He had shrunk from exposing them to the ups and downs of business life, its trying fluctuations, its frequent cruel mischances.

"The other town feller has asked for a knock-down to Johnnie, too.

" As dusk draws on, the young fellow, returning from a long walk, espies an aged Irish lady leaning against a tree on the edge of the turnpike, with a pipe upside-down in her mouth, and her bonnet on wrong-side-afore.

I BROUGHT ONE DOWN WITH ME HERE, AND WHENEVER I GO OUT TO TAKE A LITTLE DIP, THE FAITHFUL CREATURE WILL INSIST ON DRAGGING ME ASHORE."Letter from a Friend.]

So I went on my way in the mid-afternoon down hill to what in my heart I knew to be Bob-up-and-down on the far side of which lies and climbs Harbledown and the hospital of St Nicholas.

In great contrast with these was an individual with a wound through the fleshy part of the thigh, by far the least seriously wounded of all in the ward, who never failed with his unending requests to the patient orderlies and his eternal complainings, until a public dressing-down from me brought him to heel.

This summer I'll give the square harvesters what they want, an' that's a big come-down for me.

In all the little hollows of the downs at that part there are plantations of fir-woods, some of which have grown to a good size.

It is reported, but this must be an exaggeration, that 500 assembled lately on a Down near Mr. Brockman's.

Got away at last with an old fox, and over the downs into the vale.

We got to the edge of the downs by 2 P.M., looking straight down on the fort, which was the other side of the river, but from our position we could see right down into the interior.

But Joel called himself a great many unpleasant names during the rest of the game, and for a long while after could not think of his first touch-down without feeling his cheeks redden.

"I suppose," continued Pearl, "the people who made the laws did not think it would ever come to a show-down like this.

The cook had picked the chicken and now its down over the coals.

Suddenly I became aware that I was not the only enemy of that city, for I perceived the colossal form of the Hurricane walking over the down towards me, playing idly with the flowers as he passed, and near me he stopped and spake to the Earthquake, who had come up mole-like

It had nothing more the matter with it on the day of the break-down than the heated cylinders, which, as Mortlake had prophesied, soon cooled.

For some half hour he walked to and fro along the sea-wall, between the blackness of the sky and the lead-coloured water, and then his thoughts turned to the downs above this stricken place, where, even in the sultriest days some breath of wind was always moving.

From where he was, a man might see the white recumbent sheep and the black outline of the lonely downs, and the grey line of the farther and lonelier downs beyond them; or in hollows far below him, out of the pitiless wind, he might see the grey smoke of hamlets arising from black valleys.

When I came upon you up on the top of the Down behind the house, lying on the grass, looking outalwaysalways towards the seaoh, I knew very well what it was that was drawing you; but I said nothing, Dick.

" "I've been thinking," said Oliver, "that you'd find it better to have some sort of a shake-down under my counter.

At last we resolved to pass the sandy downs along the sea coast; we afterwards met with a sandy plain almost as low as the ocean.

As soon as he had breath enough he began calling pitifully for some one to brush the down off his Sunday trousers.

Temperance had turned the plates upside-down around the table, and placed in a straight line through the middle a row of edibles.

Mr. Pennant assigns as the reason of their abounding on the downs about Eastbourne, the existence of a species of fly which forms their favourite food, and which feeds on the wild thyme on the adjacent hills.