There were so many shows in town that the supply of college students didn't come up to the demand, and as me and the bunch had sorta turned them down after they went and lost all their money on the Thanksgiving game, so we had an intimation that developed into a hunch that our little 'welcome' mat on the doorstep would not be crowded with an eager throng.

Several of the lodges had been altogether deserted, in consequence of the death of the proprietors; in which case the Indians frequently strip off the thick mats which form the outer covering of the wigwam, and leave the bare poles a perishing monument of desolation!

When clean mats have been spread, and they are all seated, the king and his ministers present their offerings according to rule and law.

"In these clothes and a coarse mat and straw hat they would sit in their canoes in the heaviest rain as unconcernedly as if they were in perfect shelter."

The lakelets, which a few miles down the valley were so richly embroidered with flowery meadows, had here, at an elevation of 10,000 feet, only small brown mats of carex, leaving bare rocks around more than half their shores.

Fat mats of snow lay on the level spaces, upon flat rocks, curling over and down at the edges.

The prairie was covered with a dense mat of dry grass which rustled in the wind but furnished no feed for our stock.

But think not, reader, of those poor miserable wretches we see at home, which seem little better than rough door-mats sewed up and stuffed, with head, tail, and legs attached, and just enough of life infused to make them move!

"My dear sir!" exclaimed the man who fell with me, and I found the Rev. Luther Meeker sitting on a crumpled mat and propped up with his arms behind him, while his pith helmet went dancing away on its rim to settle crazily upon its crown a dozen feet from us.

On it as decoration (it was laid for two, side by side) were some curious straw mats, a few laurel leaves, a little marble statuette of Pan, and three Tangerine oranges.

Her unbrushed, lustreless hair hung about it in a dull mat, one of her hands was clutched in itthe hand was dirty.

The grand divans, the elegant cushions, the elaborate mats, the bright-coloured curtains are all dragged out and cast forth outside.

and Choti, the student and the painter, were foremost in the preparations of the amuraa ma, and many houses supplied the extensive, soft mats which were put on the sward for the table, while the ladies laid the cloth of banana leaves down their center, and adorned it with flowers.

A round four-pound-loaf of black bread waiting to be torn, and to-night, on the festive mat of cotton lace, a cake of pinkly gleaming icing, encircled with five pink little twisted candles.

In 1815 two pale, wretched-looking men, naked, save for flax mats tied round their waists threw themselves on the protection of the captain of the Active, then lying in the Bay of Islands.

Instead of growing in clumps and low, heathy mats, it manages in some way to maintain an erect position, and usually stands single.

These, when thoroughly purged of the foul black pollution in which they have sweltered so long, will go out to all quarters of the world under the name of "coir" to make indestructible door mats and other indispensable things.

In achieving the inner mat the mourner perceived a white square on the floor.

'This business looks de-ci-ded-ly prob-le-mat-i-cal.

From the time the seed first begins to sprout, the beds must be kept very clean, in dry weather sprinkled daily, and protected from birds and animals by brambles strewn over, and by means of light mats from storms and heavy rains.

The traveller lies on a loose mat, which is fastened to a bamboo frame, borne on the shoulders of four robust polistas.

As they made their way towards shore a canoe drifted out, and lying in it, wrapped in a native mat, was the body of Bishop Patteson.

And Buddha said that a man must look on everything as illusioneven light and colourthe time-worn bronze of metal against blue-green of pine and pale emerald of bamboothe lemon sash of the girl in the cinnamon dress, with coral pins in her hair, leaning against a block of weather-bleached stoneand, last, the spray of blood-red azalea that stands on the pale gold mats of the tea-house beneath the honey-coloured thatch.

The sixth was followed by the first, who had wriggled clear around the circle of light thrown by the lamp, and in perfect silence the infernal snaky circle moved backward round and round, the faint light shining on bare legs, on bodies from which the parrot mats were thrust aside by the contortions, and upon the masks that were weirdly fantastic and Mephistophelian.

Sometimes it was venisonsometimes ducks or pigeonswhortleberries, wild plums, or cranberries, according to the seasonneat pretty mats for the floor or the tablewooden bowls or ladles, fancy work of deer-skin or porcupine-quills.