Nicholas without a dog-team would be practically a prisoner for eight months of the year, and not only that, but a prisoner in danger of starving to death.

If St. Nicholas was the author of this custom, he was a social saint; and the custom seems to be as completely kept up on the banks of the Hudson as it ever could have been on the banks of the Rhine.

The Golden Band was formed in the middle of the thirties, when the first Nicholas had been about ten years on the throne.

Nicholas was the opposite of his brother Alexander, having neither his gentleness, his impulsiveness, his generosity, nor his indecision.

The same authority states that Nicholas in reality was the first Emperor who granted estates excepting therefrom the resident peasantry.

"Yes; St. Nicholas is an immense straggling parish, going four miles along the river.

The Emperor Nicholas was the most powerful sovereign of the world, having a million of men under arms, ready to obey his nod, with no check whatever on his imperial will.

Up at the cabin he unlashed the load, and it quickly became manifest that Nicholas was a dandy at driving a bargain.

Nicholas was a sailor from the age of twelve, and no scholar, although he spoke French, Dutch, and English.

" "What do you mean?" "Well, Nicholas is a most impartial person.

Still, Nicholas is a good second."

For, as Alexander I was a good man enticed out of goodness by the baits of Napoleon, Nicholas was a great man scared out of greatness by the ever-recurring phantom of the French Revolution.

ST. NICHOLAS, the patron saint of boys, who was fabled to bring presents to good children on Christmas eve; was bishop of Myra in the 4th century, and had taken a special interest in the young.

I was sorry when I came back to find that Nicholas and Vera weren't such friends as they used to be.

Nicholas, I think, your name is. NlCH.

Julius thought almost as much as Jenny could do of the means of recalling Archie; but it was necessary to wait until he could communicate with Mr. Moy, and his hands were still over-full, for though much less fatal, the fever smouldered on, both in Wil'sbro' and Compton, and as St. Nicholas was a college living which had hitherto been viewed as a trump card, it might be a long time going the round of the senior fellows.

Madeline's money was invested in the firm of Cheeryble Brothers, in which Nicholas had become a partner, and before many years elapsed the business was carried on in the names of "Cheeryble and Nickleby.

He has made a fool of Nicholas for months, and although I have hated him for doing that, I have seen, also, what a fool Nicholas is!

"Nicholas is not a bad fellow," he added.

His father was well-to-do, and died in January 1559 (new style) when Nicholas was a boy.