The pastoral poetry of the peninsula is so local in its allusions that it cannot adequately be translated into English.

Then a train'twas the local from Dunkirkcame along and split the rail.

" "Yes," I said grimly, "but this colour's too local for words.

The necromancy which held the reader spellbound became ineffectual; and the charm and the glory which interested so intensely, and shone so radiantly on his configurations from realities, all failed and faded; for his genius dealt not with airy fancies, but had its power and dominion amid the living and the local of the actual world.

It began in a jest, as do all the choicest tragedies of the gods,a few lines of idle badinage, meant to spice Solon's column of business locals with a readable sprightliness.

Old Simon and his grandchild were on the local to the bridge.

He saw clearly, as the authors of the above-mentioned acts of 1789 and 1845 did, that there is no inflexible natural line of discrimination between what is national and what local by means of which to determine absolutely and unerringly at what point on a river the jurisdiction of the United States shall end.

The committee, including Myra and Joe and herself and some five others, were sitting about the hot stove, discussing the call of a Local on the East Side for a capable organizer.

In each experiment with civilization the culture pattern was transformed from pastoral and/or agricultural to a culture based on trade, commerce and finance; from rural to urban; from simple to complex; from local toward universal.

There is no reason why the same system should not be applied to the appointment of the officials of the local as to those of the central government.