If he had kept them neat, and groomed his horse, and cleaned the cows, and dug up the garden, it would have taken up all his time; but he never tidied the place at all, till his yard and stable got so littered up with things he threw down that he could not make his way about.

George T. Bennett (A); 13May65; R361246. Grooming the marching band for high school contests.

The real duties of the groom follow: where the horses are not taken out for early exercise, the work of grooming immediately commences.

Your feet swell as they tap the swelling earth, and at each tap the flowers push, the sap climbs, the speck of life moves in the hedge-sparrow's egg; while, far away on the downs, with each tap, the yellow van takes bride and groom a foot nearer felicity.

When they groom the horses they always groom Gamin, our dapple- grey pony, and Ninette, which were never so well taken care of in their livesso brushed and clipped that they are both handsomer than I knew.

Oachi and her father were with him when, for the first time, he got out his comb and military brushes and began grooming his touselled hair.

But I have had the grooming of him; and it was a wuss job than ever grooming his hosses was!" Ward got very drunk that night, I remember, and we deemed it fortunate that our diplomatist guest had departed before the outward signs of his condition became manifest.

This digression has been made to call attention to the fact that while rumor was plentiful as to the future control of the Giants Mr. Brush was carefully "grooming" a young manhis son-in-law, Mr. H. Hempsteadto take his place.

Do you want to load onto an innocent bride an' groom the necessity of meeting a deficit of a couple of hundred dollars every week?" Patsy's face fell.

Evadne found herself one morning in Judge Hildreth's roomy coach-house, watching Pompey, as he skilfully groomed her uncle's pets.

His servant drops a field boot on to my stomach, trips over an empty biscuit-tin and is heard grooming a boot without.