To the fire, to the fire with them all, even to the smallest scrap of paper, even to the most illegible scrawl, if we wish to be certain of destroying the contamination of evil.

It was a mere hurried scrawl, saying that Allerdyke was just setting off for Hull, in obedience to a call from the police; as Gaffney had nothing to do, would Appleyard make use of him during Allerdyke's absence?

More than once I saw tears roll down John's face in spite of him, as he slowly deciphered these illegible little scrawls.

I was thinking of Eunice, and of that round, childish scrawl of a diary upstairs in the attic trunk.

" This incoherent scrawl only confirmed my previous suspicions, but it was useless to dwell further on the melancholy subject.

Of Michelangelo's own work at this early period we possess probably nothing except a rough scrawl on the plaster of a wall at Settignano.

Kneeling on the hoar moss on one knee, writing on the other, if the stiff scrawl could be called writing!

You may have noted the rather excited scrawl in the back of the ledger?

With this vexatiously facetious and laconic scrawl, poor Mr. L. made his way to the Lakes, and in due time was ushered into the Parnassian presence of the author of "Thalaba."

He took it up idlyand glanced over ita note or two in the fashionable feminine scrawl about sittings, a letter from a framemaker, one from his Paris agent, and the usual litter of circulars.

He dropped the book upon his knees, and as he did so it fell open at the fly leaf, upon which in a feminine scrawl a name was inscribed.

Excuse this hasty and blotted scrawl, as I have been detained so long at the Admiralty that I have scarce time to save the Post. Canterbury, Dec. 26, 1805

When, by rare luck, he had a prescription to dispense (the hideous scrawl of that pestilent Dr. Bunker) in came somebody with letters and parcels which he was requested to weigh; and his hand shook so with rage that he could not resume his dispensing for the next quarter of an hour.

" He gave it mea little dirty envelope, with an illiterate scrawl.

Pray accept this as a letter in the mean time, and do me the favor to mention my respects to Mr. Mitford, who is so good as to entertain good thoughts of Elia, but don't show this almost impertinent scrawl.

At the top were the words, "My dear wife," and under them again an indecipherable scrawl.

It was a mere hurried scrawl, saying that Allerdyke was just setting off for Hull, in obedience to a call from the police; as Gaffney had nothing to do, would Appleyard make use of him during Allerdyke's absence?

Dr. Leidy here stated that the communication now referred to, unlike all the other communications of the Medium, which were miserable little scrawls of a few words, was a lengthy one, which covered the entire slate.

After one of these conversations he wrote an awkward, but significant scrawl home to his mother.

The man who first reached the register wrote, in a straight black scrawl, "J. Belmont Van Kamp, wife, and daughter."

And then?" "He wrote this note for you," and he handed her an envelope with her own name written on it in an uneven, uncertain scrawl.

And then?" "He wrote this note for you," and he handed her an envelope with her own name written on it in an uneven, uncertain scrawl.

"You'd be crazy to pay the slightest attention to any such vague and unexplained scrawl.

"Before you go camping and tramping ask Amy Stonington who her father and mother are." CHAPTER V AMY'S MYSTERY Betty was quick to comprehend the cruel words, and in an instant she had crumpled the anonymous scrawl in her hand.

When I came to transcribe the play, I found myself baffled by the villanous scrawl.