* A Gourd of Honor(!)

After the Indians had obtained all the game they desired for themselves, and we had all left the ground, Hal borrowed one of the gourds for Patsey.

" The soldier placed his gourd in his hands, and the prisoner drank the water handed to him by a man with whom he had just exchanged bullets.

Each of you must take a gourd from his basket there and tie it around his ankle.

Each Countryman ties a gourd around his ankle, wraps his blanket round him, and lies down.

They have likewise abundance of salt, which they make from sea water, which they carry in gourds to certain caves where the salt is made.

Some had got broken basins or pumpkin-gourds before them, in which they kneaded up with their hands boiled beans and manioc flour; this thick and disgusting- looking mess they devoured with avidity.

Grim said a few words to Narayan Singh in Arabic, which so far as the sentry was concerned wasn't a language, but Narayan Singh spoke in turn in Punjabi, and the man just out from India began to droop like Jonah's gourd under the old soldier's scorn.

Taking with him a long bag, he entered the water, until nothing was seen but the gourd on his head.

[They enter and throw the two baskets of gourds over the wall.

Did we not have two baskets of gourds with us?

So she took six large, dry, empty gourds as floats, lest she should sink in the water, threw oft her clothes, and plunged into the water.

There was usually a gourd at the spring, but now it was gone.

The natives throw a large quantity of these gourds into the ponds, after having carefully stopped up the holes by which water is introduced into them, to prevent their sinking.

On all these islands there is found a tree about the size of our elms, which bears a sort of gourd out of which they make drinking cups; but they never eat it, as its pulp is bitterer than gall, and its shell is as hard as a turtle's back.

"I live my life," it whispering said, "See what I see, and count the dead; And every year of all I've known A gourd above my head has grown And made a boast like thine to-day,