The foreman showed him what to do, and Casey did it, using a "double-jack" and a lot of energy.

The piazza of Grassina, which, although merely a village, is enterprising enough to have a cinematoscope hall, was full of stalls given chiefly to the preparation and sale of cake like the Dutch wafelen, and among the stalls were conjurors, cheap-jacks, singers, and dice throwers; while every moment brought its fresh motor-car or carriage load, nearly all speaking English with a nasal twang.

"It's worse than the yellow jack.

He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loafour crugmoistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

The contestant who smiles most woodenly may receive as a prize a gaily painted wooden jumping jack or any other wooden toy.

" "Your predecessor had some success at opening doors with a hydraulic jack, I believe, in some very difficult raids," put in Kennedy.

And the eyes of those little boys, lively as a parcel of mice, sparkled in advance with the joy of seeing in their imagination pink paper bags filled with cakes, lead soldiers drawn up in battalions in their boxes, menageries smelling of varnished wood, and magnificent jumping-jacks covered with purple and bells.

He's off to see some other girl; That's why mere jacks from Jack. Hyacinths.

There were no intruders, unless the noisy whisky-jacks, the big-eyed moose-birds, the chattering bush sparrows, and the wood-mice and ermine could be called such.

That was the real stuff,prime old apple-jack 'at I'd had in my cellar ten year last Christmas; an' it jest toled that feller across the bay, and captered him, without no manner of diffikilty.

For he had a supernumerary jack of hearts, neatly palmed, to turn up if Steve "bit."

Now, you well remember that I have always passionately adopted the cause of the minor third, and was angry that you theoretical cheap-jacks would not allow it to be a donum naturæ.

If once we be in love, young or old, though our teeth shake in our heads, like virginal jacks, or stand parallel asunder like the arches of a bridge, there is no remedy, we must dance trenchmore for a need, over tables, chairs, and stools, &c. And princum prancum is a fine dance.

"There were five gray-jacks out in the stable, all asleep, an' they was like lambs.

We had been lucky in our burro buying, and he had two of the fastest walking jacks in the country, so that he was able to give them a good long nooning and still reach the foot of the butte and make camp well before sundown.

"There are the two jacks, gentlemen: the two inseparable jacks.

She sometimes "put down a hole" all by herself, skinning a knuckle now and then with the lightest "single-jack" and saying "darn!"