What would leading lawyers and doctors do, I wonder, if they were asked, as busy women often have been, to spend a precious morning in a church-room sorting cast-off clothes?

An Australian settler's wife bestows on some poor slaving gin a cast-off French bonnet; before she has gone a hundred yards, her husband snatches it off, puts it on his own mop, quiets her for its loss with a tap of the waddie, and struts on in glory.

In all departments of the cast-off and the second-hand she was a daring speculator; and a spirited "auction" now and again exhilarated her as much as a fortnight by the sea.

But here lies my Complaint, Sir; To bear with me is all the Encouragement she is pleased to bestow upon me; for she gives her cast-off Cloaths from me to others:

As soon as he had gone, Maria took the cast-off clothing of her husband and cast it into the fire.

" "But I didn't know that St. Eustace made a practice of taking in cast-off scamps from other schools," said West.

"He'll call any man 'master' for a quarter, or 'God' for half a dollar; for a dollar he'll grovel at your feet, and for a cast-off coat you can buy an option on his immortal soul,if he has one!

The question is whether to reveal to you now where it was that Josie Fifer reigned thus, queen of the cast-offs; or to take you back to the days that led up to her being therethe days when she was José Fyfer on the programme.

The best of these cast-offs is the entrance to the Town Hall, once in Cheapside as the Wren frontage to Mercer's Hall.

I have therefore sold myself into the Prussian service, and in return for a cast-off suit of the Emperor's clothes (the uniform of an English midshipman), a German hausfrau's recipe for poison gas, two penny cigars, and twenty-five Iron Crosses, I have consented to instruct you in the rudiments of international controversy.

CHAPTER XVI A CAST-OFF SLIPPER

Many farmers' wives take much interest in such families, where there is an evident endeavour to go straight, and assist the women in various ways, as with cast-off clothing for the children.

She felt suddenly tired of cast-offs, of compromise, of all the other shabby adjustments of genteel poverty.

I did not mind that evidence of life, but I did not like the cast-off clothing, draggled hats, coats, skirts, and boots that lay about.

When I discovered this to be the case, I explained to them the impropriety of their conduct, and roused their pride by pointing out to them the absurdity of men of their high rank in their own country wishing to appear in the cast-off dress of degraded slaves, and how much more suitable it was to the dignity of their character to appear in their own national costume.

"Sometimes we can patch up the cast-offs, which means work for the cobblers," said the captainess of industry.

But here lies my Complaint, Sir; To bear with me is all the Encouragement she is pleased to bestow upon me; for she gives her cast-off Cloaths from me to others:

They were anxious, therefore, to meet with a dealer in cast-off clothes, and this was one of Elizabeth's callings.

In the kitchen there were practically no stores and hardly any arrangements even for simple bachelor cooking; the bedroom offered the same suggestion; the soap in the wash-stand was shrivelled and cracked; there was no cast-off linen, and the shirts in the drawers, though clean, had the peculiar yellowish, faded appearance that linen acquires when long out of use.

But not, an' it please you, with child's plays and the cast-off garmentry of tyrants.

For a time the dull red of their vast columns, and the dull red of their cast-off bark which matted the echoless aisles, still seemed to hold a faint glow of the dying day.

She had been willing to stand between them with her life, her liberty and eventhe hot blood dyed her cheek at the thoughtwith the added shame of being thought the cast-off mistress of that man's son.

"You have brought us the cast-off finery of our ancestors, Master Seadrift.

"But if I was fool enough to leave my father, I am not fool enough to present to the world your cast-off mistress as my wife."

He tells us himself that he depended on chance for a meal and wore his fellow students' cast-off clothes.