Fletcher had come a nasty cropper, and reaped what, sooner or later, is the inevitable reward of double-dealing.

Consequently, Frank was able to veer aside and skim past the dangerous obstruction without coming a "cropper" in the ditch.

Then he saw that he was lying with his head upon her knee, and with a hot flush, the man's shame for his weakness in the presence of a woman, he struggled into a sitting posture and looked at her, looked at her with the forced cheerfulness of a man who has come an unforeseen, unexpected cropper of the first magnitude.

"And came an awful cropper!

You had come a bad cropper.

" "Most people are," said I. "True; but you can take a cropper more gracefully at twenty than at fifty-five.

Descent N. descent, descension^, declension, declination; fall; falling &c v.; slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute^; titubation^, stumble; fate of Icarus. avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.

The landlady's son told her that the John Cropper would be waiting for high-water to cross the sandbanks at the river's mouth, and that there was a chance that a sailing-boat might overtake the vessel.

Just came a cropper in the mud, Jervis," he added, as he noted my dismayed expression.

They are from six to seven feet highsometimes higherand are formed by laying long split logs one over another diagonally, by which simple process the necessity of nails or uprights is avoided; and as wood is dirt-cheap, the additional length caused by their diagonal construction is of no importance;but, being all loose, they are as awkward to leap as a swing-bar, which those who have once got a cropper at, are not anxious to try again.

He was the Negro man come to show Patsy's husband and his share cropper where I was at.

He came a cropper over the "Two Thousand Guineas."

I suppose you never came a cropper in your lifedon't know what it means.

"A very saucy one," added Deppingham, who had come a severe cropper in his single attempt to interest her in a mild flirtation.

Illustrated by William Cropper.

I was a share-cropper.

Illustrated by William Cropper.

As they refresh themselves there is a ceaseless hum of conversation, how so-and-so came a cropper, how another went at the brook in style, or how some poor horse got staked and was mercifully shot.

The Meet was to be at Cropper's Gorse, 5:30.

This is Cropper's Gorse, I suppose?" "Noa, Sur; this be Cropper's Plantation.

This is Cropper's Gorse, I suppose?" "Noa, Sur; this be Cropper's Plantation.

"Hi! my boy, is this Cropper's Gorse?" asked Thompson.

This be Cropper's Common.

This view illustrates a double cropper in which both the spirals are controlled by one belt.

I'm always glad to see you come a cropper.