He took a mouthful of supper, and then told Kelson that he had a headache and was going to walk back to the Golden Lion.

"I ain't achin' to stop at Pymeut," says his pardner with a superior air, standing up, as he swallowed his last mouthful of cold bacon and corn-bread, and cheerfully surveyed the waste.

" The prima donna, back for her engagement at eleven o'clock, came in flushed and smilingthe extraordinary warmth and fervour of her reception by the audience which she had at first been so inclined to treat with scant courtesy had restored her to good humour, and when she had eaten a few mouthfuls of delicate food and drunk her first glass of champagne she began to laugh almost light-heartedly.

One thing in particularif they offer you anything to eat, don't taste a mouthful of it.

All unusual learning, however, brings with it the suspicion of superficiality; and in this country, where, as Mr. Parker himself said, "every one gets a mouthful of education, but scarce one a full meal,"where every one who makes a Latin quotation is styled "a ripe scholar,"it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the true from the counterfeit.

"Nonsense," cried Dick, bolting two or three mouthfuls, and trying to look as if he liked it.

Maxime's comrade blew out a mouthful of smoke.

"My food don't do me no good when he's watching every mouthful I eat.

"It looks to me like Parker's sort of losing out," Chuck suddenly remarked, as he wiped his lips on the back of his hand after washing down a mouthful of the savory stew with gulps of steaming coffee.

Beneath, the shy and stately pickerel vanishes at a glance, shoals of minnows glide, black and bearded pouts frisk aimlessly, soft water-lizards hang poised without motion, and slender pickerel-frogs cease occasionally their submerged croaking, and, darting to the surface with swift vertical strokes, gulp a mouthful of fresh air, and down again to renew the moist soliloquy.

"I drank a whole mouthful, Commodus.

In the early morning, before the house-sparrow has chirped himself and his family into wakefulness, you catch the doleful and long-drawn cry of the early Fakir or Mahomedan beggar, whose object is not so much to wake the Faithful and bid them remember "the prayer that is better than sleep" as to be the earliest bird to catch the mouthful of Moslem charity.

I was told afterwards that many of these were people who had neither money nor tickets for foodsome of them wanderers from town to town; anybody may meet them limping, footsore and forlorn, upon the roads in Lancashire, just now houseless wanderers, who had made their way to the soup kitchen to beg a mouthful from those who were themselves at death's door.

The pigs ran across the yard carrying a mouthful of straw, and the cattle crowded into the sheds.

Near Osnabruck, Germany, an American visitor, pacing up and down a railroad siding early one morning, chewing a mouthful of stale sausage meat between thick crusts of rye bread, heard a particular cruelty story which may be used here as an example.

I went back into the house to find a mouthful for myself, so that I should not need to halt again until I was in Paris.

" More to please her than from a desire to eat, he forced down a few mouthfuls of it, and drank a little tea; then, laying his arm round her neck, he said, "Em, you must try hard to learn to write soon, so that I may hear from you at least once a week.

The flesh gave each of us a few mouthfuls; and how good those mouthfuls tasted!

He laughed and joked all alone, but he did not miss a mouthful.

The older ones, every one of them now a working engineer, investigated excitedly, breakfasting by nibbling off a mouthful of bark now and then.

Give them baled hay, and when they are trying to pick out a mouthful that is not spoiled, you drive along with a load of nice new-mown timothy or alfalfa, and see them make a rush for that load of hay, the way my ten-horse team did the other day for that load of cornstalks.

Raising his half-filled glass to the light, and rolling the last mouthful on his tongue, 'I am afraid,' he said, 'that what I heard in town was true?' 'What was it?'

For a moment or two my "catch" lay where he was, blowing, gasping, grunting, and spitting out mouthfuls of dirty water.

Mounting our horses, that had stood for the last two hours without touching a mouthful of the rank grass around them for want of water, we returned to the camp by a different route, through open grass flats bordering the deep reaches of water that encompass the north-west side of Ripon Island.

He generally walks behind, running off to one side or the other to crop a mouthful of grass, but no sooner does Dervish attempt to mount him, than he sets off at full gallop, and takes the lead of the caravan.