As scouts and guides were in great demand, I concluded once more to take up my old avocation of scouting and guiding for the army.

From all accounts, they are allowed to pursue their avocations in peace, and are not unfrequently employed by the piratical datus, and made to labor for them.

From the point of view of a Chylde, all avocations for the making of money seem degrading, and only the spending is dignified.

If, after a sleepless night with the restless babes, (driven from the bosom of their mother,) she performed her toilsome avocations with diminished activity, her mistress, with her own lady-like hands, applied the cowskin, and the neighborhood resounded with the cries of her victim.

No less remarkable was the quaint juxtaposition during the height of the riots of seething disorder and the quiet prosecution of their daily avocations by the bulk of the people.

"No, dear aunt, I only wish to finish a task I have set myself, and my various avocations during the day prevent my having any time, unless I take it from such amusements," said Ellen, blushing as she spoke; "indeed, that is my real and only reason.

In Miss Herschel's charming letters we find a vivid sketch of the family avocations at this period:- "My brother applied himself to perfect his mirrors, erecting in his garden a stand for his twenty-foot telescope: many trials were necessary before the required motions for such an unwieldy machine could be contrived.

" James Crocks, her husband, had chosen for himself a gentler avocation than his wife's, and one which brought him greater peace of mindproprietor of the big red stable which spread itself over half a block, he had unconsciously defined himself, as well as his place of business, by having printed in huge white letters with black edging across the shingled roof, the words: "HORSE REPOSITORY" PROP.J. CROCKS.

It might be true that, as Lady Diantha had declared, wherever Michael Lanyard showed himself in open pursuit of his avowed avocation as a collector of rare works of artin London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or where-notthere in due sequence the Lone Wolf would consummate one of his fantastic coups.