" "I'm not joking, Smith," said the other, quietly.

" The rest of the long, closely-written four-paged letter is an indiscriminate and bitter, though joking attack, upon the race of publishers.

He was naturally (I am not joking now) a very sharp, clever boy; and he came on surprisingly in his learning.

Loneli has really suffered harm from this action, and I think that joking ceases under such circumstances.

o' joking me aboot ma Scotch closefistedness.

What's this, you barnyard cockerel; are you trying to joke with me, man?

This day, with Izdubar they laugh and joke 'Mid courtesies and mirth, and oft provoke The ringing merry laughter through the halls.

No sooner had I entered the sanctum, than the senior partner, Mr. Precepts, began to quiz his junior, Mr. Jones, with, "Well, Jones must never joke friend Discount anymore about usury.

Prince, you are joking Drahomir (smiling).Why should you hate him? Prince.

You are joking! EVERSMANN.

"What happened to you, Uncle Toby?" asked Frank, giving the others a wink not to joke the old fellow too seriously, for he was still trembling.

" The assembly, who for the most part considered the stocks joke very good fun, and were possessed with all the traditional schoolboy hatred for anything in the shape of telling tales, showed their disapproval with a good deal of booing and hissing as Gull sauntered out of the room, and Lucas bent over his accounts with the despairing sense of having lost instead of gained by the encounter.

He thoroughly enjoyed the supper Skinny and Carolyn June prepared and joked the girl about her coffee-jelly.

There is no time for joking GOTTLIEB.

She, as Elizabeth Terrot, had been a beauty, and was to the last a fine, happy, spirited, contented and joking old lady, very fond of my father, to whom she left all she had.

His other lady friends he used to joke aboutbut never Mrs. Lawrence.

Then I turned to Lord Ralles, and, holding out my hand, said "Lord Ralles, I joked a little the other morning about the way you thought road agents ought to be treated.

I joked Louise about him this morning, and she began to cry at once, and said her heart was not hers to give.

But every great actor and orator must be capable of instantaneous abandonment to his part, and of as instantaneous withdrawal from it,like the elder Booth, joking one minute at a side-scene and in the next having the big tears of a realized Lear running down his cheeks.

Don't joke wi' a mon that way, Ralph; it ain't richt!

Casting joking overboardout of the pulpit if you likeit may be said that Mr. Martyn as a preacher has many fair qualities.

" PRACTICAL JOKING AT OXFORD IN THE "SIXTIES.

They joked Count Polonsky about his girl, and he began to explain.

To the desert and turn hermit?" asked Clara, who was accustomed to joke her relative about "spheres and missions.

though he be but a Banker's Prentice, Madam, he's as pretty a Fellow of his Inches as any i'th' Cityhe has made love in Dancing-Schools, and to Ladies of Quality in the middle Gallery, and shall joke yeand repartee with any Fore-man within the Wallsprithee to herand commend me, I'll give thee a new Point Crevat.