Then take a dead horse's tail, or, failing that, a cotton dusting-cloth, and strike that away which the currycomb hath raised.

Then take a round brush made of bristles, with a leathern handle, and dress him all over, both head, body, and legs, to the very fetlocks, always cleansing the brush from the dust by rubbing it with the currycomb.

He says he wants me to learn the circus business from the ground up, from the currying of the hyenas with a currycomb and brush, to going up into the roof of the tent on the trapeze and falling into the net, while the audience faints with excitement.

Don't you hate to be currycombed by a rascal with corns on his fingers?" V. ROMETHE THERMAE OF TITUS

"He used to be foreman of the Currycomb outfit south of Fort Seymour.

" "I've heard of Nebraska Jones and the Currycomb bunch all right," he admitted, soberly.

The Currycomb outfit!

Regarding the Currycomb men had been accustomed to speak behind their hands and under their breaths.

For the Currycomb politically had been a power.

They had prospered exceedingly, these Currycomb boys, till the election of an opposition sheriff.

Which election had put heart into the more decent set and a crimp in the Currycomb.

It did not matter that legally the Currycomb possessed a clean bill of health.

The community had decided that the Currycomb must be abolished.

Now it seemed that at least one of the Currycomb boys, and that one the most notorious character of the lot, had scattered as far as Farewell and obtruded his personality upon that of Racey Dawson.

He had beaten to the draw the foreman of the Currycomb.

And so no doubt he would have of STRIGIL and SISTRUM, if, instead of CURRYCOMB and CYMBAL, (which are the English names dictionaries render them by,) he could see stamped in the margin small pictures of these instruments, as they were in use amongst the ancients.

In the fresh, still morning, with the camp just waking up and the curious Turkish currycombs clinking away over by the tethered horses, our aerial visitor added only a pleasant excitement to this life in the open, and we went on with our dressing with great satisfaction, little dreaming how soon we were to look at one of those little flying specks quite differently.

[Footnote 1: A small card, resembling a currycomb in construction, and used by negroes in the rural districts instead of a comb.]

He had grown up to the scrape and whiffle of the currycomb, breathing ammonia, cracking the skin of his infantile knuckles with harness soap.

Work was in progress there: the play of currycombs, the whirl of the cutting-box, the noise of the mangers, the bellowing of calves, the rich streamy sounds of the milking.