In their high rubber boots they splashed about Rampart in the mild, thawing weather, "tryin' to scare up a job," as one of them stopped to explain to every likely person: "Yes, sah, lookin' for any sort of honourable employment till the ice goes out.

" He flopped shut his book, snapping a rubber band about it and inserting it in an inner coat pocket.

He struck a jutting rock, only half snowed under, that broke the sheer face of the promontory, and he bounded once like a rubber ball, struck a second time, caught desperately at a solitary clump of ice-sheathed alders, crashed through the snow-crust just below them, and was held there like a mudlark in its cliff nest, halfway between bluff and river.

Fasten one end to the faucet of a water-pipe (one in a set bowl preferred) by a very short piece of rubber tube.

All we know is that the doors are shut tight, and a few sentinels, who look as if India-rubber coats would be welcome, stand outside.

In the wooden passport office the uniformed official, on examining my passport, discovered that at the Russian Consulate-General they had forgotten to date the visé which had been impressed with a rubber stamp.

We might compare them to India rubber rings on rolls of paper.

Don Pedro told us that in 1902 Lopez Torres, who had traveled much in the montaña looking for rubber trees, reported the discovery there of the ruins of an Inca city.

With a rubber shoe flung gallantly over his shoulder, he danced incitingly before me, praying that I would pretend to be crazed by th

We were familiar with the current stories regarding the habits of savage tribes who lived in the montaña and whose services were in great demand as rubber gatherers.

He looked about for a place to sit down, and immediately discovered that while the invalid sat in an enormous easy-chair bordered by shelves and supplied with wheels for raising and lowering the back and for propelling the chair about the room on its rubber tires, it was the only chair in the room which could make any pretensions toward comfort.

give a final touch to your hairpins and hatpins, button your gloves, pull the rubber straps of your habit over your right toe and left heel, and you are ready.

(In New York evening world, Apr. 8-May 4, 1929) (Pub. abroad as The India-rubber men, in Pearson's weekly, Oct. 27, 1928-Mar. 2, 1929)

I had two little tables given me on which to set my majolica vases, with India-rubber plants, which will grow where nothing else will; also a desk and bookcase, and two splendid specimens of grass which grew in California, and had been bleached to a creamy white.

People are now trying crepe rubber soles, but they are not solid enough to bear the strain of tight bindings unless fixed to the usual thick leather sole, when the whole becomes too thick for comfort.

At the foot of the rapids was a big house and store; and camped at the head were a number of rubber-workers, waiting for the big boats of the head rubbermen to work their way up from below.

waste paper bonds; dishonored bills, protested bills; bogus check, bogus cheque, rubber check.

He chuckled as he went to his kit and dug out a small rubber bag.

Every soldier has sewn under a corner of his coat a strip of rubber cloth.

The water will flow from the other end of the rubber pipe in jets, each jet ceasing the moment the water is shut off.

" With a mighty tug the Colonel dragged out the rubber blanket, flung it down on the snow, and squared himself, back to the fire, to make short work of such views.

The owner, Señor José S. Pancorbo, was absent, attending to the affairs of a rubber estate in the jungles of the river San Miguel.

It was what the boys called "India-rubber ice"; ice which would bend beneath their tread, but would not quite support them when they stopped.

" The Colonel had got the blankets out now, but where was the rubber sheet?

The conveyer, projecting 72 ft. from the center of the boat, consists of a 5 ply rubber belt 36 in.