Then, at the fall of the fourth wicket, the game suddenly developed, Jim Butcher, batting at the pergola end, giving us an exhibition of his famous scoop shot, which landed full pitch through the drawing-room window.

And so Jim Butcher, playing this time from the rockery end, brought off the double event and caused another new clause to be added to the local rules.

It was an irresistible argument, and Jim Butcher continued his innings under slightly restricted conditions.

After a day of exhausting mental effort, to return to a dingy, ill-furnished home,to relieve professional labors by calculations about the gas-bill or the butcher's account,I shrink from such a miserable prospect!

"Monsieur," she said, when she had cut the bread, "the butcher has brought his bill.

"Undoubtedly, monsieur, I pay, when it is I who have bought the things; but this time the bill is so large on account of the brains which the butcher has furnished you" The doctor interrupted her brusquely: "Ah, come!

And he added with his indulgent, cheerful air: "If you are afraid for the end of the month, my girl, tell the butcher to send my bill apart.

"But monsieur is right; I will tell the butcher to send a bill apart, as all the brains are for monsieur's cookery and not for mine.

We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

As he had just come back from a ten-mile chase down the valley on horseback after a bad butcher, and as either was apt to have a like experience any and every day, I was not afraid they would fail to get exercise enough; so I let that item of the tutor pass.

"Come on," he said; "they're going to try that dn butcher."

The butcher had gone off on another man's horsethe man owed him money, he said, and the only way he could get his money was to take the horse as security.

He fired quite close to the running butcher twice, and the butcher thought it wise to halt.

He fired quite close to the running butcher twice, and the butcher thought it wise to halt.

The butcher was good-natured at the trial, however, and the tutor heard him say, with a great guffaw: "An' I do believe the dn little fool would 'a' shot me.

" "Now, Wegg," said Mr. Boffin, "I came by here one morning and heard you reading through your ballads to a butcher-boy.

Dick Turpin was born in Essex, England, and was originally a butcher.

We want no arbitrary monarchs, wise or brutal: from the noblest of emperors to the butcher of Berlin, we would sweep them all aside, to the ash-heap of outworn tools.

Stopping to wood at the mouth of a creek, a gang of raftsmen came on board,half-breed Canadians of fierce and demoralized aspect,men of great muscular strength, and armed heavily with axes and butcher-knives.

It was the ugly squaw, who forced a greasy butcher-knife into my hand, pointing towards where the raftsman lay, and whispering to me in English,"Stick heem!

The former is a kind of arcade which contains everything that any reasonable person could require; fragrant fruit and flowers, fresh-smelling vegetables, and the wares of butcher and baker and candlestick-maker, all laid out on booths and stalls for the world to choose from.

They report that his father was a butcher, the retailer of his own meat, and that he employed this very son in the servile offices of that trade.

When the butcher began chopping, he cried as loudly as he could "Don't chop far, I am down beneath," but the chopper made so much noise, that he attracted no attention.

The company at our table consisted not only of the passengers, of whom there were three besides myself, but of the cooks and waiters of the first-class places, as well as of the butcher; or, in a word, of every one of the attendants who chose to take "pot-luck" with us.

Sometimes one of the company would appear without either coat or jacket; the butcher was generally oblivious of his shoes and stockings; and it was really necessary to be endowed with a ravenous appetite to be enabled to eat anything with such a set.