There was a clatter of wheels, the quick stamp of a fast-trotting horse, and a baker's cart came swinging round the corner.

Baker's shops have been broken open and pillaged, and money has been extorted.

In proof they refer to the story told by Locke (iii. 471),a story which cannot easily be reconciled with the more credible and unpretending narrative of Clarges, in Baker's Chronicle, p. 602, edit.

The line busted near Baker's place, andwell, here we are.

My friend Jacques went into a baker's shop one day to buy a little cake which he had fancied in passing.

Esther's eyes filled with glad tears as the well-loved little figure popped in, with a baker's paper hat on his head, and delivered the absurd words; and if you had looked at Henry's face too, you would have been at a loss to know which loved the little pastry-cook's boy best.

There seems to be an implied affair, perhaps more serious, in this letter to his father, dated 1777he was born in 1756: "As to the baker's daughter, I have no objection to make; I foresaw all this long ago.

Even my brother could not entirely escape the melancholy influence of the hour and the place, and he was glad to take me into a baker's shop and have tea.

" "He has nice eyes," said the baker's wife.

Tell him my husband's mother, old widow Malmayns, fancies herself attacked by the plague, and if he will be kind enough to visit her, she lodges in the upper attic of a baker's house, at the sign of the Wheatsheaf, in Little Distaff-lane, hard by.

The enthusiast then approached a window of the baker's shop, and breaking a small pane of glass within it, threw the fire-ball into the room.

And, as for bread in famine, at the baker's door, For tickets are content their necks to break.

" "Oh no," said Jarley, gritting his teeth in his determination not to follow his mad impulse to jump on Mr. Baker's shoulders and clamor for a picky-back ride.

" To a small family, perhaps, the saving might not be considered an object, but any one who has for a few months been accustomed to eat home-made bread, would be sorry to have recourse to the baker's; the loaves purchased are usually spongy the first day, and dry and harsh the second.

In the hall or apartment where the Academy meets, every thing bears allusion to the name and device: the seats are in the form of a baker's basket; their backs like a shovel for moving of corn; the cushions of grey satin in form of sacks, or wallets; and the branches, where the lights are placed, likewise resemble sacks.

Baker's Chronicle, v. 12.

The baker's dozen.

(Baker's manuscript readings)

Baker's stunt and game book.

The baker's dozen.

You should have bought as I told you, when the baker's cart stopped here this morning.

Miss Baker's "Glossary of Northamptonshire Words."

BREAD DRESSING FOR FOWL In a fryer on the stove heat two tablespoons of drippings or fat, drop in one-half onion cut fine, brown lightly and add one-quarter loaf of stale baker's bread (which has previously been soaked in cold water and then thoroughly squeezed out).

Add one-half a cake of Baker's chocolate, two tablespoons of butter and one teaspoon of vanilla.

THE BAKER'S TOAST.May we never be done so much as to make us crusty.