" Before the girl could respond beyond an answering smile and "good morning," the new friend had put his own alpenstock into her hands and gone to the roadside, where, with unerring judgment, he selected a long, straight, tapering shoot of ash, and hewed it deftly with a monster jack-knife drawn from his trousers pocket.

Deftly, Harris shuffled the cards with his hands.

They carry targets blazoned bright with scimitars arow, But each deadly blade is deftly made into a Cupid's bow.

But, pray you say to her, The fair one with the deftly braided hair, I leave the tribe, but shall return for her.

Their outlines did not clash, so deftly drawn, Although without galammy handiwork.

He deftly colored her dress blue and white and gave her two braids in her ribbon hair.

This was thrown into the bowl of oil, and she deftly began preparing tea.

His hands moved so rapidly and deftly that, although he seemed to rise without a second's delay, the safe was closed and the combination locked when he did so, the buffet door was shut and its key in his pocket.

In a moment he deftly cuts the stitches of the mattress and lays bare the wool which he never touches with his fingers.

Then the shorter stick comes into play, picks the wool from the longer, throws it into the air, beats it this way and that, tosses it and catches it until every fibre is clear, when the fluffy mass is deftly cast aside.

"No," she said, threading her needle and deftly sewing a shining, silvery scale onto the mermaid's dress lying across her knees, "I'll take my chances with men.

" He thought her request rather extraordinary, but he sat up and with the aid of the mirror, scraped away at his wet hair, parting it in the middle and combing it deftly into two gay little Mercury wings.

And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance,advance and retire, turn your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle and back again to your place,Fezziwig "cut,"cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs.

" With the compressed lips of self-approbation she deftly assisted her mistress to swathe her head in the mantilla-like veil.

Git on, old boss!" As he rode down the trail toward Sour Creek he carefully and deftly cleaned his revolver and reloaded the empty chamber.

Let others write what others deftly may, I aim with thought to fill my wintry day.

A LITTLE PAIR Tiny step and lofty bound, Through dew and exhalation; Ye trip it deftly on the ground, But gain no elevation. INQUISITIVE TRAVELLER Can I indeed believe my eyes?

As a satirist Pope, though he did not hit so hard as Dryden, struck more deftly and probed deeper.

Another lasso, deftly thrown about its hind legs, is fastened to a tree, and the strongest of the party then seizes the bellowing beast by its tail, which he twists until his victim falls over on its side and is dispatched.

He had seen Mrs. Condor deftly construct a card-table out of an easy-chair, and he had no doubt that the oak table in the center of the room could have been converted into a chiffonier or a chassis-lounge at a given signal.

She tossed up her fan and caught it deftly, and looked to him for admiration.

But the brave parent not only threw up the window and bolted the shutters, but did it coolly and deftly with each window, front and back, thus shrouding the room in obscurity.

Bits of butter must be so deftly introduced that even the rolling pin may be unconscious of its work.

No jewelled snake could shed her skin as deftly as this young maid had slipped from her shoulders the frail garment of civilization.

The dish so deftly constructed by King Arthur, according to one of his numerous biographers, exhibited that wedlock of fruit with animal matterfat and plumswhich we post-Arthurians eye with a certain fastidious repugnance, but which, notwithstanding, lingered on to the Elizabethan or Jacobaean eranay, did not make the gorge of our grandsires turn rebellious.