You recall the class of street-readers of whom Charles Lamb wrote"poor gentry, who, not having wherewithal to buy or hire a book, filch a little learning at the open stalls."

" He takes his staff of Mamre oak, A knotted shepherd-staff that's broke The skull of many a wolf and fox Come filching lambs from Jesse's flocks.

Others, including all the statesmen and political theorists who prepared Germany for this War, have refused to admire; the power of England, they have taught, is not real power; she has been crafty and lucky; she has kept herself free from the entanglements and strifes of the Continent, and has enriched herself by filching the property of the combatants.

There is a class of street-readers, whom I can never contemplate without affectionthe poor gentry, who, not having wherewithal to buy or hire a book, filch a little learning at the open stallsthe owner, with his hard eye, casting envious looks at them all the while, and thinking when they will have done.

Lest I be misunderstood, let me say here that under the head of necessities of life I do not mean a new model automobile each year, moving pictures, mechanical substitutes for music or any other art, and the thousand catch-trade devices that appear each year for the purpose of filching business from another or establishing a new desire in the already over-crowded imaginations of an over-stimulated populace.

some domineering like hornets bigger than the rest, some like filching wasps, others as drones.

Keep off your filching hands, lads, and elsewhere ply your theft: Our neighbor is a miser, his Scare-Crow gets no gifts, His apples are not guardedthe path is on your left.

Filching all their time, yet granting generous donations for rest and sleep?

Filching all their time, yet granting generous donations for rest and sleep?

Fain would they filch that little food away, While unrestrain'd those happy gluttons prey.

Starting from that attack on aggregating property, which is the common starting-point of all socialist projects, the Fabians, appalled at the obvious difficulties of honest confiscation and an open transfer from private to public hands, conceived the extraordinary idea of filching property for the state.

Pupasse accused companion after companion of filching her sins, which each after each would violently deny, producing each her own list from her own pocket,proof to conviction of innocence, and, we may say, of guilt also.

" The king could not help smiling at the craft of the minister, in filching from his master the merit of the action, though he himself had been the author of the evil complained of; and turning to the Prince of Wales, said, "You see, George, what you have one day to expect; an English minister will be an English minister in every age and in every reign.

Mark his death-bed scenes:Poverty and Vice worked up into Horrorand the physicians in the corner wrangling for the fee!or the child playing with the coffinor the nurse filching what fortune, harsh, yet less harsh than humanity, might have left.

"If any one lends help or advice to a wife who is filching the property of her husband, he shall be held for theft.

Deliberately from his grip, from beneath his very eyes, fate, the relentless, was filching his one ewe lamb; yet he gave no sign of the knowledge, spoke no word of unkindness or of hate.

They filch away the earnings of the laboring classes.

Here while the millions of a continent waged heroic war for great wrongs and rights, here on the fighting-line of a beleaguered and starving city, here when at any instant the peal of his own guns might sound a fresh onset, behold him in a lover's part, loving "not honor more," setting the seal upon his painful alias, filching time out of the jaws of death to pursue one maiden while clung to by another.

Alexandria was full of low shopkeepers who would buy stolen goods from either blacks or whites, and Washington declared that not more than two or three of his slaves would refrain from filching anything upon which they could lay their hands.

"The Queen," said my daughter, "should celebrate her Jubilee by giving good gifts to her subjects, and not by filching from the poor their pennies.

The tricks to filch purses from the gaily-dressed ladies who flaunt in the churches, who serve as models to our poets of the golden age to depict a lying world devoid of honour.

He knew where the boys were, he helped to keep them away from their mother, so as to filch from them their present, and above all, future inheritance.

" "If you had been there, you could not have stopped the hurricane coming, any more than Canute could stop the waves," say I, filching a piece of history from "Little Arthur," and pushing it to the front.

GRIMALDI, JOSEPH, a famous English clown, son of an Italian dancing-master, born in London; was bred to the stage from his infancy, appearing on the boards when not yet two years old; his Memoirs were edited by Dickens, who describes him as "the genuine droll, the grimacing, filching, irresistible clown" (1779-1837).

"Whate'er it be that is within his reach, The filching trick he doth his fingers teach.