* "Upon my word!" said Reginald some weeks later, as he came upon John sitting astride a cobbler's bench busily mending a pair of shoes, while Nan looked on admiringly.

He took several strands of thread together, and drew them through and through a piece of cobbler's wax, then took a bristle and put it in at the end cunningly, in a way Willie couldn't quite follow; and then rolled and rolled threads and all over and over between his hand and his leather apron, till it seemed like a single dark-coloured cord.

" "And what is the good of rubbing it so much with the cobbler's wax?" "There are several good reasons for doing that.

But Major Bugbee, to whom the cobbler's wife had been remotely akin, and who was at that time first selectman of the town, took the orphans with him to his house, where they tarried till he found good places for them.

Thereupon they tied the Cobbler's hands behind him, and led him off with a rope, as the farmer leads off the calf he hath brought from the fair.

" R. Wilson's "Cobbler's Prophecy," 1594, sig.

In fact, his turn came next, and the cobbler's hair stood up with unholy joy.

'I can find some balk, some cobbler's stall, without the house, to sleep on, if you will lodge within.

Lucullus's wardrobe is put down by our ordinary citizens; and a cobbler's wife in Venice, a courtesan in Florence, is no whit inferior to a queen, if our geographers say true: and why is all this?

" After this, he would sit for quite half a day at his work without going round to the "Cobbler's Arms."

He did not put his finger into its mouth, because his finger was black and sticky with cobbler's wax.

20 'This day the powder'd curls and golden coat,' Says swelling Crispin, 'begg'd a cobbler's vote;' 'This night our wit,' the pert apprentice cries, 'Lies at my feet; I hiss him, and he dies.'

Here the sabotier's trade is a poor one, and the cobbler's is still worse.

Friendship is like the cobbler's tye, That binds two soles in unity; But love is like the cobbler's awl, That pierces through the soul and all.

She was too tired to smile at the red-eyed baby of the cobbler's wife, who lived in the rear.

The man happened to enter the cobbler's stall, and falling into a gossip heard about the body which the cobbler had sewed together.

All things, dear pledge, are not in all men's power; The wiser sort of shrub affects the ground; And sweet content of mind is oftener found In cobbler's parlour, than in critic's bower.

In that town a cobbler's shop is a club.

"I'd trust you, Mr. Negro" (that was one of the fragments which came and stuck in the cobbler's brain), "as far as I would myself.

Their boasts had grown louder, more presumptuous, more preposterous, until, before the cold separation of that unmoving and as if contemptuous presence in the cobbler's chair, they burst of their own air, like toy balloons.

But all this has nothing directly to do with literature, and would not concern us here were it not that in the eighteenth century William Law came into touch with many of these mystical thinkers, and that he has embodied in some of the finest prose in our language a portion of the "inspired cobbler's" vision of the universe.

There is the death of the cobbler's baby which starves at the starving mother's breast which the author makes us witness in its insupportable pathos, but his art is not chiefly shown in such extremes: his affair includes the whole tragical drama of the place, both its beauty and its squalor of fact, but he keeps central the character of the refugee, Gabriel Luna, in the allegiance to his past which he cannot throw off.

" "'All around the cobbler's bench the monkey chased the weasel'" He was amazed; the congregation was dumbfounded.

The poor old cobbler's eyes filled with tears: he could have taken Jesus and the great world all into his arms then.

The cobbler's own veins were full of Scotch blood, as pure indignant as any knight's of the Holy Greal.