A handsomely built North Devon chain-pump attracted much attention from the milkmen.

*** Several milkmen have reduced their prices from sixpence to fivepence.

Next below were their husbands and lovers in Sunday blouses, milkmen, butchers, bakers, black-bearded fishermen, Sicilian fruiterers, swarthy Portuguese sailors, in little woollen caps, and strangers of the graver sort; mariners of England, Germany, and Holland.

There are none of those solemn milkmen called deacons in connection with Wesleyanism; still, there are plenty of medicine men, up; up the ears in grace and business, belonging it.

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

The carts of milkmen and marketmen were the only vehicles that frequented it.

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!

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.

It is a common saying of a jockey, that he is "all horse"; and I have often fancied that milkmen get a stiff, upright carriage, and an angular movement of the arm, that remind one of a pump and the working of its handle.

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

The morning was very chilly, and as it was yet quite early, but few people were stirring: they were labourers hurrying to their work, milkmen, and trundlers of breadcarts.

Some gave a shout, some roll'd about, And antick'd as they rode, And butchers whistled on their curs, And milkmen tally-ho'd! About two score there were, not more, That gallopped in the race; The rest, alas! lay on the grass, As once in Chevy Chase!

Where birds once sang, and squirrels gambolled, and stray foxes lurked, the morning hours are made musical by the voices of milkmen, and the squirrels have given place to children and nurse-maids.

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.

It is frequently found inside village pumps, and in consequence is much persecuted by local milkmen.

We are asked by the Dogs' Trade Union to point out that this is not due to the Muzzling Order, but to the fact that just at present there is a fine supply of dairy-fed milkmen in that district.

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.

Sweeps, labourers, milkmen, costermongersall were impartially invested by the democratic bottle-boy with the rank and title of <i>armigeri</i>.

All milk obtained from city milkmen or any source not certainly known to be free from disease-germs, should be sterilized before using.

Changing from one cow's milk to another, or the use of such milk as is usually supplied by city milkmen, often occasions serious results.

" "Nobody sees me but milkmen," I said, humbly.

"Well, what will the milkmen think?" said my brother.

What tint do you think milkmen care the most for?" He sniffed.