He" "You're talking I.W.W. rot," whispered Kurt, shaking with the effort to subdue his feelings.

I've met a heap of men who were idling through life because they'd made money or inherited it, and so far as I could see, about all that they could do was to read till they got the dry rot, or to booze till they got the wet rot.

"'Orderedordered, that the defendant, Horse's Neck Extension Mining Company, show cause at a stated term to be held in and for'" "I said to cut the legal rot!"

" "Tommyrot," exclaimed Javert, "tommy-rot!"

" "Excuse all this rot, Mr. Montgomery," said the University man, in a genial voice.

As an improvement of method the seed was now being given in many cases a preliminary rotting in compost heaps, with a consequent speeding of its availability as plant food; and cotton seed rose to such esteem as a fertilizer for general purposes that many planters rated it to be worth from sixteen to twenty-five cents a bushel of twenty-five pounds.

You never heard such stinking rot.

E. D.The herb should be gathered when in flower, great care taken in drying it, and kept in a very dry airy place, to prevent its rotting or growing mouldy, which it is very apt to do.

Hope at last springs up elate, That the living shall no more Corpse-like rot, as heretofore,

Think o' this drowning in the flood o' yearsthe stately ships sunk an' rotting in oblivion; some word of it, sor, may well go into thy book.

" "Well, skip all the legal rot and get to the point," directed Greenbaum.

The night is dark, and evermore The thick drops patter on the pane The wind is weary of the rain, And round the thatches moaneth sore; Dark is the night, and cold the air; And all the trees stand stark and bare, With leaves spread dank and sere below, Slow rotting on the plashy clay, In the God's-acre far away, Where she, O God!

Unfortunately, timber both rots and burns, and this bond timber has brought down many a wall owing to its being destroyed by fire, and has in other cases decayed away, and caused cracks, settlements, and failures.

" "You mean she didn't see him write it?" "Look here, Lester," demanded Godfrey impatiently, "you don't mean to say that you believe any such rot?" "No," I answered; "I don't see how I can believe itand

The I.A. I dunno what you've got where your 'ed ought to be, torking such rot!

And therefore belike Solomon, Prov. xiv. 13, calls it, "the rotting of the bones," Cyprian, vulnus occultum;

The war will reveal to the British both their strength and weakness, and if the war does not destroy the dry rot in the land, then it is merely the precursor of Britain's final downfall.