So Del had borne practically the whole burden of filling the dreary, dragging hours for himwho could not speak, could not even show whether he understood or not.

He hated the whole dreary, dragging, needy home.

Thus leave the sermon dreary, Thus leave the lonely hearth; No more a spirit weary A free one of the earth! DEATH.

We would be forever heaping together possessions, dragging things into the cave of our finitude, our individual self, not perceiving that the things which pass that dreariest of doors, whatever they may have been, are thenceforth but 'straws, small sticks, and dust of the floor.'

" "We're having a little game here to pass the timeit's awful dreary these long rides.

Amid the drifting snows of winter, and the copious rains of summer, he was compelled to traverse the dreary, and almost unbroken forests of his field, and on more than one occasion he found the night around his camp-fire made hideous by the howling of wolves and the screaming of panthers.