Not the one who rides the donkey and tells such funny stories?" "Oh, yaw," declared the musician in a matter-of-fact way.

He succeeded, occasionally, in killing a deer in the forest, and when he did so, he would lead his donkey to the place of slaughter, and bring in the carcase on the long-eared animal's back.

[The boy mounts the donkey.

He had means enough to buy a donkey for his wife to ride, and trudged along with a caravan on foot beside the animal to protect her and the panniers which contained all their earthly possessions.

It was about midnight when I left home, dressed in a soldier's uniform and driving a donkey before me.

Fyfe's gang loaded their donkey and gear aboard the scow and went home.

There they left their donkey with a peasant, telling him they would return in a fortnight's time and claim it.

whether good or evil, who should say? As I neared the top I heard the turnkey urging the donkey to trot faster in the wheel, so that the bucket might rise the quicker, but just before my head was level with the ground he set the break on and fixed me where I was.

In vain we told them that we would engage no donkeys at all, and no horses till we reached our destination; in vain we bade them allow us to "pursue the even tenor of our way" in peace, and hush their high soprano tones.

Old Roger told me he found his donkey quite early in the afternoon.

When we reached the house, I set the men to unload the donkeys; whilst Wentworth and I set-to and sealed all the doors, except the main entrance, with tape and wax; for if the doors were really opened, I was going to be sure of the fact.

I was accompanied by my neighbour Decros, who gave his donkey on this occasion a half-holiday.

Hermia followed, guiding the donkey.

"I asked you how you would like a donkey, instead of a horse, meaning, in fact, to ask if Fodder would, for the time, answer your warlike and gallant purposes?

And we have lost our donkey in the bargain!

Why, you two fellows are better able to carry the poor donkey than he you!

Fred fortunately spied the donkey, and though there had been lately a little emulation between them, who should grow the finest dahlias, he at once carried out the principle of returning good for evil, drove the donkey off, even though his course lay over his own flower beds, and then set to work to repair the damage done.

One afternoon, when everybody slept Except the belle, out from her house she crept, And met the donkey, walking on the way; He smelt the calf and thought to have some play.

Years ago, in my Session days, I remember a poor and, I am afraid, dishonest client of mine being transported for life (on a second conviction for larceny) for stealing a donkey; but I doubt if that could happen nowadays.

"Let me hear you read a little in it, if you please," said he, stopping his donkey.

And when each a shoulder Had put to the wheel, They helped the poor donkey

The most part were on foot, or bestriding tiny donkeys, but a stately Caïd rode alone at the end of the line on a horse saddled with crimson velvet, and to him our officer appealed.

In the first place, the native Indian servant bestrode a donkey, carrying at the same time our beautiful baby in his arms, who wore a pink silk bonnet, and had a parasol over her head.

When the unhappy man tried to explain how he had mistaken her little donkey for a lion, she thought he was making fun of her, and belaboured him with her umbrella.

Behind these again the beginnings of a cut had eaten a hole in the forest,a slashing different from the ordinary logging slash, for it ran narrowly, straight back through the timber; whereas the first thing a logger does is to cut all the merchantable timber he can reach on his limit without moving his donkey from the water.