...stock of all varieties. Now, a child — lively, mischievous, inquisitive — -peered forth over the head of a battering ram. Now, a lean, hungry sheep,...head of a withered old woman, pillowed on his woolly llanks. Here, appeared a young girl, struggling half entombed in shields. There, gasped an emaciated...

...stock of all varieties. Now, a child — lively, mischievous, inquisitive — peered forth over the head of a battering ram. Now, a lean, hungry sheep, advanced his inquiring nostrils saillv to the open air ; and displayed by the movement the head of a withered old woman, pillowed on...

...varieties. Now a child—lively, mischievous, inquisitive—peered forth over the head of a battering-ram. Now a lean, hungry sheep advanced his inquiring nostrils...with its background of great woods, drenched in a vapor of misty rain; with its striking contrasts at one point and its solemn harmonies at another,...