DOGGET'S COAT AND BADGE, the great prize in the Thames rowing-match, given on the 1st of August every year.

So called from Thomas Dogget, an actor of Drury Lane, who signalized the accession of George I. to the throne by giving annually a waterman's coat and badge to the winner of the race.

For, though he picked holes in no man's coat, He was ever ready to repair The mischief that others did; And whatever breaches broke out in families, He was the man to mend all, And make matters up again: He lived and died respected.

And whoever went short it was not the pup, though a greedy pup was he; They gave him their choicest bits of sinje and drops of pinard too; He was warm and safe when he crept beneath a cloak of horizon-blue; They clipped fresh brisques in his rough white coat as the weary months dragged on, And all the sector knows him now as le Poilu de Carcassonne.

The white mansions of Tyburnia, Belgravia, South Kensington, and the neat villas of the suburbs are only brickwork, with a thin coat of stucco, which serves the purpose of concealing the real structureoften only too much in need of concealmentwith a material supposed to be a little more sightly, and certainly capable of keeping the weather out rather more effectually than common brickwork would.

He got the loaf, and, as it was a stormy afternoon, he put it under his coat before starting to walk home.

He took the loaf from under his coat and threw it into the room.

After this he got off his horse, and throwing aside his coat, he took hold and helped the men at their work till they got the timber into its place.

That day happened to be a great holiday in Florence and the artist had his best suit of clothes on; but not caring for this he threw off his coat, and went to work to clear away the rubbish from that marble.

Whirligig Gracie showed me her winter coat bought in Chicago of fur fabric called moleskin, and with fur collar and cuffs.

The girl had expected to be only on the porch and didn't have a coat.

" "You might as well say that Agnes ought to feel set up because Pong has a nice coat.

"He can't bully 'em any longer with his Tommy Atkins coat.

Here he took off his coat and shaped up to his superior.

I set to work to cut my coat according to my cloth.

" Uncle Julius had the upper part of his ponderous figure arrayed in a frock-coat.

Everard Grey's coat-tails flew in the breeze he made, and his collar was too high for athletic purposes.

Doffing his coat and hat, rolling up his shirt-sleeves, and donning a leather apron, he began preparing the horse's hoof.

I should be grateful to you for an old coat or an old pair of boots.

Merci!" with a fine courtesy, until suddenly he went limp, so that I had to hold him with all my strength, while he vomited blood down my coat.

Afterwards he was a little sobered by the temporary loss of his spectacles, which were found for him at last in his side coat-pocket.

Sally in her fur coat.

How beautiful that fence would be with a new coat of paint, and how perfectly well she could afford it!

His shoes were trodden down, his coat wanted a button behind, his hands were strangers to gloves, one or two bits of feather were sticking in his hair.

In their new home they did not renounce their love of dancing, though their ladies had sometimes to be driven in a bullock-dray to the door of the ballroom, and stories are told of young gentlemen, enthusiastic waltzers, riding on horseback to the happy scene clad in evening dress and with coat-tails carefully pinned up.

With such a prop as this ere little territory, where games of chance are "entered into accordin' to the act of Congress," to cote from a familiar passage in every printed copy of PUNCHINELLO, the Perfesser could have raised this little hemisfeer quicker than any of you chaps can gobble up a greenhorn.

I've allers heard say that as able-bodied a Loonatic as the French say you be, could handle any 3 ordinary men, "Be be Jost or Gobler damed," to cote from our friend BILLY SHAKESPEER.

As the afoursaid boy started to run off, a well dressed lookin' man ketched him by the cote coller.

" "No it don't, nether," said the boy, tryin' to break away, "and I want yer to let go my cote coller.

" I then tried to jump through a winder, but the man caught me by the cote tails, and haulin' me back, sot me down into a cheer.

Finally, she even learned to cook, and the household became a dove-cote!

Each had its name, too, on a small door plate, and it amused Ann and Peter to spell out as they went along"Furryfield," "Mousetail Manor," "Kitten-cote," etc.

T. 6: La cote d'amour, Le risque.

Le frere de la cote.

Le frere de la cote, traduit de l'anglais avec une introd.

Le frere de la cote.

La cote de jade.

La cote de jade.

COTE, PHYLLIS N. SEE McCarty, Phyllis, N. Cote.

Illustrated by Phyllis N. Cote.

By Elizabeth Foster Hann, illustrated by Phyllis Cote.

Phyllis Cote (A); 5Jan77; R650754. R650756.

Le frere de la cote.

La cote de jade.

La cote de jade.

Du cote d'ou viendra le jour, by Germaine Beaumont, pseud.

Illustrator: Phyllis Cote.

Illustrated by Phyllis Cote.

It is to little purpose, not a swain This night hath known his lodging here, or lain Within these cotes: the woods, or some near town, That is a neighbour to the bordering Down, Hath drawn them thither, 'bout some lustie sport, Or spiced Wassel-Boul, to which resort All the young men and maids of many a cote, Whilst the trim Minstrel strikes his merry note.

It communicated at the end with a pigeon-cote, and is reached by a good stone staircase, which also gives access to a loft above.