Long before the commissary had finished his report there arrived no less a person than M. Simon, the chief of police, round-faced and affable, a brisk, dapper man whose ready smile had led more than one trusting criminal into regretted confidences.

But when Peggy's dapper figure, smartly attired in her aviation costume, appeared a still louder shout went up.

Several dapper clerks, whose right ears drooped from having been used as pen-racks, wearing stunning cravats, outré brooches and shirt-studs, learned in the lore of "two-forty" driving, were ranged opposite.

Jim Pink Staggs, a dapper gentleman of ebony blackness, of pin-stripe flannels and blue serge coat altogether a gentleman of many partssat on one of the bales and indolently watched an old black crone fishing from a ledge of rocks just a little way below the wharf-boat.

Instead a dapper city attorney with a sarcastic tongue and an isolated manner was present to conserve his interests; and, satisfied on that score, and ere the supply of Havanas in a beautifully embossed leather case was exhausted, in fact, to quote his own words, "as quickly as a kind Providence would permit," he vanished into the unknown from whence he came.

They laugh'd to see his little hat, With such a narrow brim; They laugh'd to note his dapper coat, With skirts so scant and trim.

They look so strangely beside the brisk, dapper curtnesses in which metropolitan journals transact their daily squabbles!

Again the dapper director came forward to lead the musicians, and again he was most enthusiastically received.

The dapper ditties that I wont devise, To feed youth's fancy, and the flocking fry Delghten muchwhat I the bet forthy?

If, on account of your brains being heavier than your heels, you chance to turn a somersault, and your head goes under, your heels will pop up like a pair of frisky, dapper ducks.

20 Soon as the trotting steed he hears, He starts, he cocks his dapper ears; Away he scours, assaults his hoof; Now near him snarls, now barks aloof; With shrill impertinence attends; Nor leaves him till the village ends.

Imprimis, then, for tallness, I Am five feet four inches high; A black-a-vic'd, snod, dapper fallow, Nor lean, nor overlaid wi' tallow; Wi' phiz of a Morocco cut, Resembling a late man of wit, Auld gabbet Spec, wha was sae cunning, To be a dummie ten years running.

It was a charge at the point of the pen upon the dapper flunkeys who were keeping the door of the German future; the brawny breast, breathing deep with the struggle, and pouring out great volumes of feeling, burst through the restraints of the time.

The man, who had prepared a formal harangue, was transported to have so fair opportunity given him of uttering it, and with much dapper gesticulation congratulated his lordship on his health, and the nation on enjoying such great abilities.

Onward speed our dapper greys, fresh as four-year-olds; and the further we go, the better they seem to like it.

There we inquired of the first person who seemed likely to knowhe was a dapper hairdresser, standing at his shop-door with his hands in his apron pockets and a comb behind his earand were told that the wedding-party had just passed through the village, on their way to the Chateau of Saint Aulaire.

" I still held my brier-wood pipe in my hand, and I felt inclined to hurl it at the dapper head of the consequential little gentleman, but with such a girl standing by it would have been impossible to treat him with any disrespect, and as I looked at him I felt sure that his apparent superciliousness was probably the result of too much money and too little breeding.

Only one gentleman, a short dapper individual with mutton-chop whiskers (Wareham suggested that he looked like a barrister), paid any attention to the master, and, it may be, recognised him.

The grooms have let go the horses' heads, and have climbed up in dapper lightness at the back: we are through the first gate!

The dapper police officer stepped briskly into the box, and having been duly sworn, faced the prosecuting counsel with the air of a man who was prepared for any contingency.

"We didn't have any dipper-dapper policemen making mistakes."

He was a round, dapper practitioner, with slightly soiled cuffs and an extremely business-like manner.

It was Lasalle, and with him was a lame gentleman, very neatly dressed in black with dapper ruffles and cuffs.

Before this war is finished these soldiers of ours, who are singing on their way, in dapper suits of khaki, will be all tattered and torn, with straw tied round their feet, with stubby beards on their chins, with the grime of gunpowder and dust and grease and mud and blood upon their hands and faces.

Out from his feet the black mud flies, His jacket is far from white; Bother these boys with their dapper ties, Who come and compel me to turn my eyes Away from a nobler sight!