But sheshe never slipped, she never faltered, as swift and as surefooted as if she knew that her rider carried the fate of all Germany beneath the buttons of his pelisse.

Four buttons of my pelisse were open, and it did not need me to put my hand up to know that my precious papers were gone.

I opened two buttons of my tunic so that I might get easily at the Emperor's message, for it was my fixed determination when all hope was gone to swallow the letter and then die sword in hand.

Did Mr. Wordsworth really imagine, that he favourite doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority by being put into the mouth of a person accustomed to higgle about tape, or brass sleeve-buttons?

But I may as well be sewing on these buttons while you are talking.

Yet we are not exactly "buttonless black-guards," as Cobbettat least, I think it was Cobbettonce disrespectfully called the Quakers, and buttons of various kinds other than pearl and brass are turned out in barrow loads.

I remember some years ago going over the button factory of Messrs. Dain, Watts, and Manton, an old-established business now carried on by Mr. J.S. Manton, and was then shown a curious composition or kind of paste that could be made into buttons useful for all sorts of purposes.

" All sorts of stuff having any substance in it was indeed thrown into a kind of mortar, ground up, mixed with something that gave the mass cohesion and plasticity, then moulded into buttons as clay is moulded by the potter, and burned, dried, and hardened.

Therefore, if brass and pearl buttons are in limited demand, there are other materials from which a new useful and cheap article can be madethe "very button" for the timeand this is produced in much larger quantities than the more costly articles of a few generations ago.

In spite, then, of changes in fashion, Birmingham is stillI will not say a button hole, but a city where billions of buttons are made.

Buttons are made to go to all people, save the rude and nude races, and a few odd millions produced for home use.

He was a sight to behold, for he was decorated with buttons, mostly brass, from top to toe, and presented a sight that was enough to make a thoroughbred quaker swoon.

At last, a merry-looking young officer set the example, and said, "If I am to contribute anything which as yet is not to be found in this treasure-chamber, it shall be a pair of buttons from my uniformI don't see why they do not deserve to go down to posterity!"

But he lost eighty-seven and a half cents of his first dollar and a half because he bought some needles and thread and buttons to sell, which people didn't want.

DEAR MR. PUNCH,The following is taken from a letter from the Quartermaster-General in India to the General Officers Commanding Divisions and Independent Brigades: "I am directed to point out that at present there appears to be considerable diversity of opinion regarding the number of buttons, and the method of placing the same on mattresses in use in hospitals.

"I am therefore to request that in future all hospital mattresses should be made up with fifty-three buttons placed in fifteen rows of four and three alternately.

How yonder bridegroom, just cemented in an alliance that will not last out his lease of life, "spick and span new," all eyes, and a double row of buttons ornamenting his latticed waistcoat, looks at his adored opposite, who holds her Venetian parasolsun shadebefore her face, glowing like a red brick wall in the sun.

Here he had a crowded levée of peasants, and collected a great many trophies, from cuirasses down to buttons and bullets.

" "No, you think money is as plenty as buttons.

George has gone to town with Jules in the wagon to buy sugar, oil, oats, buttons, and I do not know what not, and is no doubt thinking of you all; for we do nothing but cry out how we wish you were here with us to enjoy this beautiful spot.

The fact was, Andy had met one of the knee-buttons sewed into a piece of the tripe, and it was impossible for him to fail discovering the cheat.

He introduced himself to me as "Lurtee Lee" (his official number was thirty-three), informed me he could "speakel Engliss," and, having by this single utterance at once apparently proved his statement and exhausted his vocabulary, settled down into a rapt and silent adoration of my tunic buttons.

"There are blue crocuses and hyacinths and 'baby's breath' for your earliest blossoms, and blue columbines as well as pink and yellow ones! and blue morning glories for your 'climber,' and blue bachelors' buttons and Canterbury bells, and mourning bride, and pretty blue lobelia for low growing plants and blue lupine for a taller growth.

And in his mind's eye the poet could see his godson clad in all the splendors of naval elegance,a blue jacket with gold buttons for every day, and for holiday attire a coat trimmed with galloon and red trappings, a pointed hat, a sword.... Ulysses shrugged his shoulders before such grandeur.

MAMMEN, EDWARD W. The Buttons go walking.