Greater examples are seen in his Battle of Narva, when he threw away an army to learn his opponent's game; in his building of St. Petersburg, where, in draining marshes, he sacrificed a hundred thousand men the first year.

"Then we cut back for home and crossed the marsh.

She said, 'I will never, never leave the marsh.'

LVIII.Labienus at first attempted to raise vineae, fill up the marsh with hurdles and clay, and secure a road.

We had skirted the marsh, keeping just inside of the thicket, and now when the bear disappeared we settled ourselves for a long wait should he again come into the open.

"As for me," said Bandy-legs, who had been doing considerable thinking while all this talk went on, "I mean to try and hunt up a few of those bouncer frogs Roland here says inhabit his marsh.

"These two events made me stop everything else and devote myself entirely to getting my boats out of the little river by which I had entered the marsh, and which was now almost quite dried up.

But if there is danger while I am absent get out and go straight westward until you find the marsh, then keep along its banks due south," and drawing up the boat to the bank the shrewd, big-boned fellow disappeared into the dark undergrowth.

"If we disembark we shall be compelled to make a detour of fully four days in the forest, in order to pass the marshes," he pointed out in a low whisper.

The most notable dinner guests were the great jabiru storks; the stately creatures dotted the marsh.

I was wondering who the Silver Foxes would elect for their patrol leader and then I got to thinking how nobody, not even my mother and father, would ever know what became of me, because you can't drag a marsh like you can a river.

They replied, "The Sun is bad enough even while he is single, drying up our marshes with his heat as he does.

Beyond the rising ground which formed the opposite bank of the stream, extended a marsh of perhaps three hundred yards across.

He knew that a long tongue of the slough filled by the rising tide followed the marsh, and lay between him and the hacienda.

The snipe and duck hunters forsook the marsh, and the wood-cutters abandoned the canal.

In very wet seasons it resorts to the hills, but at other times frequents marshes, where it can penetrate the earth with its bill, hunting for worms, which form its principal food.

And the magician of Allathurion answered: 'He is the dragon-crocodile who haunts the Northern marshes and ravages the homesteads by their marge.

" They duly inspected the marsh where Obed hunted his big greenback frogs when he thought the crop warranted a thinning out.

At last, the day arrives when the sea, inundating the marshes, bending the mangroves, reaches, on the sandy platform, one of the corners of his raft.

On the morning of the 19th, my friend and his hunter went up the shore to investigate a small marsh lying a mile or so from camp.

Turn after turn, and the marshes still kept us companythe quiet, lone marshes that had come to have such a charm for us.

Then Leothric advanced into the marshes, and the eye of Tharagavverug looked out warily from the hilt of Sacnoth; for Tharagavverug had known the marshes well, and the sword nudged Leothric to the right or pulled him to the left away from the dangerous places, and so brought him safely to the fortress walls.

On this hand, on the opposite bank, lay the flat marshes of Lambeth; while nearer stood the old bull-baiting and bear-baiting establishments, the flags above which could be discerned above the tops of the surrounding habitations.

Illustration #2 "A map" As long as there's any sign of a trail you can't get me rattled, but cracky, I don't like marshes.

'I love the marshes,' said the little Wild Thing with the new soul. 'Indeed!