Guilty of death I willing am in this, Because 'twas our ill-haps to-day to miss: To hunt, and not to kill, is hunter's sorrow.

It has always seemed to me that the life, the routine, the many small haps in the daily function of a soldier, which in sum made up to him all that there was in the devoir of death, ought to be read with interest by the millions whose kin were part of the civil war, as well as by those who knew of it only as we know Napoleon's wars or Washington's.

"God guard thee here below from all the haps of woe; God in the Seat of Bliss reward thee on His day!"

Now round the minds of men hang follies unnumberedthis is the unachievable thing, to find what shall be best hap for a man both presently and also at the last.

" Perchance she also, like Fateh Muhammad's guests, had caught a message of good hap from out the darkness.

Toddled up a small tother hair tied in a knot Who remarked, "I can hardly consider You've the ghost of a chance on this wild-goosie dance Unless you should hap on a 'widder!' For our maidens at tenay, and less now and then Are all booked to the wealthiest bidder." "My dear man, it's no use to indulge in abuse Of our customs, so be not enraged, sir No woman a maid iswe're all married ladies.