" "The truth is," explains Mr. BUMSTEAD, "that Judge SWEENEY put into my head to do a few pauper graves with JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, some moonlight night, for the mere oddity and dampness of the thing.

I've got to make an excuseI've got to get that blamed uniform pressed somehowI suppose it's creased from the dampness in that locker.

"I never saw a realer scene, not even down at Sandy Hook; why, you can fairly feel the dampness from it.

Before them, blackness, darkness within dark, like a cave, a smell of dampness like a dungeon.

They come to it about the level of the heather, but they have no such affinity for dampness as the tamarack pines.

But the woman who sat shook about her great masses of dark, wet hair which yielded up its dampness to the warm caresses of the sun.

His sworn pal, the tiny Jumbo, was well nigh distracted at the thought of severing their two knitted hearts; but Sawed-Off's father was dead, and his mother was too poor to pay for his schooling, so they gave him up for lost, not without aching at the heart, and even a little dampness at the eyelids.

It was good to leave their muffled dampness for the pure sunshine of the crest.