Tradition, speaking from the dim and shadowy past, tells us of the vast numbers of these sagacious and harmless animals which congregated in these regions, living in undisturbed quiet and happiness all the year, building their dams, their canals, and cities on all the ponds, rivers, and lakes hereabouts.

But in the two or three places where he found plenty of the bark on which they lived it would have been difficult to have constructed a dam.

" "I am seldom melancholy, and still more seldom idle," replied the good dame.

So, unable to cope singly with whole tribes of his enemies, he worked to destroy their dams.

The grocer chanced to be out at the time, and the gallant, who had probably watched him go forth, deriding the remonstrances of the younger Bloundel and Leonard, marched straight to the inner room, where he found the dame and her daughter.

Afterwards, by their counsel, Constantine took to wife a dame who was come of gentle Roman blood.

Marry, if our stout Sheriff catcheth me without disguise, I am like to be run up more quickly than thy sons, let me tell thee, dame.

"But who would want to blow up the dam?" asked Blake.

She good, but she don't care a dam' what people say.

But now, in such case, to Constance, as his widow, would be left even the leavings, the overseer's cottage; which was one more convenient reason for detestingnot him, nor Constancethat would be to waste good ammunition; but "Still thinking of dear Anna?" asked the dame.

" "You mustn't say such things as that, young gentleman," returned the dame.

And as he rode into the town and galloped to the square, Upon the balconies he saw bright dames with faces bare; They stood, they gazed with eyes of love and gestures of delight, For they joyed to see among them so stout, so fair a knight.

THE WEANING OF CALVES is a process that requires a great amount of care and judgment; for though they are in reality not weaned till between the eighth and the twelfth week, the process of rearing them by hand commences in fact from the birth, the calf never being allowed to suck its dam.

Mordred had kept this love close, for easy enough it was to hide, since who would be so bold as to deem that he loved his uncle's dame?

" "General, I think the scouts are mistaken," said I, "for the Beaver has more water near its head than it has below; and at the place where we will strike the stream we will find immense beaver dams, large enough and strong enough to cross the whole command, if you wish.

On reaching the dam that he had formerly visited, he was agreeably surprised to find that it had been nearly filled by the late rains.

" But Miss de Long's voice and tears had burst the dam of control.

It takes a dame to figure a dame.

"Who the hell would marry a dame like that?" he sobbed.

For sure she has been thought a bashful dame.

Across the lower end of the bed of a brook which was nearly dried up, and in which there were only a few rivulets left running, they had fastened a hurdle of bamboo, and thrown up a shallow dam behind it.

'T will be deceiving the Queen and the Prince, both. DAME.

However, cost me what it may, I cannot meet the lovely dame.

Some say that bright majority Of vanished dames and men!

Two instincts were at work: it was natural to follow their dams, but Mireside was their native heath and they knew they were going to be taken home.