Milton Kennedy, who had to act as scrutineer at the poll in town, was forced to leave home with the mystery unsolved.

Forsooth, well do I know thee, Roger the Black: come ye into the glade yonder, so will I split thy black poll for theethou surly dog!" Forth leapt Black Roger's sword, back swung Walkyn's glittering axe, but Beltane was between, and, as they stood thus came Giles o' the Bow: "Oho!"

Here, also, was a German charge with bayonets up a steep and well-defended height; and after that a hand-to-hand melee with the French defenders on the poll of the hill.

I resolved to win by playing the game, and made up my mind to go to the poll on the political questions which were agitating the public mind, as I was informed, by a simple honest candidature, thinking that in political as in every other warfare honesty is the best policy.

"General Election Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll at Bristol, November 3d, 1774, Burke's Works, vol.

From that period to the last of January election, the said band appeared at the polls with the arms of the State, rejecting every vote that "was not of the true stripe," as they called it.

Either marriage had brought him a new growth of hair, or else Blossy had selected a new wig for hima modest, close, iron-gray which fitted his poll to perfection.

This election was warmly contested by the parties, and a larger vote was polled than at any previous election in the Territory.

Yes, and it opens outwards like a tent, Guarding the sacred poll from skies injurious.

The voters would then come to the poll after twenty or twenty-four hours' rest, and their own thoughts would have some power of asserting themselves even in the presence of the canvasser, whose hustling energy now inevitably dominates the tired nerves of men who have just finished their day's work.

To keep the savage bairbers o' the wilderness fra' clippin' our polls before the shearin' time o' natur' has gathered us a' in for the hairvest of etairnity.

But I polled between two hundred and three hundred votes.

In Holland's Suetonius, p. 169: "Likewise to get, to pill and poll by hooke and crooke so much, as that" In a letter of Sir Richard Morysin to the Privy Council, in Lodges Illustrations, &c., i. 154: "Ferrante Gonzaga, d'Arras, and Don Diego, are in a leage, utterlie bent to myslyke, and to charge by hook or by crooke, anything don, or to be don, by the thre fyrst.

"The darkies and the white folks in Union County had an insurrection over the polls about the year 1888.