He stared hard at me, and brought his rifle to the challenge as I approached hima six-foot, black-bearded stalwart he was, with a long row of campaign ribbons, and the true, truculent Sikh way of carrying his head.

The noble was still victorious, but he had changed his religion; and this time the Roman Catholic was feeble, and the Protestant stalwart.

He had gathered these three stalwarts to help him to his purpose, and if he lived he would lead yet others to failure.

You would fancy you saw a stalwart, strapping Hindoo before you.

Men superabound Men stalwart, vigilant, patient, bold; The stokehole's heat and the crow's-nest's cold, The choking dusk of the noisome mine, The northern blast o'er the beating brine, With dogged valour they coolly brave; So on rattling rail, or on wind-scourged wave, At engine lever, at furnace front, Or steersman's wheel, they must bear the brunt Of lonely vigil or lengthened strain.

My name is TroubleI'm a busy bloke I am the test of Courageand of Class I bind the coward to a bitter yoke, I drive the craven from the crowning pass; Weaklings I crush before they come to fame; But as the red star guides across the night, I train the stalwart for a better game; I drive the brave into a harder fight.

Hitherto the government of the day has secured a parliamentary majority by corrupting and terrorising the non-Magyar constituencies of the periphery and thus out-voting the radical Magyar stalwarts of the great plain; and with the loss of the Slovak, Ruthene and Roumanian districts this system would automatically collapse.