This was the Methuselah of the religious iconography of the Philippines; his colleague and perhaps contemporary is called in Europe Santa Claus, and is still more smiling and agreeable.

Sharley may have had her dim consciousness of the cosey barn and chicken's chirp, of brown and gold and blue and dazzle and glory; but you don't suppose that was what she had outgeneralled Moppet and stolen the march upon Nate and Methuselah for.

Thaddeus paused, and then he added: "I imagine they're cheering yet; at any rate, if I have as much health as they drinkon HaskinsI'll double discount old Methuselah in the matter of years.

But I feel convinced that the irascible Methuselah on the croquet ground was purposely and maliciously guilty of suppressio veri.

It is a tradition that it was pronounced in the following seven different ways by the patriarchs, from Methuselah to David, viz.: