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And duck your head and do a summersault forward--see?

Soon after leaving our camp this morning our "Little Invulnerable," while climbing a steep rocky ascent, missed his footing and turned three back summersaults down into the bottom of the ravine.

Sometimes there was a letter for which there was no applicant present and then Miss Harriet would say: "Is anybody going past Mrs Willis Summerses?"

We can't keep 'im from goin' over the break, an' if he tackles you--just summerset it down the gully.

W. G. Souvenir of Cologne (A) 314 SHARPLES, HENRY Ruling Passion (The) 434 SMITH, JAMES F. E. 56 SOMERVILLE, MISS MAISIE Humour's Labour Lost 460 STRUNSKY, SIMEON Food Problem in Paris (The) 109 Guaranteed 12 STUART, MISS D. M. Last Watch of the Night (The) 302 Swans of Ypres (The) 240 SUMMERSGILL, J. Getting a Job 279 SYMNS, J. M. Songs of Simla 414, 440, 460, 474, 500 TALBOT, MISS ETHEL Fairies' Flitting (The) 266 TAYLOUR, COMMANDER BASIL Opium Hound (The) 47 Civilian Flying, 1930 336 THOROLD, R. A. Lines to a Legionary 98 To a March Brown, swallowed alive 229 THORP, JOSEPH At the Play 268, 350, 506 THURGOOD, OWEN House-Hunter (The) 248 TROTTER, MRS.

only to little school out here summers,--little school some ladies made; and Metalka tole me--taught me--showed me ev'ry day after she came back--ev'ry day, till--til she--went 'way.

He was born at Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire, in 1819, and came to Western Australia with his parents in 1829 in the Lotus, 500 tons, Captain Summerson, the second passenger ship that sailed for Western Australia.

And even two prepositions may be brought together without union or coalescence; because the object of the first one may be expressed or understood before it: as, "The man whom you spoke within the street;"--"The treatment you complain of on this occasion;"--"The house that you live in in the summer;"--"Such a dress as she had on in the evening."

But he does know that the sun never seemed so warm, the air so pure, as this summer,--that about the quiet farm and homestead there is a genial atmosphere of peace: the wounded soldiers who come there often to be cured grow strong and calm in it; the war seems far-off to them; they have come somehow a step nearer the inner heaven.

In 1753, his Ode on the approach of Summer,--The Pastoral, in the Manner of Spenser--(which has not much resemblance to that writer), and Verses inscribed on a beautiful Grotto,--were printed in the Union, a poetical miscellany, selected by him, and edited at Edinburgh.

And the compound form with a capital, is as necessary for Firstday, Secondday, Thirdday, &c., as for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, &c. "The first day of the week,"--"The seventh day of the month,"--"The second month of summer,"--"The second month in the year," &c., are good English phrases, in which any compounding of the terms, or any additional use of capitals, would be improper; but, for common use, these phrases are found too long and too artificial.

Why do we not come here oftener in summer?--the country is ten times more lovely then than it is in the shooting season.

The next year's meeting was to be at Oxford, and on Oct. 17th I received from the Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt an invitation to supply a Report on Astronomy, which I undertook: it employed me much of the winter, and the succeeding spring and summer.--The second edition of my Tracts was ready in October.

Nevermore in summertide nor in the days of May bare he within his heart such lofty joy as now he gained, when hand in hand he walked with her whom he fain would call his love.

In that strange island Iceland,--burst up, the geologists say, by fire from the bottom of the sea; a wild land of barrenness and lava; swallowed many months of every year in black tempests, yet with a wild gleaming beauty in summertime; towering up there, stern and grim, in the North Ocean with its snow jokuls, roaring geysers, sulphur-pools and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire;--where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down.

Some are for Violets, some are for Roses, Some for Peniriall, some for Bee Balm, When they go church-along carrying posies (Smell 'em and glance at the lads in the psalm); I am for Southernwood, Southernwood, Southernwood (Lad's Love 'tis called by the home-folk hereby), All in the summertime, summertime, summertime-- Lad's Love 'tis called, and for lad's love am I. W.B. * * * * * THE POET.

Summertimes he is a prop and ornament of Coney, that isle of the blest, whose sands he models into gracious forms and noble sentiments, in anticipation of the casual dime or the munificent quarter, wherewith, if you have low, Philistine tastes or a kind heart, you have perhaps aforetime rewarded him.

