They are to excite our piety during this octave preparatory to the birthday of Christ.

Nay, I once gave her a hint, which she so well understood that she burst into tears, that I could not invite her to some of my parties, because her mamma once sent her on my birthday in a coloured frock.

ON THOUGHTS AT FIFTY Stevenson, it will be remembered, once assigned his birthday to a little girlor was it a boy?of his acquaintance.

Other votes in regard to him were that his image should not be borne in procession at any one's funeral and the consuls should celebrate his birthday with games no less than that of Mars the tribunes, as being sacrosanct, were to manage the Augustalia.

His one great hobby lay in the line of photography, and such had been his remarkable success with a cheap outfit that his mother had surprised and delighted the boy on a recent birthday by giving him an expensive camera.

I turned to the fly-leaf and read this: "To my daughter on her eighth birthday from her father.

Birthdays for Robin.

Romans, said he, old Marius now must die: These seven fair eagles, birds of mighty Jove, That at my birthday on my cradle sat, Now at my last day warn[150] me to my death, And lo, I feel the deadly pangs approach.

It was to be presented to him on his next birthday as a great surprise.

On Lady Georgiana Peel's first birthday after the death of her father Lady Russell sent her the following verses: To GEORGY

It was published in the spring, and at once took its place beside the Six Birthdays in the hearts of the children; a place it still continues to hold.

There were the Thanksgiving days in the church at home, and the Washington's birthdays at school, and two Decoration days, when, as a granddaughter of a veteran, she had helped scatter flowers over the soldiers' graves.

You an' me'll celebrate the birthday between ourselves with that contrac'.

All the members who have had a birthday during the week come forward to put a penny for each year into the basket.

Could God turn my eighteenth birthday into a day of mourning?

Mr. Hutchinson made a few remarks to the friends who had called upon him, in the course of which he said: 'I never spent a more enjoyable birthday than this, except upon the occasion of my seventy-fifth, which I spent in New York and was tendered a reception by the American Temperance union, of which I was the organizer.

NINETEEN The 9th of November 1896 The Prince of Wales's birthday up the country was celebrated as usual thereaway by the annual horse-races on the Wyambeet course, about fourteen miles from Caddagat.

One cannot pass over one's fiftieth birthday without feeling that an event has happened.

"Well," said the mate, as they proceeded to drag the machine out of the ditch, "I should think, Jack, you've celebrated your birthday about enough; now you'd better give over, or we shall all be sent home in a sack.