At last the gaunt old tax-gatherer got up to go, and my friend said, "I hope we will have a glass together next year."

[Illustration: The ex-Kaiser is appointed to the post of official gatherer of scraps of paper.

So far removed from your sour parochial or state-gatherers,those ink-horn varlets, who carry their want of welcome in their faces!

An English monarch is now as much the creature of an Act of Parliament as the pettiest tax-gatherer in his realm.

(the preacher, originally gatherer), the Hebrew name for the book of Ecclesiastes, and a personification of wisdom.

So far removed from your sour parochial or state-gatherers,those ink-horn varlets, who carry their want of welcome in their faces!

Perhaps he has some theory that thousands of facts must prove and illustrate; or it may be he is a voracious gatherer of statistics.