The three had been sold at auction that day in response to the auctioneer's inquiry, "What am I bid for the lot?"

" He leaned back in the old chair, creaking out a dismal echo to the auctioneer's, "Going, going, gone!"

Well, if we ever do move, we have encumbrances the less to impede us; all our furniture has faded under the auctioneer's hammer, going for nothing, like the tarnished frippery of the prodigal, and we have only a spoon or two left to bless us.

The Government Auctioneer gives an account of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Morocco.

I had an interview with El-Martel-Warabah, government auctioneer of slaves, from whom I obtained details respecting the slave-trade in Tangier and Morocco generally.

The auctioneer, seeing that she had arisen, bade her stand in the pen, along with the other negroes.

The auctioneer called to her, and she stepped on the block.

He seemed to see her graceful figure gazed at by a brutal crowd, while the auctioneer assured them that she was warranted to be an entirely new and perfectly sound article,a moss rosebud from a private royal garden,a diamond fit for a king's crown.

794. vendibility, vendibleness^. seller; vender, vendor; merchant &c 797; auctioneer.

" Jimsy imitated an auctioneer, raising his voice to a sharp pitch.

There was the auctioneer, with his beautiful and inviting lithographic mapsall the lots as smooth and square and enticingly laid out as possibleand there were the speculatorsand there, in the midst of them, stood Monsieur Poopoo.

"One hundred!" said the auctioneer, "scarcely enough to pay for the maps.

The auctioneer proceeded in his sale.

The auctioneer looked around; there were no bidders.

The auctioneer congratulated himthe sale closedand the company dispersed.

"Pardonnez-moi, monsieur," said Poopoo, as the auctioneer descended his pedestal, "you shall excusez-moi, if I shall go to votre bureau, your counting-house, ver quick to make every ting sure wid respec to de lot vid de valuarble vatare privalege.

Monsieur Poopoo put these carefully in his pocket, and as he was about taking his leave, the auctioneer made him a present of the lithographic outline of the lots, which was a very liberal thing on his part, considering the map was a beautiful specimen of that glorious art.

Poopoo was evidently in trouble, having "thoughts which often lie too deep for tears"; and, as his grief was also too big for words, he untied his horse, jumped into his gig, and returned to the auctioneer in hot haste.

The auctioneer was leaning back in his chair, with his legs stuck out of a low window, quietly smoking a cigar after the labors of the day, and humming the music from the last new opera.

" "Vare shall I go to, eh?" "To the devil, for aught I care, you foolish old Frenchman!" said the auctioneer, waxing warm.

Anybody who chose passed the sacred threshold; the auctioneer's hammer was heard on the terrace; and the hospitable parlor and kitchen were crowded with people swallowing tea in the intervals of their business.

He told me but this day, that he had frequently known the air filled with shrieks of anguish for a whole mile around the spot, where, under the hammer of the auctioneer, the members of a family were undergoing an endless separation from each other.

In the agony of beholding a wife or daughter upon the table of the auctioneer, while every bid fell upon his heart like the groan of despair, small comfort would he find in the dull assurance of some heartless prophet, quite at "ease in Zion," that "ULTIMATELY Christianity would destroy slavery."

He seems like a damp-handed auctioneer, bawling in public, and pointing out the beauties of a mute and pathetic statue.

His father was an auctioneer.