I'm going to be part of the opposition," added the youthful "Rats," beaming with delight, "and I have got a whole heap of paper bags I'm going to burst while Fletcher's speaking.

"I thought a heap of my young mistress," he added, in evident apology for this display of what such men call weakness.

Dust and dirt everywhere; piled in little heaps in the corners, and spread about upon the furniture.

Haply the Tartar-monarch slipt away, Not doomed to suffer on that bloody day; And freed from thrall, he hurrying led His legions cross the boundary-stream, Leaving his countless heaps of dead To rot beneath the solar beam.

Callista is always ready to testify of herself that she is an imaginative person, and sometimes adds in illustration, that if she had taken a walk and seen an old heap of stones on her way, the account she would give on returning would include many pleasing particulars of her own invention, transforming the simple heap into an interesting castellated ruin.

On her lap lay a heap of roses, and in her hand she held a shepherd's crook.

The settler who had left his cabin at daybreak in search of game, or to carry his furs to the nearest post, returned at sundown to find only a smoking heap of ashes where his home had been, and among them the charred and mutilated bodies of his wife and children.

THE ACHIEVEMENT X. THE DOOM ILLUSTRATIONS "And you know a heap too much" A schooner comporting herself in a manner uncommon on the Pacific A man who was a bit of a mechanic was set to work to open the chest Slowly the man defined himself as a shape takes form in a fog "These sheep had become as wild as deer" The firing now became miscellaneous.

Now, I want you to k-k-know that I think Obed the s-s-straight g-g-goods, and I'm taking a heap of s-s-stock in seeing that bully f-f-fur f-f-farm of his tomorrow; ain't you, Max?" "Certainly I am," replied the other, without a second's hesitation.

The company can afford the royalty, Joe, for it is making a heap of moneymore than I wish it were.

"She sets a heap of store by what I say.

" A dozen bold fishermen, who knew the coast well, went out in their boats, hugging the rocky shore until the promontory was gained, and gathering up great heaps of driftwood on the edge of the bluff, set it on fire, and pulled back.

"Then you agree with me, it would save us all a heap of trouble to let him have them without any more stalling?"

All those little ones thrown to the gutter, like superfluous kittens are flung into some sewer, all those forsaken ones, those wanderers of the pavement who beg, and thieve, and indulge in vice, form the dung-heap in which the worst crimes germinate.

I did not regard it as of much value then, though it has since brought a heap of money to its owners.

At the beginning of the action no more than forty men had been stationed in the "horn-works," and it seemed to me as if the entire stockaded portion was surrounded by a dancing horde of howling, maddened Indians, who, bringing with them tree-trunks or stout branches, were throwing up such a heap of odds and ends as admitted of their gaining the top of the logs despite the fire which our people were pouring upon them.

HE DID COME, and Egypt sank a ruinous heap, and her blood closed over her.

Then, as the Boy gaped incredulously: "She tell me heap long time ago she want Joe."

She raised a heap of it, this year; and the things she turns it into would drive a cook-book crazy.

They had learned heaps through their many camping experiences; and some time before a visit to an old trapper had initiated them into dozens of secrets of the craft that would never be forgotten.

It wasn't fair to the country to let it spend a heap of money on a fellow who might "crock up" in the first week or two.

'Tis now the raven's bleak abode; 'Tis now th' apartment of the toad; And there the fox securely feeds; And there the poisonous adder breeds Concealed in ruins, moss, and weeds: While, ever and anon, there falls Huge heaps of hoary mouldered walls.

Then, as I stirred the heap with my foot, it occurred to me that this could only happen in a great space of time.

I heard my folks talk a heap about oldern times.

That was a welcome sound to a set of ravenous boys, and they quickly assembled around the rude table upon which the black chef was placing heaps of flapjacks, flanked by steaming cups of fragrant coffee.