[Illustration: GRANNIE (dragged out of bed at 1.30 a.m., and being hurriedly dressed as the bombs begin to fall): "Nancy, these stockings are not a pair.

Stocking was the next witness, and he fared no better than had Bibby. O'Brien, catching the judge's eye, made a wry face and imperceptibly lowered his left lidon the side away from the jury, thus officially indicating that, of course, the case was a lemon but that there was nothing that could be done except to try it out to the bitter end.

The flawless lustre of his shoes would be dulled, even though he walked sedately the safe sidewalk; his broad collar and blue polka-dotted cravat would be awry, one stocking would be down, his jacket yawning, all his magnificence seeming unconquerably alien.

Her stockings and socks for the babies and papa would always be yarn.

"JAZZ STOCKINGS ARE THE LATEST THING, DEAR.

" "Nov. 22.Pink stockings beneath dark pelices are emblems of Sincerity and Discretion; signifying a warm heart beneath a cool exterior.

The stockings had been our mother's.

His stockings were grey, and the famous cravat orange, with a zigzag pattern in blue.

Stockings, my horse, had in a few weeks become a splendid traveler in the forest.