" "I'd give up watching for him if I were you," said Crewe, as he flicked the ash of his cigar into the fireplace.

"I say Kemp is a liar," he replied, knocking the ash off his cigar.

He brushed the ash fiercely from his cigar.

To be on the dreaded carpet of the manager's room was once an ordeal; to-day he can drop cigarette-ash on it and turn never a hair.

Rush, in and out of his chair a dozen times, to flip the ash from his cigarette, to light one for Mary, to hand the strawberries round again, was tugging at his moorings like a captive balloon.

My road, as may naturally be supposed in a new country, lay through alternations of forest and cultivation; if it was not well macadamized, at least it was far better than I had expected, and there is some pleasure in being agreeably disappointed, and able to jog along without eternally bumping in some deep rut, which shakes the ash off your cigar inside your waistcoat.

There's lots you can say about 'em without makin' a fool o' yourself!" Bruce beat the ash out of his pipe as an emphasis to his final remark.

Don't you believe something is bound to happen?" he inquired, nervously removing the ash from his cigar.

Through the thicket streaming, Lightnings now are gleaming; Thunders rolling dread, Shake the mountain's head; Nature's war Echoes far, O'er ether borne, That flash The ash Has scath'd and torn!

In a few hours the whole estateworks, coolie barracks, negro hutswas black ash; and the house only, by extreme exertion, saved.

When this spark goes out it will leave behind a light, gray ash.

[Footnote 1: This is a play on words; Frêne in the French, meaning ash, and Coudre meaning hazel.]

Foremost among these may be mentioned the ash, to escape contact with which a serpent, it has been said, would even creep into the fire, in allusion to which Cowley thus writes: "But that which gave more wonder than the rest, Within an ash a serpent built her nest And laid her eggs, when once to come beneath The very shadow of an ash was death.

But now that heaven hath robbed me of the blaze Of that great fire which burned and nourished me, A coal that smoulders 'neath the ash am I. Unless Love furnish wood fresh flames to raise, I shall expire with not one spark to see, So quickly into embers do I die! LXV.

When for any reason they could not obtain ash, they used the wood of the choke-cherry tree, but this had not strength nor spring enough to be of much service.

"I heard the lance's shivering crash, As when the whirlwind rends the ash."Sir

A very handsome tree, resembling an ash, grew on the margin, bearing a beautiful white flower, four to five inches across, having on the inside a delicate tinge of yellow, and yielding a sweet scent like violets.

" The Icelanders have a curious idea respecting the mountain-ash, affirming that it is an enemy of the juniper, and that if one is planted on one side of a tree, and the other on the other, they will split it.

Cut round t'other side of 'im, Red, and we'll settle 'is 'ash!" Petrak started off to the left of him to circle and get behind me, and Long Jim began to draw near, cocking his pistol again and raising it and leering at me.

[Illustration] CHAPTER XX THE BLACK KINDERGARTEN I thought we were a thousand years rolling down that slope of smothering ash.

He snapped off its long ash and drew tremendously upon it.

It reminds us of the fellow who refused to take off Tom Ashe's coat, because it was felony to strip an ash; or the tanner who would not help the exciseman out of his pit without twelve hours' notice.

About two hundred years ago the mountain threw out so much ash that it covered a town sixty miles away. 11.

"I said you are good for propaganda," he resumed, tossing away ash with a reflective air.

'You know, my dear madam,' said the Doctor, just touching the ash of his pipe with his tobacco-stopper of chased silver, 'that the present lord is a very distant relative of the late one?' Lady Annabel bowed assent.