The magic crayons.

One morning Flora wished to purchase some colored crayons to finish a drawing she had begun.

It comes in a round pasteboard box nowadays, you know, Rudolph, with French mendacities all over the topand my eyebrows come in a fat crayon, and the healthful glow of my lips comes in a little porcelain tub.

She demurred at first, but she was pretty and knew it, and Philidor's tongue was persuasive, his nervous crayon eloquent.

Laura, with "the ruling passion strong in death," still tried to draw, but broke her pet crayon, and endowed her Clytie with a supplementary orb, owing to the dimness of her own.

He meditated long before this work which, with its dashes of paint flecking the thick crayon, spread a brilliance of sea-green and of pale gold among the protracted darkness of the charcoal prints.

"What d' you think of that?" he added, after a moment, triumphantly pointing a yellow crayon at the green-headed red-bird.

Opposite her, above the crowded mantelpiece and surmounted by a raffia wreath, the enlarged-crayon gaze of her deceased maternal grandfather, abetted by a horrible device of photography, followed her, his eyes focusing the entire room at a glance.