c." "Don't ask me to eat any dinner to-day," he exclaimed, when his wife came to fetch him.

"Diana, I am occupied; go and eat it up without me." "Nonsense, James," she answered, calmly; "you never get any clever thoughts by starving." Moved by this reasoning, he submitted, fed his wife and children and own good self, and then brought up a bottle of old Spanish wine to strengthen the founts of discovery.

Whose writing was that upon the broad marge of verbosity?
Why had it never been observed before?
Above all, what was meant by "v.

b.

c."?
Unaided, he might have gone on forever, to the bottom of a butt of Xeres wine; but finding the second glass better than the first, he called to Mrs.Jellicorse, who was in the garden gathering striped roses, to come and have a sip with him, and taste the yellow cherries.