over against us, on the limb of that dead fir tree, which leans out over the water, is a bald eagle, straightening with his hooked beak the feathers of his wings, and pausing now and then to look out over the water for some careless duck of which to make prey.

"Do you mean," I asked "that you never took it?" Slowly my father's body straightened in his chair, and his lips, drawn tight together, seemed to repress an exclamation.

"Humph!" grunted Mrs. Gilligan, her mouth straightening to a grim line, "I had more than a notion that that old fellow would clear out, and of course the young one wouldn't stay alone.

From the wire-pullers of the Fabian Society and from the party organizers of both Liberal and Tory party alike, and from the knowing cards, the pothouse shepherds, and jobbing lawyers who "work" the constituencies, comes the chief opposition to this straightening out of our electoral system so urgently necessary and so long overdue.

" As he started across the floor toward the stairs, Prather straightened from his leaning posture.

I think Mr. Murdstone's means were straightened at that time, and there was no mention of Salem House or of any other school.

All were bent on having their wool straightened for the obsequies, and as only a few of them could be accommodated, the little room was packed.

The shoulders straightened like a soldier's; she jumped up and whirled smilingly.

" "I don't care," defended Molly, straightening on her knees to survey her garden.

Her gaze settled on him, where he hung far out, grasping a backstay, watching the movements below, and her slender form straightened as by the acquisition of new strength.

Before his wide-open eyes the old bent figure straightens into its youthful stature.

The little man slipped back into his shadow, and straightened against the wall.