... composltion of an Americean soldier. h 'Are yoa willing to render me aU important u I service? You have but to command me. u I1 will Cut conceal from you that the service I it ask at your hands requires not only discretion but pi extraordinary intrepiditv ...

... be four balls, two v far for the upper ten and two for us; the usual and military sports on the sands; also the usual horse and pony racing on the sands; review of Iher the Queen's Own ; firetworks; 'and on Saturday ve in the National Anthem, good-bye ...

... closer ? I know it is your fancy to be thought rough and harsh, bat I a know i-: I : It was such a little service ! Lee muttered. r ' was a great service, she replied, for you i n were my slvation ! And now, my friend, good. | o bye,sand tell all in the ...

... glorious panorama t,, before us. It was the happy task of a fsw di minutes only to learn tile names of the snow al kings and queens, including the Monk and the G Young Princess, into whose presence we lad a come, and in whose company we were to Snd a al ...

... Goiie at one felsopaeoth all the air castles she lies been ?? h last few weeks, gone all her vison f ?? e r shining as a queen of society, or g racefully e lact rug ing the lady bountiful in her stately country hor 3 home. All her bright visions have ...

... irt, legt The Wooden Horse. and Riding the wooden horse was a military punish- ato meet formerly much used so different services. :ot The wooden, horse, according to Captain Grose my (Military A~ntiqnities, 10d), was made of plaaks nailed together, so aii ...

... Fischart, who wrote in the middle of the sixteenth m; century. In our country, when a man has not been de -rewarded for his services, wve say, ' He is treated in H the same s-ay as the dog of Biretten,' There u-as so formerly in Bretten a sportsman, whose ...

... request. hi But soon little Freddy's head began to droop, warn- in ing his mother of the lateness of the hour. Ringing di for nurse to carry oft the sleepy child, Mrs. Whlxtmore se also desired the lamps to be lit and tea prepared for her husband. H On this ...

... translated a mes~llows:-- May press kings be the nursing fatiren and piou~s queens the lrersing rmothora of this church 16:14. ?? ceiling, which also contains the ares tand devices. of Charles i,., his Queen, the Prince oi .\Vales, die., as well as a beautiful ...

... interest a few who care for such things to read had the following little tale-especiially at this time, T when our revered Queen is visiting the fair affir Italian city she loves so well, and where these suci incidents, more or less founded on fact, tooit ...

... to them. The sole representative of the family remaining at the ?? of Queen Mary was Sir Richard i Baker. ?? had spent ?? years abroad, in conse- s quence of a duel; but when Queen Mary reigned he s thoughb hel might safely return, as he was aPapist. ...

... F.P. (Basingstoke).-Too lengcthly. , c J.M. (Guernsey), and F.R.D. (Wilson-groye). 3 -The books are too well known. WV.L. (Queens-terrace).-H. H. (Green-road), s and C.F.C. (Portsea).-Previotssly given. ( R .N. (Mfalta).-Tlhe naval stories-with one f short ...