Homiletics is not a series of nursery-rules for manformal, didactic droppings of a pedant's tongue.

Dear AllsopI have been very poorly and nervous lately, but am recovering sleep, &c. I do not invite or make engagements for particular days; but I need not say how pleasant your dropping in any Sunday morn'g would be.

Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, 350 How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!

" "I knew it was too good to be true," mourned Betty, a tear dropping on the yellowed silk shawl she was neatly folding.

And curd, like Aygre droppings into Milke, [Sidenote: eager] The thin and wholsome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant Tetter bak'd about, [Sidenote: barckt about] Most Lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth Body.

It was an odd thing that, in going through Exeter on our way to Camborne in 1828, I found them complete at Exeter, identified to the custodian by the dropping out of a letter with my address.

The tell-tale trumpery and eaves-dropping with which the "Tour of a German Prince" is trickseyed out, reminds us of an observation by Lady Morgan: "Admit these fellows into your house, and the only return they will make you is to put you in their book.

He had another and watched the bartender talk on the telephone, her elbows and breasts on the bar, a vertical worry line dropping between her eyes.

With the cable dropping to the bottom two miles down it was found that it was flowing out at the rate of six miles an hour while the Niagara was steaming but four.

The property damage, however, was slight and the effectiveness of bomb-dropping as a means of destroying a city or fortifications remained to be proved to the military mind.