Pharaoh

Ahab's harpoon had shed older blood than the Pharaoh's.

"This fanciful writer pretends that its name was given to it after the passage of the Israelites, when Pharaoh perished in the waves which closed at the voice of Moses."

There amid the steam of vegetables and the vapours of acres of "ham and," the crash of crockery, the clatter of steel, the screaming of "short orders," the cries of the hungering and all the horrid tumult of feeding man, surrounded by swarms of the buzzing winged beasts bequeathed us by Pharaoh, Milly steered her magnificent way like some great liner cleaving among the canoes of howling savages.

Pharaoh, who is a cad, likes blue blood on the same principle of the attraction of opposites.

THAT same Thursday morning, as Arthur Donnithorne was moving about in his dressing-room seeing his well-looking British person reflected in the old-fashioned mirrors, and stared at, from a dingy olive-green piece of tapestry, by Pharaoh's daughter and her maidens, who ought to have been minding the infant Moses, he was holding a discussion with himself, which, by the time his valet was tying the black silk sling over his shoulder, had issued in a distinct practical resolution.

One of the forms of moral suasion by which Pharaoh was besought to favor the Israelities was a plague of frogs, but Pharaoh, who liked them fricasees , remarked, with truly oriental stoicism, that he could stand it as long as the frogs and the Jews could; so the programme was changed.

An' ez fer yeou, Uncle Salters, Pharaoh's chief butler ain't in it 'longside o' you!

Pharaoh's multitude that were drowned in the Red Sea, ain't more beyond restoring to life.

wonders sent 'midst thee, On Pharaoh and his servants too!"

'Danny Deever,' 'Pharaoh and the Sergeant,' 'Fuzzy Wuzzy,' 'The Ballad of East and West,' 'The Last Chantey,' 'Mulholland's Contract,' and many others, are splendidly stirring, but their colloquialism and general realism put them on a very different level from the work of the great masters who express the deeper truths in forms of permanent beauty.

The pride of the race was struck down as the first-born of Pharaoh. The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold-- the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry.

``May the wheels of their chariots be taken off,'' said the Jew, ``like those of the host of Pharaoh, that they may drive heavily!