I never saw any cue except in a billiard room," said I. Buntline thereupon explained it to me, as well as to Jack, who was ignorant as myself concerning the "cue" business.

One day at Titusville, Pennsylvania, while Burke, the business agent, was registering our names and making arrangements for our accommodation, several of us started for the billiard room; but were met by the landlord, who stopped me and said that there was a party of roughs from the lower oil region who were spreeing, and had boasted that they were staying in town to meet the Buffalo Bill gang and clean them out.

The landlord begged of me not to allow the members of the troupe to enter the billiard room, as he did not wish any fight in his house.

Bill was carrying the butt end of a billiard cue for a cane, and bending over the table, he said: "You'd rob a blind man."

" We remembered the perfect and spacious lawn, scarcely less level than a billiard-table, and, even with the Colonel busy on the East Coast, the committee were unanimously adverse to the suggestion.

It was a first-floor window, and it looks over the roof and skylight of the billiard-room.

I built the billiard-room myselfbuilt it out from a smoking-room just at this corner.

It would be easy enough to get at the window from the billiard-room roof.

Somebody or other was in the billiard-room the whole time, and nobody could have got over the roof (which is nearly all skylight) without being seen and heard.

A few feet below the window the roof of the billiard-room was visible, consisting largely of skylight.

He would buy the most expensive and elaborate lathe, and spend a month trying to make a true billiard ball at it.

I have known people who have resided in France for years and never once had occasion to ask a billiard-marker if he would "Envoyer-nous des crachoirs."

Why didn't you get rid of this billiard player in some simpler way?" "A natural question," agreed De Heidelmann-Bruck.

BEAU CLARK, a billiard-maker at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

He began whipsawing lumber, but after disablement from a gunpowder explosion he found lighter employment in keeping a billiard room.

The site of the residence, however, was marked only by desolate chimneys, a live-oak grove and a detached billiard room, once elegant but now ruinous, the one indulgence which this planter permitted himself.

Sir Antony Thornhirst, who had stopped to speak to Lady Tilchester by the billiard-room door, now came over to us.

My indispensable fur waistcoats, Indian clubs, ponchos, collapsible Turkish baths, steel aprons and folding billiard tables have already brought the weight of my kit nearly up to the allotted thirty-five pounds.

The billiard table which he mentions is still there, and gentlemen visiting Longwood, generally play there; the trees which he so justly calls "scrubby" are "gum-wood" trees, from which an intoxicating liquor (called by the natives "Toddy,") is extracted.

And if the "boss" sometimes astonished the city by going out for a walk in midwinter in a suit of white duck, they, not to be outdone, would shave off their hair and eyebrows and show heads as smooth as billiard-balls behind the shop windows, to the great commotion of the city, which would flock en masse to see "Cupido's Chinamen.

"That's a dram shop; they have a billiard table.

So four of 'em got on top of a billiard table and presented 'Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep' to the company, which made me feel glad that I hadn't been brought up that way.

He run an arrow game, and he talked right straight along in a voice that had no more bends in it than a billiard cue.

Sooner than become the latter, he had better retire to the billiard-room and practise cannons by himself, or pretend an engagement and walk about the neighbourhood.

Monsieur Tourterelle was a tall, gaunt, swarthy personage, who appeared to have cultivated his beard at the expense of his head, since the former reached nearly to his waist, while the latter was as bare as a billiard-ball.