More than half the rank and file were mere boys; and he could see that they were unruly, almost to point-blank disregard of their officers commands, or the prescriptions of the manual.

He shivered as he drew close to the fire, and asked in one breath for a prescription for chilblains and where might Abe be.

Into them he can fling anything under the sun, from a doctor's prescription to a metaphysical theory.

I sold goods in a store and seemed to know the stocks; I worked two weeks in a telegraph office and discovered I knew the code perfectly; I've shod horses for a country blacksmith, wired a house for electric lights and compounded prescriptions in a drug store.

This soon became impracticable, so that the legists relaxed the prescription by concessions to "the force of necessity."

The drive to his patient's home, the necessary inquiries, the filling of the prescription from his own medicine-case, which he carried along with him, the little friendly conversation about the weather and the crops, and, the farmer being an intelligent and thinking man, the inevitable subject of the future of their race,these, added to the return journey, occupied at least two hours of Miller's time.

But political freedom is reacting on religious prescription with still mightier force.

Three hundred yeres prescriptions on our sides; So long thy Ancestors by fealty Have helde thy Kingdome of the Crowne of France.

It was necessary for Dinah to be in constant attendance on my Argus, and even to feed her, so helpless were her hands, with the mucilages which now formed her principal diet, by the order of some celebrated physician who wrote his prescriptions without seeing his patient, after the form of the ancients, sending them daily through the hands of Mrs. Raymond.

" "We are the original," said he, "of this claim, and should a captain be so saucy as to exceed prescription at any time, why, down with him!

When I had my jorum of the eminent physician's Samoan prescription before me, I barkened to the wisdom of the mariners.

After a month's work in intensely warm weather a gardener in the suburbs became ill, and the anxious little wife sent for a doctor, who wrote a prescription after examining the patient.