V THE THING IN THE PIT This house is, as I have said before, surrounded by a huge estate, and wild and uncultivated gardens.

How long I watched, it is impossible to say; for time, as we count it, was a thing of the past.

Going to church is a good thing for example's sake.

It was no new thing to Claudius, yet he thought it unfair.

The university leader of the future is the man who shall set laws over household accounts and who shall rule over such simple things as what best to eat and buy.

So that all the people might know who you were and not say awful things about the 'infecte gouvernement' and the Republic, 'which no gentleman could serve.'

You can't explain a thing like that.

For perhaps a minute, I stood looking at the thing with an ever growing feeling of disgust, and some fear.

It hid the thing from me, though the glare of fire shone through, dully.

I was quite puzzled, but Hatzfeldt, who was a great friend of Liszt's and knew all his peculiarities, when consulted by Madame A. as to what she could do to induce Liszt to play, had answered: "Begin by putting the piano in the furthest, darkest corner of the room, and put all sorts of heavy things on it.

"At the foot of these falls, in the summer season, the trout congregate; beautiful large fellows, from one to three pounds in weight; and a fly trailed across the current, or over the eddies, just at its outer edge, is a thing at which they are tolerably sure to rise.

A word may mean one thing by itself.

'Far be it from me to interfere, and I don't pretend to know more about this sort of thing than anybody else.

MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON, in his room in Gospeler's Gulch, reads Southern tragedies in an old copy of the New Orleans Picayune, until two o'clock, when he hastily tears up all his soiled paper collars, packs a few things into a travelling satchel, and, with the latter slung over his shoulder, and a Kehoe's Indian club in his right hand, is met in the hall by his tutor, the Gospeler.

But the hand of God was upon him, and he did not do these things without suffering in his mind.

Supper over, we cleared the things out of the way, and lit our pipes.

"Nobody in the North owns anything that's heavy," had been said in one fashion or another so often that it lost its ironic sound in the ears of men who had come so far to carry away one of the heaviest things under the sun.

I sat down on a smooth rock under a tamarind tree, the scene of many an interesting conference between the Brahmin and myself; and I cast my eyes aroundbut how changed was every thing before me!

They planned bad things against my boy.

Glad voices are ringing; sounds of merriment make the evening joyous with the music of the wild things around us.

However this may be, it is regarded as quite certain, that time was when ft was entirely void of solidity, void of dry land, with no continent, island, or solid ground, with no living thing within its circumference.

"Right away, the last minute, Mr. Vetsburg, right one things after another.

I own the earth, because it belongs to my Father,the best part of it, you know,there is a truer giving than by title deeds to material acresand the world has grown very beautiful since my Father made me heir of all things through his Son.

Things beyond my imagination peered into my frightened mind.

A filtered infusion of hay, allowed to stand for two days, will swarm with living things among which, any which reaches the diameter of a human red blood- corpuscle, or about 1/3200th of an inch, is a giant.