"I have the honor to welcome you all as members in good standing of the novice class, first-degree, Mysterious For," announced Miss Waters.

To our novice eyes the wires seemed snarledsnarled inextricably, hopelessly, eternallyand we said as much, but the ordnance colonel said behind this apparent disorder a most careful and particular orderliness was hidden away.

The novice fancier, desirous of breeding for profit, exhibition, or pleasure, when price is an object for consideration, is often better advised to purchase a healthy puppy from a breeder of repute rather than to be deluded with the notion that a good adult can be purchased for a few pounds, or to be carried away with the idea that a cheap, indifferently bred specimen will produce first-class stock.

From the top of this several short runs end in the village or on the Berner Oberland Railway, which brings the tired novice home without much effort.

Of all the labors of the field, the dexterity displayed by the negroes in "scraping cotton" is most calculated to call forth the admiration of the novice spectator.

The act was the merest novice trick analyzed by an expert, but it set the audience wild.