" The rest of our team included the jovial miller; two of the village carpenter's sonsexcellent folk; the village curate, who captained the side, and stood six feet five inches without his cricket shoes; one or two farmers; a footman, and a somewhat fat and apoplectic butler.

Honest butler.

" Here the official paused, rang a bell, and remained silent until a quiet-looking, middle-aged man who might have been a highly respectable butler entered the room: then he turned again to his visitors.

Courage told his attentive listener all about Master Busy's surmises and his determination to probe the secrets of the mysterious crime, whichto be quite truthfulthe worthy butler with the hard toes had scented long ere it was committed, seeing that he used to spend long hours in vast discomfort in the forked branches of the old elms which surrounded the pavilion at the boundary of the park.

I therefore ate my meal alone, Davis, the grave old butler, serving me with that stateliness which always amused me.

There was a grand butler man met me at the hall door, and looked sourly at me as I leaned my bicycle against one of the pillars and made up to him.

I found a more moving appeal in the slight pathetic sketch of an old faithful butler by Mr. GEORGE MALLETT.

After a brief interval the door opened to admit a silent footed butler bearing a tray.

His myrmidon on this occasion was a little, red-nosed butler, who waddled about the house after his master, while the latter bounced from room to room like a cracker.

I have seen no stout, red-faced butler since I have been in England.

"Shall I give it hot or cold?" The distracted and irate butler took Andy to the sideboard and pushed a small soda into his hand, saying, "Cut the cord, you fool!"

The guileless group of English mechanics, whose sports are interrupted by the mischief of Puck, offers a strange contrast to the hideous trio of the 'jester,' the 'drunken butler,' and the 'savage and deformed slave,' whose designs are thwarted by the magic of Ariel.

I have seen no stout, red-faced butler since I have been in England.

I saw him withdraw his glove, and move the jewelled hand across his hair while passing the solemn butler, who gave it a quick recognition;the next moment we were seated.

Arthur, ushered by the excruciatingly fashionable butler into the smallest of the series of reception salons, fell straightway into the most melancholy spirits.

Nursed by a careful butler (or parlour-maid, as the case may be), a single bottle will sherry twelve guests, or, should the glasses be economical, thirteen.

BAL´DERSTONE (Caleb), the favorite old butler of the master of Ravenswood, at Wolf's Crag Tower.

Admirable, butler.

At six o'clock on the dreaded morning, the friendly old butler knocks at my room-door, to warn me that the mail will pass in half an hour at the end of the green lane.

These accursed Butlers seem inspired by hell itselfand Guy Johnson!What kind of a man is that, to take this young girl from Albany, where she had forgotten what a council-fire meant, and bring her here to these savagessacrifice her!undo all those years of culture and education!rouse in her the dormant traditions and passions which she had imbibed with her first milk, and which she forgot when she was weaned!

Rebottling his Wrath. BOTTLED BUTLER talks fierce against poor JOHN BULL, All the British he'd kill at one slap, With their bones Bully BEN a canal would fill full The one that he dug at Dutch Gap. *

Paredes turned and smiled at the haggard butler.

[Sidenote: A Show Place] I went to get the photograph of you I always have on my dressing-table, to show it to Lady Theodosia, and I met quite a troop of tourists on the stairs, and all the place railed off with fat red cords, and everything being explained to them by a guide who has the appearance of a very haughty butler, and lives here just to do this, and look after the things.

During the holidays he was called to the Bluffs in the middle of two consecutive nights, first to the Vanderveers, and requested to "drug" the second assistant butler, who was wildly drunk, and being a recent acquisition had been brought to officiate at the house party without due trial, "so that he wouldn't be used up the next day," and then to the Ponsonby's, where the family had evidently not yet gone to bed.

As for the other inhabitants of the big house, their minds were full of the events of the season: de luxe hunting parties, more society events than hunts; lunches in the woods served by uniformed butlers; launch rides up the river; arriving and departing guests.