But Ellen was so wise, so watchful, that not even the most malignant gossip-monger, could point to anything like a clandestine intercourse between the two.

*** CHARLIE CHAPLIN says a gossip writer is coming to England in the Autumn.

Forever flying in your face, getting in your way, prying into your affairs, a kind of gossip-fish, that I despise.

And just as there was a choir-leader on the floor below, so was there a gossip-leader in the balcony above.

Ten prattling words of what you have heard to-night set afloat on the gossip pool of this town might make it pretty difficult for our David.

A singing heart, a laughing road, With salutations all the way, The gossip dog, the hidden bird, The pig that grunts a gruff good-day; The apple-ladder in the trees, A friendly voice amid the boughs, The farmer driving home his team, The ducks, the geese, the uddered cows; The silver babble of the creek, The willow-whisperthe day's end, With murmur of the village street, A called good-night, an unseen friend.

Yet ere that anie way I doe betake, I meane my gossip privie first to make." 70 "Ah!

Now the slow light fills all the trees, The world, before so still and strange, With day's familiar presences, Back to its common self must change, And little gossip shapes of song The porches of the morning throng.

I've worked on that end of it, and I've had several of my best men circulating around trying to gather dope from the gossip shopsbut there doesn't seem to be a clue from this end.

Doth not the infant love to sport and laugh, And tie a kettle to a puppy's tail? Doth not the dimpled girl her 'kerchief don (Mocking her elder) mantilla wisethen speed To mass and noontide visits; where are bandied Smooth gossip-words of sugared compliment?

The old gossip-pots!

The gossip doubtless was garnished to the taste of the retailers and of the receiver.