SEE BUTLER, PIERCE, ed. BUTLER, WARREN H. The little locksmith.

First he feigns to misunderstand, then, clapping his hands in his pockets, he knows not where he can have laid them; after that fancies he must have given them to his man Peter, who is gone out of an errand, etc.; until Moll, losing patience, cut him short by declaring the loss of the keys unimportant, as doubtless a locksmith could be found to open his boxes and drawers without 'em.

From this inn, Gabriel Varden, stout-hearted old locksmith of Clerkenwell, jogged steadily home on a chaise, half sleeping and half waking, on a certain rough evening in March.

Some years ago, in the city of Philadelphia, there lived an ingenious locksmith, named Amos Sparks.

Do you mean to surround us, and, making us prisoners, drink up the whiskey yourself?" O'MALLEY,"'Tis a custom of our house, intended originally to give employment to meritorious locksmiths on the eve of election.

Like Guizot he sprang from the people, his father being an obscure locksmith in Marseilles.

The disconsolate locksmith had, therefore, to deliver himself of his story of the night's experiences to his daughter, buxom, bewitching Dolly, the very pink and pattern of good looks, and the despair of the youth of the neighbourhood.

Hugh had brought, by force, old Gabriel Varden to pick the lock of the great door, but this the sturdy locksmith resolutely refused to do.