And again, "'This is the grave digger' (would Tom Hickman exclaim in the moments of intoxication from gin and success, showing his tremendous right hand); 'this will send many of them to their long homes; I haven't done with them yet.'

There were present only Tomo Chichi, three of the chiefs, the upper church-warden, and the grave-digger.

I should have called it a well-digger.

He would have taught me to conquer worlds, and to leave the easy triumphs of dreamers to madmen, philosophers, and poets, He would have made me a man of action, a statesman, a soldier, a founder of cities or a digger of graves.

I then turned over in my mind the various characters I had met with in life; amongst these a few only seemed fitted for any story, and those rather as accessories; such as a politician who hated popularity, a sentimental grave-digger, and a metaphysical rope-dancer; but for a hero, the grand nucleus of my fable, I was sorely at a loss.

*** The Evening News informs us that Mr. HENRY WHITE, a grave-digger of Hellingly, has just dug his thousandth grave.

Its disciples will call a spade a spade; but only when it is a grave-digger's spade.

There is the root-digger, whose booty of mountain ovens is said to go to far Turkey to be turned into scent.

Then for the rest of the evening there was some talk about books, and the father, who was greatly given to reading, explained to his son what kind of literature would, as he thought, fit in best with the life of a gold-digger.

It had a Masonic Lodge of the Three Graces, with John Brown, the grave-digger, for Worshipful Master.

But a studio costs money, and Branwell had to give his up and go back to Haworth and the society of John Brown the stone-mason and grave-digger.

The whole trouble with Branwell was that he could not resist the temptation of impressing the grave-digger.

A letter of Branwell's (preserved by the grave-digger in a quaint devotion to his friend's memory) has achieved an immortality denied to his "Effusions".

"'OO's YER SWELL PAL, DIGGER?" Second Ditto.

Hamlet holding up the Skull which the Grave-digger threw to him, with an Account that it was the Head of the King's Jester, falls into very pleasing Reflections, and cries out to his Companion, 'Alas, poor Yorick!

Even the Digger Indians, squatting in the sun beside his door and gazing stolidly at the town and the bay beyond, would sell their soulsfor which the gray-gowned padres prayed ineffectively in the chapel at Dolorestheir wives or their other, dearer possessions for a very little bottle of the stuff that was fast undoing the civilizing work of the Mission.

They've gone through a farce trial that'd make the Digger Injuns ashamed of themselves; and they've condemned Jack Allen, that's got more real manhood in his little finger than there is in the dirty, lying carcasses of the whole damned outfitthey've condemned him to be hung!

This deserter, Banker by name, was an American, who had been a gold-digger, a gambler, a rough, and a dead shot in California, and he was very well able to take care of himself in any part of the world.

" "But he's not a Digger; he's a Cherokee, and only a half-breed at that," interpolated Wynn.

I remembered that I'd heard old Wynn say that Low, like the dd Digger that he was, collected these herbs; only he pretended it was for science.

But you must come as if to arrest him for some offensesay, as an escaped Digger from the Reservation, a dangerous tramp, a destroyer of public property in the forests, a suspected road agent, or anything to give you the right to hunt him.

The desperadoes are presumed to have escaped, as the only remains found are those of two wretched tramps, one of whom is said to have been a digger, who supported himself upon roots and herbs, and the other a degraded half-white woman.

Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoymentDouglas Jerrold.

So the marl borer went with the canal digger.

While the canal digger and marl seeker were at work, there had been neighborhood meetings and talks at which Captain Dalgas did the talking.