General Anderson's division will cross at Summerville Ford, follow the route of General Jackson, and act in reserve.

The picture of the little army of besiegers, wasted by continual disease and exposure to the heats of an Indian summer,--worn by the constant sallies and attacks of a host of enemies trained in arms,--saddened by the receipt of evil tidings from all quarters,--feeling that upon their final success rested not only the hope of the continuance of British supremacy in India, but the very lives of those dear to them,--and, worst of all, compelled to submit to a succession of incompetent generals, whose timidity and irresolution baffled the best designs of officers and the dashing bravery of the troops;--the pictures which Hodson gives of this little army, of its unflagging spirit and resolution, and its valorous deeds, are drawn with such truth as to bring the successive scenes vividly before the imagination.

The splendor (numen) of the gods appears, and the quiet seats which are not shaken by storm-winds nor aspersed by rain-clouds; nor does the whitely falling snow-flake, with its hoar rime, violate their summery warmth, but an ever-cloudless ether laughs above them with widespread radiance."

FIELDING IX.--THE INTRUDER PART II I.--THE WAND OF OFFICE II.--MIDSUMMER MADNESS III.--A DRAWN BATTLE IV.--A POINT OF HONOUR V.--THE WAY TO HAPPINESS VI.--RECONCILIATION VII.--THE SPELL VIII.--THE HONOURS OF WAR PART III I.--BIRDS OF A FEATHER II.--SALTASH III.--THE PRICE IV.--KISMET V.--THE DRIVING FORCE VI.--THE SISTER OF MERCY VII.--THE SACRIFICE VIII.--THE MESSAGE IX.--THE ANSWER PART IV I.--THE FREE GIFT II.--FRIENDSHIP III.--CONFESSION IV.--COUNSEL V.--THE THUNDERBOLT VI.--COALS OF FIRE VII.--FLIGHT VIII.--OUT OF THE NIGHT IX.--THE FREE PARDON X.--THE LAST FENCE THE OBSTACLE RACE PART I CHAPTER I BETTER THAN LONDON A long, green wave ran up, gleaming like curved glass in the sunlight, and broke in a million sparkles against a shelf of shingle.

Gervasius of Tilbury (with some confusion in his mind between tropic and equinoxial, like that which Pliny makes in speaking of the Indian Mons Malleus) says that "some are of opinion that the Centre is in the place where the Lord spoke to the woman of Samaria at the well, for there, at the summer solstice, the noonday sun descends perpendicularly into the water of the well, casting no shadow; a thing which the philosophers say occurs at Syene"! (

I was conducted one afternoon by Dr. Cassolani to one of the royal summer- houses.

give her my new hat," He cried; "I can wear My black one all summer-- It's good--you won't care-- "Say!

Chivalry, that mediaeval institution of mixed good and evil, was in its Indian summer,--a sentiment rather than a practical system.

SUMMERALL, C. P. Knights of the air.

How tame all wild animals become in the summer!--all except the ones we want to circumvent--magpies, jays, stoats, and such small deer.

It came to be summer,--balmy and green,--and everything around the old house was delightful, and its beautiful rooms became more pleasant than ever in the long days and soft brief nights.

Secret Service covertly videotapes "SummerCon" hacker convention.

LoD heavy-dudes were always a strong presence at these Phrack-sponsored "Summercons."

And again He said, "Consider the lilies of the field"--not the pale, delicate blossom we know so well, but "the scarlet martagon" which "decks herself in red and gold to meet the step of summer"--"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; yet I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.

Her cheeks, where youth once summer'd into roses, Glow now with faint exotic loveliness, Not native to this harsh and gusty earth; And from her large dark eyes there seems to gaze Some angel with mute, melancholy looks, As from a casement at this jarring world.

Bridgeport, waiting for Iranistan to rise from its ashes with all its phoenix-egg domes,--bubbles of wealth that broke, ready to be blown again, iridescent as ever, which is pleasant, for the world likes cheerful Mr. Barnum's success; New Haven, girt with flat marshes that look like monstrous billiard-tables, with haycocks lying about for balls,--romantic with West Rock and its legends,--cursed with a detestable depot, whose niggardly arrangements crowd the track so murderously close to the wall that the peine forte et dure must be the frequent penalty of an innocent walk on its platform,--with its neat carriages, metropolitan hotels, precious old college-dormitories, its vistas of elms and its dishevelled weeping-willows; Hartford, substantial, well-bridged, many-steepled city,--every conical spire an extinguisher of some nineteenth-century heresy; so onward, by and across the broad, shallow Connecticut,--dull red road and dark river woven in like warp and woof by the shuttle of the darting engine; then Springfield, the wide-meadowed, well-feeding, horse-loving, hot-summered, giant-treed town,--city among villages, village among cities; Worcester, with its Diedalian labyrinth of crossing railroad-bars, where the snorting Minotaurs, breathing fire and smoke and hot vapors, are stabled in their dens; Framingham, fair cup-bearer, leaf-cinctured Hebe of the deep-bosomed Queen sitting by the sea-side on the throne of the Six Nations.

