The magic umbrella; Illustrated by P. H. Webb.

" "O-o-o!" shouted Dicky, whose nose had been glued to the window in an effort to prove his grandfather's statement; "look at that funny umbrella!"

At this time a passer-by, if there had been one, might have observed, partly protruding from behind some bushes on the other side of the public road, and at a little distance from the gate, the lower portion of a purple umbrella.

Over and over again he said to himself: "The rain pours and the people down below chuckle as they move about each under his little umbrella of self-conceit.

"He was in the hall yesterday talking with Sir Joshua, who had his inevitable umbrella, like a true Englishman.

The pink umbrella, by Frances Crane.

"In this frame of mind I went to meeting, and it being a rainy day I took a large, handsome umbrella, which I had accepted from brother Henry, accepted doubtfully, therefore wrongfully, and have never felt quite easy to use it, which, however, I have done a few times.

'Owever, he took the room and wrote the letter, and next arternoon at three o'clock Mr. Goodman came in a four- wheel cab with a big bag and a fat umbrella.

Some one was coming up the lane; at least, a huge faded cotton umbrella was making progress toward the house, and beneath it a pair of nether extremities in trousers was discernible.

Beneath her arm, a restive captive, waggled and slipped a scarcely valuable umbrella.

For under the chestnuts strutted, like him in Struwelpeter, as though he were a very king of Ashantee, Sabina's black boy, who had taken to himself a scarlet umbrella, and a great cigar; while after him came, also like them in Struwelpeter, Caspar, bretzel in hand, and Ludwig with his hoop, and all the naughty boys of Bertrich town, hooting and singing in chorus, after the fashion of German children.

" I left my wet umbrella on the veranda, and aunt Helen led me into the dining-room, where a spruce maid was making a pleasant clatter in laying the table.

In the day excursions, the elephants are decorated in the most costly manner with rugs and fine stuffs, gold lace, and fringe; the seats called the howdahs are even covered with Cashmere shawls; richly fringed canopies keep off the heat of the sun, or else servants hold enormous umbrellas for this purpose.

Two china pugs and a statuette of a simpering pair of children under a massive umbrella adorned this article of furniture.

Not until the last shred was gulped down did he suffer himself to be cowed by the persistent umbrella in Nyoda's hand, and then he came to a stand in a triumphant attitude, and on his face was the satisfied expression of an epicure who has just discovered a rare new dainty to tickle his palate.

"It's a cloud-burst," said Mrs. Skenk, from beneath a prehistoric umbrella.

Some of them are protected from the sun by primitive umbrellas, consisting of a square cotton sheet stretched over a bamboo frame.

A few of the children struggled forward under ricketty umbrellas; but the mothers had their hands full, and strode along unsheltered.

Some {219a} have round leaves, peltate, that is, with the footstalk springing from inside the circumference, like a one-sided umbrella.

This footman, if he does not arrogate too much to his own confidence, was the first man distinguished by carrying and using a silken umbrella.

Underneath these solid umbrellas the pillows of the girls were as dry as though indoors, and the ponchos protected the blankets.

Among these there was a splendid umbrella, or small canopy, to be carried over the head of the emperor, all covered over with gems.

In each corner Manuel found, set upright, a many-storied umbrella of the kind used for sacred purposes in the East: each of these had a silver handle, and was worked in nine colors.

" "That's a swell umbrella you carry.

So without his usual divine invocation, Dom Manuel lay down upon the bronze floor of the hut, beneath one of the tall umbrellas, and he rolled up his russet cloak for a pillow.