You run down a fact, and think you've got it, but, before you know it, it has slipped, like the "little joker," over to the other side.

REPRESENTATIVE MANUFACTURER, (springing open Chinese surprise box.)"THERE!WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT LITTLE JOKER?" KNIGHT OF ST. CRISPIN."PSHAW!

One facetious class-mate, standing close to the sink, offered to sell him by auction; and hammering on the stones with the fragment of a bat handle, knocked him down for threepence to another joker, who said he'd do for a pen-wiper.

Bibbs was the last to arrive on the scene of action, and did so with a bag of sweets in one hand, a book in the other, and a piece of paper, pinned by some joker to the tail of his coat, bearing the legend, "Please to kick me"a request which was immediately responded to in a most hearty and generous fashion by all present.

There will sometimes start up a College joker, who does not consider that what is a joke in a College will not do in the world.

Of course it would be better to trip him up on this case, but if you can get hold of something else Luke has done that can be proved anyways shady it would be four aces and the joker.

In two hours we shall just about speak this out-of-the-way joker.

The deuce?" "The joker," answered Grim.

If I say 'yes,' I risk my future on your backgammon board; if I say 'no,' my life is worth a millieme, for you will tell that Sikh you call the 'joker' to attend to me!"

Mike had informed Jellicoe of the details of his interview with Mr. Barley at the White Boar, and Jellicoe, after a momentary splutter of wrath against the practical joker, was now in a particular lighthearted mood.

He, he, he!What a joker you are, Lázar Elizárych!

"You're a joker!" "Hurry up, then, and get it," Frank urged.

He must be a joker!

The Lieutenant is a very brave man, a great joker, and, as the saying is, hath got the length of his commander's foot; though he has another favourite in the house, called Tom Pipes, that was his boatswain's mate, and now keeps the servants in order.

Romeo plays a joker.

The Boothill Joker.

R117356, 11Sep53, Patricia Marion Caldecott Frere (C) The joker.

COBB, IRVIN S. Ace, deuce, ten spot, Joker.

The Boothill Joker.

R639255. Play the gunsmoke joker.

THE YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT "The Chat, besides being a very handsome bird, is a ventriloquist and a great joker.

Large and vigorous and strong of beak as he is, this practical joker is wise, and does not often show his conspicuous yellow breast in open places.

THE AMERICAN REDSTART "The Redstart is the dancing Warbler, just as the Chat is the joker.

Without you stand quite close at hand, A broker is a broker; But stick by me, and then he'll be A very pleasant joker!

If those, who thus rigorously exercise the power which the law has put into their hands, be asked, why they continue to imprison those whom they know to be unable to pay them; one will answer, that his debtor once lived better than himself; another, that his wife looked above her neighbours, and his children went in silk clothes to the dancing-school; and another, that he pretended to be a joker and a wit.