By Summerfield Baldwin, Paul Birdsall & others.

J. W. Summerhays, New Rochelle, N. Y. Dear Sir: Captain William Baird, 6th Cavalry, retired, now at Annapolis, sent me Mrs. Summerhay's book to read, and I have read it with delight, for I was in "K" when Mrs. Summerhays "took on" in the 8th.

Dear Mrs. Summerhayes: I offer my personal congratulations upon your success in producing a work of such absorbing interest to all friends of the Army, and so instructive to the public at large.

J. W. Summerhays, New Rochelle, N. Y. Dear Sir: Captain William Baird, 6th Cavalry, retired, now at Annapolis, sent me Mrs. Summerhay's book to read, and I have read it with delight, for I was in "K" when Mrs. Summerhays "took on" in the 8th.

I was telling the tale to our parson this summer,--he's a fair-minded chap, the parson, in spite of a little natural leaning to strawberries, which I always take in very good part,--and he turned it about in his mind some time.

Millard Fillmore July 10, 1850, to March 4, 1853 Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore was born February 7, 1800, in the township of Locke (now Summerhill), Cayuga County, N.Y. He was the second son of Nathaniel Fillmore and Phoebe Millard.

Immediately contiguous to every mansion of any magnitude was erected a summerhouse, usually situated in a spot, selected for the beauty of the scene which it commanded; and to this sanctum did the gentlemen retire after dinner, to enjoy, unrestrained by the presence of the ladies, a full indulgence in that boisterous carousal, which their bluff hearts so dearly loved.

I had never lived on that side of the river, and felt cut off from all my belongings,--the bridge a terror, so cold in winter, so hot in summer,--I never got accustomed to it, never crossed it on foot.

Notwithstanding the scorching heat of an Indian summer,--in spite, too, of the fact that a number of the men were obliged to march in heavy garments utterly unsuited to the climate; though death, disease, and a thousand perils lay in front of them,--not a man of Havelock's "Ironsides" but was impatient to push onward to death or victory.

Toward the end of April or the first of May they migrate back to their summering homes in the open valleys along the Yellowstone and in the plains south of the Golden Gate.

And when shown other sea-country treasures,--bits of coral and ivory and mosses,--things grew plainer than ever, and she began to have a very clear notion of Esther's past surroundings, and pictured her mother as one of those neat, trim, anxious-faced little women she had often seen in her sea or mountain summerings.

The bank sloped steeply; a fringe of stunted aspens and willows sprang from the frozen sand: it was a sickening, airless place in summer,--it was damp and desolate now.

Another thing kept coming into Leslie's head that day,--the yards of delicate grass-linen that she had hemstitched, and knotted into bands that summer,--just for idle work, when plain bindings and simple ruffling would have done as well,--and all for her accumulating treasure of reserved robings, while here were these two girls darning stockings, and sewing over heavy woollen stuffs, that actual, inevitable work might be dispatched in these bright, warm hours that had been meant for holiday.

From here one may start on the grand Alaskan tour, winding up through all the wonders of sound and strait, bay and ocean, to the far North summerland--a trip of most entrancing interest.

Bluff Captain Davison, gruff Captain Hutcheson, studious Major Root, saturnine Major Egan, wounded Lieutenant Byron, patient Lieutenant Poore, dashing Captain Elkins, and courteous Lieutenant Summerlin, I salute you all in the most military manner of the soldier dismounted!

Judge" Summerling bowed stiffly and cleared his throat.

Actors, bring now a black jack and a rundlet of Rhenish wine, disputing of the antiquity of red noses: let the Prodigal Child come in in his doublet and hose all greasy, his shirt hanging forth, and ne'er a penny in his purse, and talk what a fine thing it is to walk summerly, or sit whistling under a hedge, and keep hogs.