"If anybody," he observed, "should ask right this minute where I'm at, tell 'em for me, Mrs. Kaufman, I'm in the most comfortable chair in the house.

Among these comes the idea of training to service for the community, and the provision of suitable furniture, little chairs and tables, which the children can move about, and low cupboards for materials, all of which tend to independence and self-control.

" The Boy drew a tired breath, and sat down without bidding in one of the wooden chairs.

" He pushed me into a vacant chair at the bottom of the table, and gave some orders to the negro.

"Philip, what have you been doing with yourself?" I sat down on the nearest chair and gasped, gazing at him.

He was truly a prodigious man, and one could understand the stoutness with which the invalid chair was made.

In the discourse that followed, Mr. Noble briefly sketched the early history of the president, and then devoted some time to the many grand deeds he had accomplished during the time he had been in the presidential chair.

The great room with its dingy wainscot only half lighted by the candles on the table before us, was cluttered with a hundred odds and ends that collect in a deserted housea ladder, a stiff, rusted bridle, a coil of frayed rope, a kettle, a dozen sheets of the Gazette, empty bottles, dusty crockery and broken chairs.

Mr. Tutt would have gone to the electric chair rather than see the Hepplewhite Tramp, as he was popularly called by the newspapers convicted of a crime, but the very fact that he had become his legal champion interjected a new element into the situation, particularly as O'Brien, Mr. Tutt's arch enemy in the district attorney's office, had been placed in charge of the case.

"Restored what my incomprehensible lawyers call the status quo; achieved peace with honor; carried off the spoils of war; andin shortarranged everything," answered Mrs. Pendomer, and sank into a rustic chair, which creaked admonishingly.

These eight antique chairs, going at fifteen!going!

Cæsar wore a triumphal robe that day, and seated himself in a golden chair upon the rostra, to see the ceremony.

CHAPTER IV A DISSATISFIED SHAREHOLDER Cartwright had read the morning's letters and the Journal of Commerce, and finding nothing important, turned his revolving chair to the fire.

In the room across the hall Mr. Everidge reclined in his luxurious arm-chair and leisurely turned the pages of the last "North American Review."

The horns on his head were like an old-fashioned round-posted chair, and if they hadn't a dozen prongs on 'em, you may skin me!

She went frequently to Meeting at Norwich, drawn in her wheeled chair, and thence ministering with wonderful life and power to those present.

Only one of the upstairs rooms had ever been furnished, and it now contained a corded wooden bedstead, a cheap pine table and one broken-legged chair.

The give of velvet-upholstered chairs, perfumed darkness, and any old love story moving across it to the ecstatic ache of Gertie Slayback's high young heart.

I suppose I must have walked; but my first distinct remembrance is of finding myself sitting in my favourite chair, pipe in hand.

So the dice were cogged from the start, and I have seen a plain kitchen chair sold for fifty pounds of sweet-scented, or something like the price at which a joiner in Glasgow would make a score and leave himself a handsome profit.

He was born at Sarzana, in the republic of Genoa, about 1398, was ordained priest at the age of twenty-five, became Archbishop of Bologna, and in 1447 was elevated to the papal chair.

I did not wonder in the morning to receive a summons from my aunt, and I found her in her accustomed chair before the table piled with papers.

What uncomfortable chairs they had in this station!

" She fell to rocking herself in the straight chair.

This Mr. George Powler was a heavy thick-set man, approaching middle age, with the air of a prosperous merchant, and with a somewhat shy and awkward manner; it seemed to Ida that he looked rather bored as he sat on one of the stiff, uncomfortable chairs, with the mother and daughter "engaging him in conversation," as they would have called it.