Why, that was the sun making an effect of stained glass as it shone through the fat pine weather-boarding of his little bedroom on the old place down in Florida.

There were upwards of a hundred boarding at the same house with ourselves.

At another of them, instead of boarding in the pram, I shut off the Boreal's liquid air at such a point that, by delicate steering, she slackened down to a stoppage just a-beam of the smack, upon whose deck I was thus able to jump down.

The hurricane had ripped off the boarding about the bell, and the wind itself was the bell-ringer.

The same old shabby school-houses, fifteen by twenty, still do duty, and the district committee annually figure with the many youthful candidates for teacherswho, it used to be said, came there on a horseto make the per-head allowance of the school fund, with boarding around thrown in, pay for their three months' services.

The church now restored was formerly a cathedral, and there are some fine old mosaics (11th century) to be seen under the boarding near the altar.

Five Portuguese captains who led the van, pushed on to attack the Calicut admiral in his two chained ships, which they carried by boarding after a brave resistance, in which that officer and two of his sons with many others of the Malabars were slain.

Beneath the pulpit on ordinary occasions stood the Communion-table; but on evenings when the rite of baptism was prepared, this table, and a boarding on which it stood, were removed, revealing a tiled baptistry,that is, a tiled tank, about eight feet long, and six wide, with steps on each side descending into about four feet of water.

" (Smith supported the excellent old lady in comfort for a decade, under pretence of boarding with her, ministering to the last years of her life with the care and affection of a son.)