* CHAPTER II THE CRUEL MILKMAN

In came the cook, with her brother's particular friend, the milkman.

I saw him coming back just as the milkman woke me up.

Of course, she wasn't going to walk back with him!a pretty figure they'd cut strolling through the fields, like a house-girl and the milkman on a Sunday afternoon!

It was your milkman that happened to tell Matthew that he had a customer same name as himself.

A milkman, he said, passed the house very early every morning.

" At this moment David announced the milkman.

Counselling my man to keep strict guard over the prisoners, I went out to the road, stopped the milkman, and gave him a message which I was certain would insure the prompt arrival at my house of sufficient force to take safe charge of the burglars.

There were five of them, including the Chief of Police, and they were accompanied by several volunteer assistants, among whom was the milkman who had been my messenger.

By noon he had interviewed the butcher, the cobbler, the milkman, and the maker of candlesticks, but they treated him no better than the tailor had done, and as he was feeling tired he went and sat down under a tree.

" Then the baker, the tailor, the butcher, the cobbler, the milkman, and the maker of candlesticks rose in court and said "Ah, but we all knew there was something in him.

I sat there, with a crowd of children paddling on a raft outside the window, and Molly Maguire, next door, hauling the morning's milk up in a pail fastened to a rope, her doorway being too narrow to admit the milkman's boat, and I told him the whole story.

Are you devoted to your butcher and milkman?

At Sunnyside he hurried along the deserted street, where only the milkman wound his weary way in the early morning.

My milkman was a man of wrath As he came down the garden path; But, since the Hohenzollern fell, I find him almost affable.

The cry is taken up by a hundred voices, the tradesman, the carman, the butcher, the baker, the milkman, the school-boy, follow in hot pursuit.

Cook tells me it was the milkman found him and notified the police.

We owed a spite to a neighbouring milkman for tale-bearing, and we rendered his pump, the great source of profit, useless, by filling it with soot and mire.

Mrs. Myers was standing at the open door, remonstrating with a milkman.

The milkman did not come, neither did the long crispy French rolls, a New York breakfast institution for which the commuters confessedly have no substitute, and it was after nine before breakfast was served.

Tell her right at the start the worst about the butcher, and the grocer, and the iceman, and the milkman, and the plumber, and the gas-meterthat they want their money and that it has to come out of that little roll of bills.

Don't forget the little attentions due your wife, but don't hurt the grocer's feelings or treat the milkman with silent contempt in order to give them to her.

I was only wishing that our milkman in town would keep a cow!" When Horace Greeley was candidate for the presidency, he at one time visited New Orleans, whose old creole residents gave him a dinner; and to make it as fine an affair as possible, each of the many guests was laid under contribution for some of the rarest wines in his cellar.

Thus, we are in a haunted house; there is a noise of a rattling window; I associate it with a burglar, Brown with a milkman, Miss Jones with a lady in green, Miss Smith with a knight in armour.

You sit so straight and" I saw a milkman coming.