He walked off, taking with him the door mat, an umbrella that stood in the hall, four coats and three hats that hung on the rack, besides numerous other small portable articles of vertu that would have come handy for a professional "lifter.

Many are ex-policemen, and make up the pack that hunts the well-dressed lady shop-lifter, the gentle pickpocket, the agile burglar, the Paris Apache, and the common murderer of the Bill Sykes type; they are good dogs in their way, if you do not press them, though they are rather apt to give tongue.

All cowherds are popularly supposed to be cattle lifters, and a putwarrie after he has got over the stage of infancy, and has been indoctrinated into all the knavery that his elders can teach him, is supposed to belong to the highest category of villains.

In a moment she returned with a kettle-lifter, improvised very simply from a forked branch of a sapling.

His small chin, set in front of a strong neck, gave him a power lifter look.

I ran back to my room and locked myself in, and then stood, armed with the stove-lid-lifter, in case it should be Ladley and he should break the door in.

There's a shop-lifter over in the hosiery department!"

As soon as they were there a woman detective was sent for, and the supposed shop-lifter was taken behind a screen and searched thoroughly.

"Lloydand that!" "This was his little messenger, his useful Mercury," Hewitt explained, tapping the cage complacently; "in fact, the actual lifter.

"'Scale of the lifter up of right and truth' is thy name." Left post.

[Illustration] [Illustration] THE WISHBONE The stove lifter lay upon his iron side and looked across the top of the shelf which stood above the stove.

The stove lifter, the match box and all the other objects watched him with interest as he strutted back and forth.

"Then why didn't they place you above the door?" asked the stove lifter.

"How much better it is to be a useful object!" said the stove lifter.

" The mate replied in the prompt and obedient manner which seamen use to their superiors; and; lifter scanning the signs of the weather for a moment, he promptly proceeded to see the order executed.

At the first signal he himself and the four lifters begin to draw a long and full breath, and when the inhalation is completed, or the lungs filled, the second signal is given, for raising the person from the chair.

The face lifter.

The face lifter.

[Illustration: THE PROGRESSIVE WEIGHT-LIFTER.

Most of the shop-lifters are women.

The Inquisition, not satisfied with burning heretics, judged and punished gangs of cattle-lifters.

It is very pleasant to read such words as the following, and know that they expressed the inmost feelings of Angelina's heart: "Thou art, dearest, my best beloved, and often does my heart expand with gratitude to the Giver of all good for the gift of such a friend, who has been the helper of my joy and the lifter up of my hands when they were ready to hang down in hopeless despair.

This seemed a piece of glorious luck, and all rushed in like wolves lifter a wounded animal.

That will give you a buying power of 100,000, and I want you to use my last 50,000 shares as a lifter.

"Nor ye ain't one of them chicken lifters that raided Henderson's ranch?