He sets up an establishment, he puts forth runners, advertisements, and show-windows.

They were much interested in the specimens of bead-work which were to be seen In the show-cases.

The library next door is rather a show place, but the study has only Lord Mountstuart's favourite books in it.

The trader's establishment consisted of an office, a large show-room and a yard in the rear enclosed with a wall of brick fifteen feet high.

[Illustration] "I've been in the show business now going on for forty-three years," said the Doorkeeper, "and I haven't yet found a Dwarf with human feelings.

They passed comments upon the camels as Englishmen and Americans do upon horses in the paddock or the show-ring.

Unfortunately, within the last few years the "button" and "semi-tulip" ear have been rather prevalent amongst the specimens on the show bench.

But Tell was the hero of the shows at which he appeared, and his owner was recognised as being the introducer into this country of the magnificent variety of the canine race that now holds such a prominent position as a show dog.

We had to stay over Sunday in Evansville, and the show people were so scared the manager thought he better have religious services in the tent Sunday, so they got a revivalist preacher to preach to them, a fellow who used to preach to the cowboys out west.

Face to face Casey met the show lady, which was what he called her in his mind.

I was reduced to choosing between boots with large holes in the soles or chuplies mended with string; the boots I kept for show days, as the holes didn't show, and the chuplies for ordinary work.

The foregoing minute description of the various show points of a Bulldog indicates that he should have the appearance of a thick-set Ayrshire or Highland bull.

Spring cheers not, nor winter heightens our gloom: autumn hath foregone its moralities,they are "heypass repass," as in a show-box.

A war spectacular show filled with sure-fire patriotic lines, a bunch of show-girl battalions, and a figure like Alma Zitelle's for the Goddess of Libertya world of money, I tell you!" "Honest, Harry?" "That trench scene they built for that show is as fine a contrivance as I've ever seen of the kind.

Certainly it was as well ventilated a show house as you could hope for, and I found, when the time came, that the acoustics were splendid.

As in the case of racing competitors, really good dogs for show purposes are much more difficult to find than bitches.

Side show tricks explained.

Springing alertly to an upright position, and coughing excessively, Mr. PENDRAGON was a shamefaced reproach to his whole sex, while the young lady used the edge of her right foot against a seam of the carpet with that extreme solicitude as to the result which is always so entirely deceiving to those who have hoped to see her show signs of painful embarrassment.

Aside from this, on account of the absence of many attractions advertised in the show bills, disappointed audiences were showing an ugly spirit.

He will never be an ecclesiastical show-man, for his disposition is in the direction of general quietude and good neighbourship.

"Where," I exclaimed as I surveyed this show-card of a fast generation, "O! where have our children vanished?

Weight is not a certain criterion of a terrier's fitness for his workgeneral shape, size and contour are the main points; and if a dog can gallop and stay, and follow his fox up a drain, it matters little what his weight is to a pound or so, though, roughly speaking, it may be said he should not scale over twenty pounds in show condition.

" "You're the show-piece of the town, all right.

"Hi!" yelled the leader of a gang of boys rushing past them and halting, "here's some show folks.

It is not certain that any great improvement has been effected in the variety during recent years, but there are particular dogs to-day who are decidedly better than any that existed a dozen years or more ago, when such celebrities as True, Old Sam, King Koffee, Ben Wonder, Doden Ben, Lad and Una, were prominent, and there is no doubt that the curly coats attained show form in advance of the flat-coated variety.