Such thoughts were forced upon me as the steamer stopped off San Fernando; and I saw, some quarter of a mile out at sea, a single stack of rock, which is said to have been joined to the mainland in the memory of the fathers of this generation; and on shore, composed, I am told, of the same rock, that hill of San Fernando which forms a beacon by sea and land for many a mile around.

They burned the stacks, and so found a way to force the rich people to attend to them."

The man's got stacks of evidence to prove that I did.

Farmers always count rye-stacks in the morning, in order to discover whether any of them have been lifted during the night.

"No," said Dolan, sweeping with a glance the stacks of cases and crates that half filled the single floor of the warehouse.

The stump stood some thirty feet high, crumbling into tinder and dust, though its death was so recent that the creepers and parasites had not yet had time to lay hold of it, and around its great spur-roots lay what had been its trunk and head, piled in stacks of rotten wood, over which I scrambled with some caution, for fear my leg, on breaking through, might be saluted from the inside by some deadly snake.

I heard the Officer boy telling the Troop Sergeant that he'd buy a hay-stack some day and try to burst you, Tubby.

One morning during the first week in February, the steamer from Aden brought stacks of mailthe customary newspapers, magazines, novels, telegrams and letters.

Then they went below, to find a stack of presents awaiting them.

One more day would finish the stacks, and as this was the last threshing to be done in the neighborhood, the greatest effort was put forth to finish it before the weather broke.

In the evening so anxious are they to fire the stack, that lanterns may be seen glimmering in all parts of the field

In the fields the women (for the men were at the front) were gathering the crops, the stacks of golden grain stretched from village to village.

By midnight he was hoarse with repeating, parrot-wise, "That's goodgive me another stack."

Mark handed him a stack of paper, showed Zip what to look for, and went back to his own study.

This is a great hayfield, and the people come from far to cut and store the hay for the winter, when they harness the stacks and drag them bodily to their villages on the snow, which sometimes falls, they told me, to the depth of fifteen or more feet.

He can't hit a hay-stack, but he's none the worse for that.

The dark room we have made Boggley's study; as he only uses it at night, it doesn't matter about the want of light, and there is a fine large writing-table which holds stacks of papers.

These threatened to ignite the contiguous stacks.

I get all my timber herelook at that!" He indicated the stacks of beams and lumber around him.

Everywhere the lava cliffs are freshly broken, toppling down in dust and boulders, and leaving detached stacks and skerries, like that called the 'Indians,' from its supposed likeness to a group of red-brown savages afloat in a canoe.

Lawlor commenced loading the stack of plates before him, each with a slab and a potato or two.

[Illustration: A rustic Bridge, close by some Men making a Hay-stack.]

Two menunder the hay-stack all yesterday morning.

And with that he nodded his hay-stack of a head three times at me, and going to the hedge-root he laid hold of the top of a young poplar and turned him about, keeping the stem of it over his shoulder.

Here we observed several remarkable stacks of dead mangroves, evidently piled together by the natives, but for what purpose we could not ascertain, unless to escape upon from the tide when fishing.