"When COTTON MATHER came over in the Grate Eastern, he sent out a dove to see if the Pilgrims, would allow her to pick any flowers off of Plymouth Rock.

Four dames preceded their lady, bearing four white doves in their hands.

"Has Verty seen the dove?" she said.

Gwendolaine, by the great Holy Grail I caught an eagle when I caught that dove, For now you are the queen of all the dames, Even King Constantine, who seldom marks A lady of the court, comes to your side And flatters you with royal courtesies, Which you receive with far too proud a grace; For, wit ye

I recognized him just as I was making an instinctive dive for Savaroff's revolver, under the unpleasant impression that Hoffman and the other German had returned from the post-office.

On going to shoot doves, we, to our astonishment, put up a snipe.

But immediately he realized that Tom was only executing his pet drop, the nose-dive.

Jemshíd drew the string, and the arrow struck the female dove so skilfully as to transfix both the wings, and pin them together.

I could swim like a duck, you know, and though it was filthy water I took a long dive.

The very next train took me to the old familiar trysting-place, once more the white-winged dove of peace brooded over the Bmansion, and we all, especially the parents, fully realized that in order to appreciate heaven we must have at least seven days of hell.

One scene represents the meeting of S. Joachim and S. Anna outside a mediaeval city's walls, and it has some pretty Giottesque touches, such as the man carrying doves to the Temple and the angel uniting the two saints in friendliness; and the other is the Birth of the Virgin, which Ruskin was so pleased to pit against Ghirlandaio's treatment of the same incident.

" We cannot cage the lion's rage, Nor teach the turtle-dove Beside what well his moan to tell Or to haunt one only grove; But the lion's brood will range for food As the fledged bird will rove.

is it love? Tell me, tell me, gentle dove.

we haven't got even a dove to send out.

His cradle was lined with the softest feathers, and lamp representing a dove burned continually over it; three nurses rocked him night and day, and with his pink cheeks and blue eyes, brocaded cloak and embroidered cap he looked like a little Jesus.

But Omemee (a name which means a dove) thought to herself: "'My father and mother and the rest of the family will soon be returning to the wigwam, tired and hungry, and the best thing I can do will be to have a good dinner ready for them all.'

I watched her feed the doves, who seemed to be her only friends; she never forgot them, and daily gave them the few crumbs that fell from her meagre table.

For, stronger than the subtle spell That homeward draws the carrier-dove, Are the sweet bonds that clearly tell Of Friendship welded into Love.

For only Prince knew how and where and under what guidance he had found the little friend of the Lord's friends sleeping in the snow, with but a white dove in his bosom to keep him from becoming a boy of ice.

He came again and again, and at last contrived to tame this wild dove, and even to get the entrée of the cottage.

In the ways of chivalrie.' He followed the dove that Wood-Lyon By mere and wood and wold, Till he is come to a perfect knight, Like the Paladin of old.

I saw how she sold everything that would bring money and paid her little debts to the utmost penny; how she set her poor room in order for the last time; how she tenderly bade the doves good-by, and lay down on her bed to die.

In a birch-grove sat the wood-dove on a naked branch, and before him stood the lady-dove.

There is in it the place where Sakra, Ruler of Devas, in a former age, tried the Bodhisattva, by producing a hawk in pursuit of a dove, when the Bodhisattva cut off a piece of his own flesh, and with it ransomed the dove.

Just another phase of the same thing which brings the doves out of Mr. Hermann's empty hat.