What's the need of our s-s-staying awake p-p-part of the night, even, if by cudgeling our brains we c-c-could think up some g-g-good s-s-scheme that would answer the same purpose?" "I can see you cudgeling your poor brains, all right, Toby," sneered Steve, who apparently did not take a great deal of stock in the other's ability for conceiving clever ideas: "and a pretty mess you'd make of it, in the bargain.

"Gee, Billie, you couldn't eat the awful messes we make.

" "A thousand, Garry, dear boy, if they'll get us clear from this horrible mess.

"Gloria Gaynor," she heard her own pale lips say, "you have gotten yourself into a nasty, nasty mess."

In the day-time, they bring their little messes to be cooked here, and eat them in their own parlors; but after a certain hour, the great hearth is cleared and swept, and the old men assemble round its blaze, each with his tankard and his pipe, and hold high converse through the evening.

"'Nee, hee-heehee; hee!'" Uncle John tried to neigh, and made a sorry mess of it, although Bobby shrieked with delight.

He found everything in a sad mess in the house, while in the Tower itself every blessed stick had been burnt up.

She who so vehemently objected to the squalid mess of the business of domesticity, revelled in the squalid mess of this business.

"He often lays aside his own sketching and guides Drusilla's hand while she holds the pencil" "And when I'm tired," said Drusilla, "and the water colors get into a dreadful mess, Mr. Yates will drop his own work and come and talk to me about artand other things"

In vain did he sing the praise of water, and teach me the secret of composing delicious messes.

They may make a frightful mess of it, but that will never bring back things again into the hands that hold them and neglect them.

What a hopeless mess the whole thing was!

A sour, nasty mess it always was, and not fit to give any creature.

" Hilda's heart revolted, less against her mother's defects as an organizer than against the odious mess of the whole business of domesticity.

After a time the malt, though dry and sweet, had lost much strength, so as strong a wort was made as possible, and ground wheat boiled with it for breakfast, "a very pleasant mess which the people were very fond of," and Cook "had great reason to think that the people received much benefit from it.

"If you do, he'll make a precious mess o' the whole thing.

Their supper was a compound of 'potatoes and meal,' and was, without exception, the dirtiest, blackest looking mess I ever saw.

At first they were not hard to findthey were crowded upon the straw in cottage parlours, cleared of all but the cheap vases on the mantelshelf and family photographs tacked upon walls that had not been built for the bloody mess of tragedy which they now enclosed.

And so long as there is any way to keep your name clear of the whole miserable mess, I shall do so.

We used to go fishing along the creek; and ate many a savory mess of bullheads, sunfish and shiners, which I prepared and cooked.

Don't tell me there's any fun in a picnic,going off in the woods like that, to do for yourself what you'd sell the clothes off your back to have somebody else do for you at home, and eating all kinds of heathenish messes with your fingers because you've forgotten the forks.

When the fragments of the Train were finally gathered together in Indang, they formed an undone, hysterical mess.

It's the rest of it we're afterthe whole lousy mess.

but wasn't I in a lovely mess!

IV On the following Saturday morningrather more than a fortnight after her engagement to Edwin ClayhangerHilda came out of the kitchen of No. 59 Preston Street, and shut the door on a nauseating, malodorous mess of broken food and greasy plates, in the midst of which two servants were noisily gobbling down their late breakfast, and disputing.