DICKENS, as soon as he saw me, stopped writing, wiped his pen, ran his fingers through his hair, took out his watch and wound it up, brushed his coat and put it on (not forgetting to place a rose in the button-hole), and then, waving his hands very gracefully (he wore high-priced studs and a pair of elaborately built sleeve-buttons), addressed me as follows: Mr. DICKENS (with tender embrace) SARSFIELD!!!!

I said I'd a treat for you; now tell me without prevaricationwill you have sleeve-links with a cipher or a monogram?

Shirt-sleeves diplomat indeed!

I don't know his sleeve length, but his neck is about like that.

Sleeve finishes.

A pair of sky-blue, rosette-fastened, satin ribbon sleeve-holders above his elbows kept the cuffs from slipping over his hands.

Though I have often seen it, the Cross on the sleeve-band of a man who bears a revolver in his belt, or a rifle on his arm, has always struck me as a most incongruous thing.

There was a piece in a Portland paper about a Counsul somewhere being fired because he set in his shirt-sleeves durin office hours.

Each sleeve-end fell to my fingertips, and its girth would have circled a flour-barrel and buttoned with room to spare.

But pinned on to a sleeve-knot of pale pink ribbon was a slip of paper; and on the slip of paper were a few words in a woman's handwriting: "Compliments of California to Mrs. May." XXIV THE BEST THING IN HER

There had been a big quarrel among them about a road-scraper, and the next day every one was offering to wait, instead of grabbing at it the way they had been; and the women who had fallen out over a sleeve pattern and fought rings round, and called each other everything they could name, made it up right there.

The huge blocks of the rough stone were first inspected, then we saw the various processes of cutting, ornamenting and polishing, and finally were ushered into the showroom, where all kinds of articles from a sleeve-stud to a sideboard were on sale.

Where can be the sleeves toto this"his voice expired in his perplexity.

"That's known as the sleeve trick, boys," explained Aldous with his imperturbable smile.

Boaz heard exclamations, breathings, the rustle of sleeve-cloth in large, frantic, and futile graspingsall without understanding.

A quiet time he has of it up there in the golden Italian air, in petrified act of blessing, while orange lichens and green mosses from year to year embroider quaint patterns on the seams of his sacerdotal vestments, and small tassels of grass volunteer to ornament the folds of his priestly drapery, and golden showers of blossoms from some more hardy plant fall from his ample sleeve-cuffs.

he hat someding up his sleeve dat might raise tust ven he tropt i

But Mr. .Whitlock, who had received his training in shirt-sleeve diplomacy as Socialist Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, was as impervious to German suggestions as he had been to the threats and pleadings of party politicians, and told Baron von der Golz, the German Governor, politely but quite firmly, that he did not take his orders from Berlin but from Washington.

He is a shirt-sleeve diplomatist who, if he thought the occasion warranted it, would not hesitate to conduct diplomatic negotiations in his night-shirt.

The "sleeve dog" and the "chin dog" are common and appropriate appellations in the East.