Beyond the postern were Giles and Black Roger with the horses, and Giles sang blithe beneath his breath, but Roger sighed oft and deep.

Long, long may stand, Not touched by Time, the Rectory blithe; No grudging churl dispute his Tithe; At Easter be the offerings due

Well, this foxy dame stuffed this airhole full of limberger cheese, so when it came time for his entrance instead of coming forth blithe and gay as per book, the comedian came out looking as if he had apoplexy, the same naturally causing the merry-merry to giggle ad lib.

The composer dashed a blithe flourish to the tail of a note.

But little enough did either Ted or Madeline reck of Fred's or any other opinion as they fared their blithe and care-free way that gala week.

Advancing to the balcony he answered her again: "The sun is king of everything, o'er all he holds his sway, And thou art like the sunthy charms I own and I obey; Thy beauty warms my veins again, and in its rays, forsooth, I feel the blithe, courageous mood of long-forgotten youth; Sure love of mine can harm thee not, as sunlight is not lost When its kind radiance dissolves the fetters of the frost.

I grew blithe as I saw it winking under the rays of the afternoon sun, and, clapping my hands, said I was glad to get home.

"Names must be made and printed be!" Hummed the blithe Colonel.

He jingled the small coins in his pocket and strode along, on the surface a blithe and carefree jackie on shore leave; a forlorn and lonely Texas boy, beneath.

" She spoke; and Bencerraje, upon his gallant bay, Was calling to her from the street, where he loitered blithe and gay,

No family in America could possibly have looked more "blithe and bonny" than did that one in "Sunday" clothes, ready for church.

Al be she looke more blithe on Gemulo Her heart is in the dyall of her eye, That poynts me hers.

Her son, the heir and resident of the plantation at Cannes Brulées, at the age ofthey do sayeighteen, had married a blithe and pretty lady of Franco-Spanish extraction, and, after a fair length of life divided between campaigning under the brilliant young Galvez and raising unremunerative indigo crops, had lately lain down to sleep, leaving only two descendantsfemaleshow shall we describe them?a Monk and a Fille à la Cassette.

interest while he picked his blithe way through the world on $2,500 a year, more or less, as chance ordained.

Prepare my cornered manchet sweet, And in my little crystal cup Pour out the blithe and flowering mead

The scenes described in that volume are matters of pleasing reminiscence, and to some of us who still remain "will recall that blithe and winning face, sagacious and sincere, that kindly, cheery voice, that rich and quiet laugh, that mingled sense and sensibility, which met, and still to our happiness meet, in her who, with all her gifts, never gratified her consciousness of these powers so as to give pain to any human being."

Never had he seen her so blithe, so gay.

Saying the which, Beltane caught the shoe from Giles's hold and strode away blithe and debonair, leaving the garrulous archer dumb for once and beyond all words amazed.

A hundred hearts beat placidly on, Unwitting they that their warder's gone; A hundred lips are babbling blithe, Some seconds hence they in pain may writhe.

Go on she would, in spite of my prayers, and what does she do when she comes tripping on, blithe and gay as a school girl, but stumble and do a slide on her profile half way across the O.P. side, just as the tenor was starting the chorus to his song, 'Bevey in Little Children.'

A glory of sun dappled their way with dancing shadows, flowers were a-bloom in bank and hedgerow, and birds carolled blithe in the fragrant air, what time Sir Benedict rode beside Beltane, his ponderous casque a-swing at saddle-bow; and oft he turned his grizzled head to view my thoughtful Beltane as one might look upon a son, new-found.