The Japanese have a little trick to fool a man who catches you around the waist from behind.

Another scallawag had jammed my coat part way into my butes, and was pourin' water into 'em out from the wash-pitcher, and I am sorry to say it, evry darned Muskeeter was up to some mean trick, which would put to blush, even a member of the New Jarsey legislater.

"That was a dirty trick you played me last night, Mr. Darrin!" cried the first classman angrily.

Although she did not approve Cartwright, he was the head of her house, and to know his clever tricks were something of a joke hurt her dignity.

Alas, I see the Trick, Sir, a mere Trick put upon a Man, a married Man, and a married Man to a handsome young Woman,you apprehend me.

" PARENTAL RECOLLECTIONS A child's a plaything for an hour; Its pretty tricks we try For that or for a longer space; Then tire, and lay it by.

I reckon he'd beat a business crook at the other's smartest trick, but if you're out for a straight deal, you'll find Cartwright straight.

One had found that time had merely added poise and self-possession and a certain opulence to the beauty which had caused one's voice to play fantastic tricks in conference with Anne Willoughby,ancient, unforgotten conferences, wherein one had pointed out the many respects in which she differed from all other women, and the perfect feasibility of marrying on nothing a year.

"I'm not denying," he pursued, again with that odd trick of entering his argument from the side, "that a young chap like yourself has my good word.

Does he think we have neither hands nor wits to be hindered by this silly woman's trick?" "'Tis no silly trick.

"What could have been that little cockney's purpose in playing this shabby trick on us?" demanded Farley.

He said, "I will try the old trick, the foolish old trick that I always despised, but which must have something sound in it, after all, since it has served the turn, through all time, of people in my predicament."

If I could see that note, I might know the handwriting, and then I'd know who played this shabby, cruel trick.

With Moll, however, the case was otherwise; for she, being young and of an exceeding vivacious, active disposition, must for ever be doing of something, and lucky for us when it was not some mischievous trick at our expenseas letting the goats loose, shaking lemons down on our heads as we lay asleep beneath it, and the like.

" "And I'll know who has been playing this stupid trick," Morriston said wrathfully.

But Mr. P. knew a trick worth two of that.

All through the village, and in the country it was known what a dastardly trick the Englishman had played, and he would have been roughly handled if he had dared return.

But you aren't going to do that dangerous trick, are you?"

Destiny, having waited patiently, played a queer trick upon Miss Nightingale.

A favourite trick of the Gruagach was to untie the cattle in the byre, so as to bring out the milkmaid, especially if she had forgotten to leave the offering of milk.

Fate has played a sorry trick.

"The girl did so, and as soon as the door was closed behind her Birchill turned round to me and burst out, 'Hill, that damned employer of yours has served me a nasty trick, but I'm going to get even with him, and you're going to help me!'

That is one of his favorite tricks.

" "I didn't want to play myself, but I wasn't going to do a rotten trick like getting other fellows away from the team.

"Now I do verily think that thou hast some cunning trick in this," quoth he.