I cannot resist transcribing three or four lines which poor Mary made upon a picture (a Holy Family) which we saw at an auction only one week before she left home.

PURCHASING A HOUSE.Few men will venture to purchase a freehold, or even a leasehold property, by private contract, without making themselves acquainted with the locality, and employing a solicitor to examine the titles,; but many do walk into an auction-room, and bid for a property upon the representations of the auctioneer.

You box it up, as much as she wants to let go, and send it to the Empire Auction Roomshere's the card.

They're plain auction-room people, you understand,wouldn't hesitate to rob you in a genteel, auction way,but I'll be there and see that they don't.

They're plain auction-room people, you understand,wouldn't hesitate to rob you in a genteel, auction way,but I'll be there and see that they don't.

" He followed up the eulogium at great length, and after liberally dispensing "soft soap" on the listeners, declared the auction had commenced.

A man with a bell, which he rang most energetically at the door, shortly after summoned the company, the auction being about to commence.

They were advertised also, in the same papers, to be sold by auction, sometimes by themselves, and at others with horses, chaises, and harness?

We had hardly returned on board with our sad report before an auction was held of the POOR man's clothes.

"For Sale by Auction, one Mare Colt."Kent and Sussex Courier.

AND THE RAG AUCTION.

PETHERTON,Miss Gore-Langley has written to me to say that she is getting up a Rag Auction on behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund, and not knowing you personally, and having probably heard that I am connected by ties of kinship with you, she asked me to approach you on the subject of any old clothes you may have to spare in such a cause.

The Auction was held last Wednesday.

DEAR FREDDY (I wrote), Wasn't it a roaring successthe Auction, I mean?

The latest vogue with smart people is to get up little air-raid parties for the Tube, to be followed by auction or a small boy-and-girl dance.

And as you see they have cut down the woods, and cleared and leveled the ground, to divide it into lots, and sell it by auction.

The Edinburgh Edition of the works, in twenty-eight volumes, is often referred to by bibliographers; it can now be obtained only at second-hand bookshops, or at auction sales.

So he brought together all his furniture, considerable in amount and very beautiful, in the auction room as if he were going to call for bids on all of it: but he sold only his senatorial dress.

No precaution was taken in favour of the allies of the Samnites: they were sold by auction, to the number of seven thousand.

In all departments of the cast-off and the second-hand she was a daring speculator; and a spirited "auction" now and again exhilarated her as much as a fortnight by the sea.

Two notable bishops of the Roman Catholic communion in the United States are known to be the sons of a slave mother and a white father, who, departing from the usual American rule, gave his sons freedom, education and a chance in life, instead of sending them to the auction block.

"Two spades," declared Archie Westcott at the auction table, and then when Markham went out, "Odd fishthat.

© 28Mar24, A792030. R76216, 29Mar51, Laura Baker Cobb (W) COCHRAN, THOMAS C. Auction bridge hints.

Susanna's auction.

R80653. SEE Susanna's auction.