" The Rev. John Brown of Whitburn was riding out one day on an old pony, when he was accosted by a rude youth: "I say, Mr. Broon, what gars your horse's tail wag that way?"

Being at last established in possession Cecil set to work, and at the same time set every agricultural tongue wagging within a radius of twenty miles.

"Hear, hear!" cried certain wags at a farther table.

I was a small boy then, and I did him the honour of playing truant"playing wag" we called it.

" The oldest boy looked up at the top of the tree, shut one eye, and gave his head a little wag.

And talked incessantly of every wrong, Kept her tongue wagging, until right was done.

You shall know more of him hereafter; but, good wags, let me winne you now for the Geographicall parts of your Ladies in requitall.

This was rather the forerunner of Mrs. Radcliffe's weird tales of supernatural mystery, which for a time so engrossed the public attention as to lead that "wicked wag," Mr. George Coleman, to regard them as representatives of the class, and to describe how

Why, lads, did I not meet that mad wag Simon of Ely, even at the famous fair at Hertford Town, and beat him in the ring at that place before Sir Robert of Leslie and his lady?

to bring up Oliver Cromwel from thence, returned the wag, to take care of the English affairs, for his successor takes none.

" Pros ventured no reply, save a wagging of the head.

Mortal man cannot conceive of the delicate shades of sentiment expressible by a dog's tail, unless he has studied the subjectthe wag, the waggle, the cock, the droop, the slope, the wriggle!

why don't you walk the plank at once, and prove yourself sober?" vociferated a long-tailed wag, determined not to slip this opportunity of having a shot on the sly at his first lieutenant, who had only a night or two before put his perpendicularity to a similar test.

Often, when waiting for troops to pass, you would ask, "What regiment is that?" and some-would-be wag would say, "Our regiment.

Yah! Scenery's all very proper, but where is the genuine pot Who'd pad the 'oof over the Moors, if it weren't for the things to be shot? "This swagger about killing birds is mere cant," sez this wobbling old wag.

External elegance has little to do with this celebrity, which has been acquired by the two wooden figures placed on a pediment in front, representing savages, who indicate the hours and quarters by striking a bell with their clubs: this has caused a wag to describe them as the most striking wonders of the metropolis.

XIII THE BARON Of the many queer characters who took up land in the brush hills near our ranch none excited greater tongue-wagging than the Baron.

" "What's the good of wireless when we've got wig-wagging and the semaphore code," spoke up Simon Jeffords, who was inclined to doubt the use of any other form of telegraphy but that in which he had perfected himself.

" A tyro interrogating a classical wag on the labours and sufferings of Homer, was shown the Iliad, and told that it was composed under great deprivation.