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have I given to him for servants, ajid with corn and wine have I sustained him; and what shall I now do unto thee, my son?" Isaac seems to have been moved to the depths of his being at the helpless condition in which he was left, and finally he blessed Esau; in other words, gave him what rem nants of blessing he still had at his disposal, "Behold thy dwelling shall be the fatness of

the earth and of the dew of heaven from above, and by thy sword shall thou live and shall serve thy brother, and it shall come to pass when thou shall have dominion lhat thou shall break his yoke from off thy neck." (Genesis 28: 39-40-) Jacob had been made ihe master by his father's formal gift, and the gift was irrevocable. This was the ancient Hebrew will.

EX PARTE ROLLO. Trespass quare claiisiim frcgit Just to serenade his Fair; Ferox canis, Pater's purchase, Lurked within the garden there! Dulcís carmen flowed from Rollo, But it melted not the brute Quid convertit Rollo's trousers— Will his next friend please bring suit? —The Brief.