Contemplating the works of these flowers of the sky, one may easily fancy them endowed with life: messengers sent down to work in the mountain mines on errands of divine love.

Mark, one cold winter's morning, started on an errand to the lumber shanty I speak of, calculatin' to return the same evening.

It was late in the afternoon when Pompey went up town on an errand for Judge Hildreth.

" There was excellent reason, beyond question, to approve of the manner in which the young gentleman had performed his errand in the country; and Mr. Foster promptly decided to go over in a day or two, and see what sort of an arrangement could be made with Mrs. Kinzer.

"With wingéd expedition, Swift as the lightning glance, he executes His errand on the wicked."

But though a willing messenger, Mr. Hepworth found it impossible to accomplish his errand with any degree of rapidity, and when he returned, successful but tardy, he found young Harper waiting where he had left Patty.

He happened to be knocking about when they took me prisoner, and he couldn't see who it was in the dark, and thought it might be his younger brother who comes on errands from the grocer's; the Philistines are always playing tricks on him.

Well, he did his errand at the shanties, and started for home.

Of these he made warlocks and witches To run of his errands by night, Till the over-wrought hag-ridden wretches Were as fit as the devil to fright.

If he had lost faith in God, he would not have obeyed God at the risk of his life, and have gone on an errand as desperate, dangerous, hopelessand, humanly speaking, as wild as ever man went upon.

I made an errand into the room on purpose to see him.

With such credentials, and with a sense of the divine commission and guidance, clear and unmistakable, like that which John Yeardley enjoyed, many may be ready to exclaim, Who would not go forth on an errand like this to the ends of the earth!

And as for my power, I come,' said he, with a smile, 'from a country which sends no one on its errands without first thoroughly satisfying itself as to his power of fulfilling them.' 'If he goes, I go with you.'

The bargain was soon struck; the servant took the money to pay for her cap and promised to do the errand out of gratitude.

That the mare was out on some other errand than the one which ended in blood and murder," was the coachman's unexpected retort.

When Peter Siner started on his indefinite errand among the village stores he believed it would require much tact and diplomacy to discuss the race question without offense.

Mrs. Purdie had commissioned her to deliver two small parcels'presents from Aberdeen'to Macgregor's sister and little brother, and she decided to fulfil the errand before going home.

You have only to go on some errands amid the taverns and hotels of the United States and Great Britain, to appreciate the fact that a vast multitude of the human race are slaughtered by incompetent cookery.

This of course meant that all errands outside the village must be made on bicycle, and George was "mustered into service." Towards noon on the 27th he made his first return trip from Charly, bringing the mail and the papers, and a very excited countenance.

Then you may hitch up the ponies, and we'll do some errands around the village.

He comes along with a very sanctimonious look, Sir, with his "secret errand unto thee," and his "message from God unto thee," and then pulls out his hidden knife with that unsuspected left hand of his,(the little gentleman lifted his clenched left hand with the blood-red jewel on the ring-finger,)and runs it, blade and haft, into a man's stomach!