THE MONEY MOON ROSE XXVII IN WHICH IS VERIFIED THE ADAGE OF THE CUP AND THE LIP XXVIII WHICH TELLS HOW BELLEW LEFT

You know the old adage, 'In for a penny, in for a pound.'

Speaking of weeds in their metaphorical sense, we may quote one further adage respecting them: "A weed that runs to seed Is a seven years' weed.

But when Allenby conquered Palestine between bouts of trying to tame his Australians, and Djemal Pasha scooted hot-foot into exile with a two-hundred-woman harem packed in lorries at his rear, Yussuf remembered that old adage about better late than never.

We may repeat, too, again the familiar adage: "If you sweep the house with blossomed broom in May, You are sure to sweep the head of the house away.

When, all the fuss and vapour was made by Mr. Law and his friends, they seemed to have forgotten the old adage, "People who live in glass houses should not throw stones."

If I were to form an adage of misery, or fix the lowest point to which humanity could fall, I should be tempted to name the life of an author.

As I was strolling towards the canal to take my passage to the Ohio river, a little incident occurred, which, as it illustrates a very old adage, I will not omit.

In their domestic industry the Massachusetts people found by experience that "many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all"; and they were shrewd enough to apply the adage in keeping the scale of their industrial units within the frugal requirements of their lives.

Most of us in extremity prefer Shakespeare's adage about hoisting engineers.

However, he rejoiced in the success he had attained, and, to admiring neophytes who gazed in admiration on his perilous achievement of rather reckless living and success in gaining the confidence of his employers, he explained the marvel by uttering his favorite adage in his own peculiar style: "Business before pleasure!

" This was indeed a wonderful story; and the fact that Bertha Nugent was on board a derelict vessel and should happen to fall in with me on board of another, was one of those events which corroborate the trite and hackneyed adage, that truth is stranger than fiction.

"I set that adage in a copy book to-night.

It could hardly have been to enforce the old adage,Speak well of the bridge that carries you over.

Some of the lines with which I had been perplexed, have been, indeed, so fortunate as to attract his regard; and it is not without all the satisfaction which it is usual to express on such occasions, that I find an entire agreement between us in substituting [see Note II.] quarrel for quarry, and in explaining the adage of the cat, [Note XVII.]

If this be so, we must accept our fate and enlarge the adage that 'poets are born, not made,' and include Spiritualists.