Pepper was asleep; but woke, as I entered, and wagged his tail, in recognition.

'He always looks towards the place where the wind comes from,' replied the father; 'when he gets too warm, and the sun is too hot for him, he turns his tail to the south, and the north wind is sure to come down, cold and chill, to cool him off.'

If I were to cut off the tail, I should cease to find any spontaneous motion in it; but on pinching any portion of the flesh, I should observe that it underwent a very curious changeeach fibre becoming shorter and thicker.

However, before the end was come even a hasty reader whose eye was nimble on the page would be blowing on his nails and pulling his tails between him and the November wind.

"Speaking to a lady," says a correspondent of the Athenaeum (Feb. 5, 1848), "of the difficulty which I had always found in getting a slip of myrtle to grow, she directly accounted for my failure by observing that perhaps I had not spread the tail or skirt of my dress, and looked proud during the time I was planting it.

An old cow that switches her tail at flies and puts her foot in the bucket when you milk her, I absolutely loathe.

Then she threw off all repression and so waved her tail that she regularly got it across the reins.

Everybody who has taken the trouble to make the journey, of course, advises other people to do the same, and insists that it is worth the time, money, and fatigue it costs, on the same principle as the fox that lost his tail in a trap wanted all the other foxes to cut off their tails.

Here, unless you would be smirched, it is necessary to walk fast and hold your coat-tails in.

Few things could make Kazan drop his tail.

Whether going up or down, he carries his tail extended at full length in line with his body, unless it be required for gestures.

A desperate suit 'twas useless to prefer, Or hope to catch a tail of quicksilver.

But there is certainly nothing in the study of physical science to interfere with genial hilarity; though, indeed, some solemn persons have been wont to reprove the members of the British Association, and specially that Red Lion Club, where all the philosophers are expected to lash their tails and roar, of being somewhat too fond of mere and sheer fun, after the abstruse papers of the day are read and discussed.

He knows that I can't chase him, now that my legs are so stiff with rheumatism, and he takes delight in showing me how spry he can be, darting around me and whisking his tail almost in my face, and trying to get me to run after him, so that he can laugh at me.

The jackal fled, leaving his tail in the lion's mouth.

"'Wen yo' see a pig agoin' along Widder straw en de sider 'is mouf, It'll be a tuhble winter, En yo' bettuh move down Souf.'" He jumped up and dashed into a breakdown, clattering the bones, and screeching: "'Squirl he got a bushy tail, Possum's tail am bah, Raccoon's tail am ringed all roun' Touch him ef yo dah!

"What was that the old señor was telling me about these beasts? Didn't he say they jerked their tail to and fro like a pendulum, and made a queer noise just before they jumped?

And our fathers will wear one tail, as did their ancestors, who curled those appendages gracefully around the limbs of the trees while they played base-ball with cocoanuts, or visited in that nimble manner in which none other than monkeys are capable of moving about.

Arriving he tied their tails to the branches of a young palm-tree, and twisted them well.

Or perhaps a friendly fly would come to our assistance and Dolly would have to use her tail in another direction.

"'Wait a moment,' said he, curling up his shaky tail, 'the costswho pays the costs?' "'The costs!'

They've given up believing politicians, and they're learning how to twist the politicians' tails.

Let them alone and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.

I did not see anyone else shoot at him, but I saw the lion's tail erected in anger behind the bush, and, turning to the people said, "Stop a little, till I load again."

The dog had seized his coat-tail, and had pulled it forward, so that he stood face to face with the Squire, who was vainly trying to free himself by poking at his adversary with a great baggy umbrella.