There is no more ready shortcut to the dim kingdom than this plovery headland, for, covered and smothered now from sight by mounds of sand, a long cave goes thither "full of gold and silver, and the most beautiful parlours and drawing-rooms."

Housekeeping made easy, more than 2,000 shortcuts for daily household problems, by Linda Marvin.

They had found no gold worth looking at twice, and, lingering too long in the search, they had rashly turned back on a shortcut across the desert.

Mr. P. now very sensibly concluded that it was about time to leave, if his editors, his printers, and the employés in his pun-factory were to expect any pay that week, and so he set out for home in the evening, taking a shortcut by the way of Montreal.

The first duty of the new-comer is to teach his nether extremities to avoid instinctively the hypothenuse of the street-triangulation, and the last lesson the resident fails to learn is which of the shortcuts from point to point is the least lengthy.