"] "Who?" said the latter, sharply, as he straightened his aching back.

I loved my little ones passionately, for their clinging love soothed the aching at my heart, and their baby eyes could not critically scan the unhappiness that grew deeper month by month; and that steam-filled tent became my world, and there, alone, I fought with Death for my child.

If lips that laugh while the sun be shining, Curved as fair as the leaf of a rose, Quiver with grief at day's declining Who knows? If the heart that seems to know no aching While the fair, gold sunlight gleams and glows, Under the stars be bitterly breaking Who knows? JESSIE V. KERR.

hover still around me, and sustain my aching soulcarry me back to the earliest days of our young love, quicken every moment with enthusiasmbe my fond companion once again, and light up the old man's latest hour with the fire that ceased to burn when thou fleed'st heavenward!

You are now before my Eyes, my Eyes that are ready to flow with Tenderness, but cannot give relief to my gushing Heart, that dictates what I am now Saying, and yearns to tell you all its Achings.

MARMADUKE 'Tis a strange aching that, when we would curse And cannot.

I know that I loved her ever; that I could never forget her; that although the first pangs were past, I yet must bear "All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

A vague sense of joy touched Martin's aching heartonly to depart.

The clouds are blackening, the storms threatening, And ever the forest maketh a moan: Billows are breaking, the damsel's heart aching, Thus by herself

But as she walked back the four miles up Garthdale under Karva, she felt an aching at her heart which was odd considering how glad she was.