"Well," he said, "I am obliged to you for being perfectly frank with me.

The stranger seemed to be very frank in his statements, and appeared to be very anxious to get rid of the animal, and as we were going to Kansas where there would be plenty of room for the horse to run as far as he pleased, father concluded to make a trade for him; so an exchange of animals was easily and satisfactorily effected.

"Must be Calais," said Frank to Jack in a whisper.

That was frank, frank as a child would have been, with no realization of the self-revelation of it.

When I like a man I'm simply frank about it.

The marauding parties, as they learned the wealth and weakness of this new land, grew bigger, until at length they were armies, and defeated the German Franks in pitched battles, and spread desolation through all the country.

Here's threepence; that's all the tin I'm worth.what have you got, Diggy?" "Four halfpenny stamps, and half a frank on my watch-chain," was the reply.

"What a prize to them that French steamer would have been!" said Annie; "the one you and Ford took Frank from.

An Indefatigable man and a Queen Mary man both missed the next mark and there remained but Frank for the Queen Mary and a man named Simpson for the Indefatigable.

Jack suddenly took Frank by the arm.

"I guess there will be nothing for us to do this night," said Frank at last.

Clovis was fifteen or sixteen years old when he became King of the Salian Franks of Tournay.

"Any idea where we are?" asked Frank of his chum.

After this, they sent many thousand copies of it in franks into the country.

[Illustration: Figs. 1 and 2.Costumes of the Franks from the Fourth to the Eighth Centuries, collected by H. de Vielcastel, from original Documents in the great Libraries of Europe.]

The inhabitants of this valley regret very much the separation of Savoy from France, as during the time that Duchy was annexed to the French Empire, each peasant possessing an ass could earn three franks per diem in transporting merchandise across Mont-Cenis.

But power was dearer to the valiant Frank than a name; and he made his creature, the rhetorician Eugenius, the nominal emperor of the West.

The Tartars used often to come to our hut in the night, when drunk with mead, demanding with loud outcries to deliver up the Franks to them, and the bravest among us were terrified at the dangerous situation in which we were among these savages.

From the conquest of Gaul by Caesar, to the establishment there of the Franks under Clovis, she remained for more than five centuries under Roman dominion; first under the pagan, afterwards under the Christian empire.

The foils were crossed above the mantel and the pictures were hung about the walls, but he insisted on putting on the gloves with Frank before hanging them up where they would be ornamental.

she said calmly; and putting on her bonnet, followed Frank out of the house.

He himself had directed the fighting energy of the Franks against foreign enemies.

I found many Franks at Iconium, and among these a merchant called Nicholas de Sancto Syrio, and his partner Boniface de Molandino, who had a monopoly of all the alum of Turkey from the soldan, and by this means they had raised the price so much, that what used to sell for fifteen byzants, is now sold for forty.

" Beaten and kingless, the Goths retreated in great disorder; and Clovis, pursuing his march, arrived without opposition at Bordeaux, where he settled down with his Franks for the winter.

In 496 the Allemannians, a Germanic confederation like the Franks, who also had been, for some time past, assailing the Roman empire on the banks of the Rhine or the frontiers of Switzerland, crossed the river, and invaded the settlements of the Franks on the left bank.