But the most singular part of the scene was a number of little boys, dressed in black and white, who all wore badges of the parties to which they belonged, and were provided with a syringe, and two canteens, one filled with rose-water, and the other with a black liquid, of a very offensive smell, the first of which they squirted at their favourite candidates and voters, and the last on those of the opposite party.

But, anyway, there isn't any merit badge for keeping your eyes open.

" And we'll be night-watchmen uproarious, Wid big badges on our coats, And we'll fight for TOM MURPHY

His cap, which had a badge in front, was greasy, and he carried an oilskin coat.

Then the neighbor boy, full of the devil, had struck Old Badge with a stick.

2. The STAR.This attribute, often embroidered in front of the veil of the Virgin or on the right shoulder of her blue mantle, has become almost as a badge from which several well-known pictures derive their title, "La Madonna della Stella."

Loyal cheers resounded from every part of the theatre, and the feelings excited became so fervid that some officers of the National Guard, who were among the guests, reversed their new tricolor cockade, and, displaying the white side outermost, seemed to have resumed the time-honored badge under which the army had reaped all its old glories.

Then said the prince unto them, "This, O Mansoul, is my livery, and the badge by which mine are known from the servants of others.

He said it would be a kind of a merit badge to Skinny, for keeping his eyes open.

There's but two parts to play: shame has done hers But execution must close up the Scaene, And for that cause these sprigs are worne by all, Badges of Mariage, now of Funerall, For death this day turns Courtier.

Within will be noticed some ancient wooden benches with the Tudor badge at their ends, spared by the restorer, who has here done his work carefully and well.

This youth is positively guaranteed to grow, if kept in the sun and to win the pathfinder's badge before the summer is out.

Fool hens, the woodsman called them, and the motley and mark of their weak mentality were a red badge near the eye.

What other badge than that of servility shall the servant wear?"

As for Martin Green, Walter Lonsdale and Joe Digby, they contented themselves with hoping that they might receive their badges as second-class scouts when the camp was over.