According to my information, it was she who mapped out the campaigns for de Lorgnes; she was G.H.Q. and he merely the high private in the front line trenches; with this difference, that in this instance G.H.Q. was perfectly willing to let the man at the front cop all the glory....

I've got a couple of friends of mine from Headquarters waiting downstairs this very minute, ready and willing to cop out the honour of putting the Lone Wolf under arrest for stealing the Montalais jewels.

He keeps it secret, but mother knows, and so do I. If thou slip him on the left side he can't cop thee.

But, on the other hand, Wilbur isn't there with a very big fresh air fund, and by perseverance I might cop out a Pittsburg millionaire and become famous.

Yes, the Judge caught a sleeper on Wall Street and she was in strong with the cop on the beat and the people on the floor below her had moved on account of the noise.

They would crawl out there and bombard the neighborhood with empty bottles, until the cop on the corner would rap and then for some two or three minutes the block would be as silent as a tomb.

"What'll happen then?" "I shall cop it," said Gracie elegantly.

(She was, at that very moment, knitting her dainty brows over the fifteenth bunch of pink fragrance and deciding regretfully that this thing must come to an end even if she had to call in Terry the Cop.)

Hearing the measured footsteps of Terry the Cop, guardian of our destinies, I looked for a swift and painful eviction.

Seven to one, and a sure cop.

I looked up to see Terry the Cop, guardian of our peace, arbiter of differences, conservator of our morals.

"Dangerous suspects, Yeronner," said Terry the Cop.

I looked about for Terry the Cop.

Far above her, a cop was looking down.

" "I was just going by," the cop said.

The cop wrote his name down in a small notebook.

Heart attack, maybe," the cop said.

"Hope for the best," the cop said, putting his notebook away.

Therefore, these words should be divided thus: civ-il, col-our, cop-y, &c.] 2.

A cop never quits.

A cop never quits.

WILLEMSE, CORNELIUS W. A cop remembers.

A cop remembers.

When a cop's a good cop.

When a cop's a good cop.

He must have boiled his tea-leaves four and five times over in order to supply the constant demands for "adha kop chha-a," preferred by casual visitors who had come up out of the City to see what was going on.

I've hobnobbed in Honolulu with the Zouave and the Zulu, I have fought against the Turks at Spion Kop; In a spirit of bravado I've accosted the MIKADO And familiarly addressed him as "Old Top." I've been captured by banditti, kissed a squaw in Salt Lake City, Carved my name upon the tomb of LI HUNG CHANG, And been overcome by toddy where the turbid Irrawaddy Winds its way from Cincinnati to Penang.

A charitable lady went on a visit of condolence to a poor woman whose husband's name had just appeared in the list of the killed at Spion Kop.

In his Tales from a Field Hospital, Sir Frederick Treves told of a soldier who was brought down from Spion Kop as a mere fragment, his limbs shattered, his face blown away, incapable of speech or sight.

"One depressing morning I had a telegram from Bob, 'Spion Kop taken'" "So Bob," I nodded, "had it as badly as everybody else!" "Worse," declared Catherine, her eye hardening; "it was all I could do to keep him at Cambridge, though he had only just gone up.

"The next depressing morning," continued Catherine, happily oblivious of what was passing through one's mind, "the first thing I saw, the first time I put my nose outside, was a great pink placard with 'Spion Kop Abandoned!'

"Bowled over on Spion Kop," said Bob, "and fairly riddled as he lay.

It was only a fortnight after the British repulse at Spion Kop, and Ladysmith was in a hopeless state of siege.

By leaving it free, therefore, to move upon the shaft, by the means above described, through the angle, KOP, the desired object is accomplished.

* Cobweb comes from the Dutch word Kopwebbe; and Kop in that language signifies a spider.

Many thousands, no doubt, were in the English army of 250,000 men brought against the 30,000 Boers, but there was a small "Irish Brigade" that fought on the Boer side, and was notably engaged at Spion Kop, where the English were driven so sweepingly from their position by desperate charges.