist ritual and of the earlier Heaven-worship proceeded steadily.

Wen Ti's reign had brought economic advance and prosperity; intellectually it had been a period of renaissance, but like every such period it did not simply resuscitate what was old, but filled the ancient moulds with an entirely new content.

In the time of Wen Ti's successor a number of feudal kings formed an alliance against the emperor, and even invited the Hsiung-nu to join them.

Under these circumstances, as "the wen" has not been produced, so is it not likely to be dispersed by any direct legislative application.

wen she had to strip off her clean duds an' go an' milk.

Why, on Bruggabrong the women never had to do no outside work, only on a great pinch wen

Wen she got de goopher all ready en fix', she tuk 'n went out in de woods en buried it under de root uv a red oak tree, en den come back en tole one er de niggers she done goopher de grapevimes, en a'er a nigger w'at eat dem grapes 'ud be sho ter die inside'n twel' mont's.

"Wen dey tole 'im 'bout de goopher on de grapevimes, he 'uz dat tarrified dat he turn pale, en look des like he gwine ter die right in his tracks.

Wen Solomon seed he 'd done eat de 'tater, he went back en tol' Aun' Peggy, en den went home ter his cabin ter sleep, 'way 'long 'bout two o'clock in de mawnin'.

Wen he got close ter de cunjuh man, dis cunjuh man sez, sezee: "'Hoddy, Brer Dan?

I hopes you er well?' "Wen Dan seed de cunjuh man wuz in a good humor en did n' 'pear ter bear no malice, Dan 'lowed mebbe de cunjuh man had n' foun' out who killt his son, en

Wen you ketches dis witch, you mus' take her right by de th'oat en bite her right th'oo de neck.

come en sabe me fum dis wolf w'at 's killin' me!' "Wen po' Dan sta'ted to'ds her, ez any man nach'ly would, it des made her holler wuss en wuss; fer she did n' knowed dis yer wolf wuz her Dan.

"Wen he got dere, de do' wuz stan'in' open; a lighterd-knot wuz flick'rin' on de h'a'th, en de ole cunjuh man wuz settin' dere noddin' in de corner.

Taking a great bite of plug tobacco, a chew that swelled one of his thin cheeks like a wen, he lapsed into his normal attitude of disinterested reverie.

John Gilland Brunini (A); 18Mar74; R572910. R572914. P'ei-li-t' zu fang-fa chung-wen-shu, ti-i-shu.

wen I says, as his 's cheeks quite blusht with hadmirashun, and he turned round to me and says, says he, "Ah, Mr. ROBERT, if there was many such reel lovely angels as that a flying about, I rayther thinks as I shood be perswaded to turn a Bennedictus myself."

Do you remember what Lamb said of Barry Cornwall's wen on the nape of his neck?

(When the war ends, no. 6) © 7Oct46; A7081.

Did you ever have one of those awful days when everything just seems to go right?

It was not a time when the churlish are almost generous, having such overflowing pockets.

he was a very good sort of man: he never interfered with anybody or anything!' Accustomed to such an even tenour of things, all the vis inertiae of the parish revolted when the new vicar immediately evinced a determination to do his work thoroughly.

So the old folk raised their voices in a chorus of horror, and when they met gossiped over the awful downfall of the faith.

When, in the autumn, the family of the one that was for him came home, a fresh impetus was given.

When its beautiful notes rose and fell, when sweet voices swelled the wave of sound, then even the vicar's restless spirit was soothed in the fulfilment of his hope.

But when the curate has administered words of consolation and dropped the small silver dole in the palm, when his shovel-hat and black frock-coat tails have disappeared round the corner of the copse, then in a single second he drops utterly out of mind.

He talked about it for two or three years before he ventured to begin it; he has been weeks making up his mind exactly what to do after his first interview with the solicitorhe would have been months had not the solicitor at last made it plain that he could waste no more timeand when it is finally completed he will talk about it again to the end of his days.

Ladies with a little capital go home content when he has invested their money in mortgage of real property.

He knew that he had rather liked Mary and Gwendolen when they were little, and though he had found himself liking them less and less as they grew into their teens he had never troubled to enquire whose fault that was, so certain was he that it couldn't be his.

" "When did she tell you?" "Yesterday, when I was up at the farm.

He saw her three times after that; once in the broad daylight, on the high road near Morfe, when she passed him with a still more perfect and inimical unconsciousness; once in the distance on the moor, when he caught her, short-skirted and wild, jumping the wide water courses as they came, evidently under the impression that she was unobserved.

And when 'e found 'e couldn't keep t' owd gentleman, 'e gets it on 'is mind likebroodin'.

He was lighting his lamps when Jim Greatorex appeared beside him with a lantern.

It frightens me when it jumps about like that.

Nobody knew where Mary had gone or when she had started or when she would be back.

And when he came back to her she was standing by the open window again, looking at the orchard.

It was bad enough when he asked her questions and took no more notice of her answers than if she had been a born fool.

" "When it was a bit too late," said Gwenda.

She was turning slowly round and round, with her head tilted back over her left shoulder; she had just caught sight of her little white nose as it appeared in a vanishing profile and was adjusting her head at another and still more interesting angle when the Vicar caught her.

Whereas, it was when he turned to Ally that he hadn't a word to say, any more than she had, and that he became entangled in his talk, and that the intellect he tried to summon to him tottered and vanished at his call.

Alice trailed through the lower rooms, dusting furniture feebly; she gathered and arranged the flowers when there were any in the bed.

At the end of a month, when orders to the amount of nearly seventy-five thousand dollars had been receivedevery Northern and Western State being extensively represented on the booksthe Company issued another advertisement, to the effect that, owing to the overwhelming pressure of business, they were willing to dispose of patent rights for two of the States.

'Thou stricken friend of man,' exclaims Mr. Conway in a fine passage, 'who hast appealed from the God of Wrath to the God of Humanity, see in the distance that Maryland coast which early voyagers called Avalon, and sing again your song when first stepping on that shore twenty-seven years ago.