" Johnnie looked curiously at the dirty yards with their debris of lard buckets and tin cans.

" Dan lifted the red curtain from the cupboard, found an emptied lard-pail, half filled it with water and placed it on an oil-stove that stood in the center of the room.

A further diversion was created by several women crawling in, bringing food for the men-folk, in old lard-cans or native wooden kantaks.

INGREDIENTS.Bacon and larding-needle.

"Yes, yes, Jake," I said; "we'll stand shoulder to shoulder and make the lard business one grand sweet song," and then I choked him off by calling another fellow into the conversation.

"Even in slavery times, there was plenty of niggers out of them three hundred slaves who had to break up old lard gourds and use them for meat.

When the lard-hunt ruffles Rose Wordsworth lulls her to repose, While a snippet from the "Swan" Stops the jam-yearn of Yvonne.

It will give us, what it is nearly impossible to buy now, pure olive oil, in place of the cotton seed and lard mixture in general use.

That day the authoritiesthe policehad confiscated twenty dressed hogs, and in each porcine carcass they had found four-quart bottles of whisky, artistically imbedded in the leaf-lard fat.

Hold your lard prices up stiff to the market.

You keep dark about this and we'll divide the lard trade of the country.

Who'd ever ha' thought o' Giles Maine walkin' in like a lard wi' presents for us all?"

Dear Pierrepont: I've cabled the house that you will manage the lard department, or try to, until I get back; but beyond that I can't see.