100 for his five nights' description of the martyrdom of Husain; while but a little distance away boys painted to resemble tigers leap to the rhythm of a drum, and the Arab mummer with the split bamboo shatters the nerves of the passerby by suddenly cracking it behind his back.

THE LONE WOLF'S DAUGHTER I THE GIRL SOFIA II MASKS AND FACES III THE AGONY COLUMN IV MUTINY V HOUSE OF THE WOLF VI THE MUMMER VII THE FANTASTICS VIII COUNCIL OF THE GODLESS IX MRS.

VI THE MUMMER Alone with his secretary, Prince Victor Vassilyevski dropped indifferently the guise of manner with which he had clothed himself for the benefit of the woman whom he claimed as his own child.

mummer, guiser^, guisard^, gysart^, masque.

Benedictus Victorius Faventinus, in his empirics, accounts it an especial remedy against melancholy, [3508]"to hear and see singing, dancing, maskers, mummers, to converse with such merry fellows and fair maids."

Just as this equitable decision was pronounced, the sound of a trumpet proclaimed the approach of a division of the principal mummers, if so irreverent a term can be applied to men engaged in a festival as justly renowned as that of the vine-dressers.

"'Odds my life, but this goes off with a grace, brother Peter!" exclaimed the Baron de Willading, as he followed the vine-dressers in their retreat, with an amused eye"If we have much more like it, I shall forget the dignity of the bürgerschaft, and turn mummer with the rest, though my good for wisdom were the forfeit of the folly.

Two youths then advanced, bearing on a pole a cluster of grapes that nearly descended to the ground, and which was intended to represent the fruit brought from Canaan by the messengers of Joshuaa symbol much affected by the artists and mummers of the other hemisphere, on occasions suited to its display.

In the mean time the procession had reached the station in front of the stage, where the mummers had already commenced their rites.

At this moment, as the mummers were wheeling past the town-house, and the air was filled with music, while a general movement stirred the multitude, a cry of alarm arose in the building.

Peter Hofmeister and divers others of the magnates of the canton, were particularly loud in their plaudits on this repetition of the games, for, by a process that will be easily understood, they, who had been revelling and taking their potations in the marquees and booths while the mummers were absent, were more than qualified to supply the deficiencies of the actors by the warmth and exuberance of their own warmed imaginations.

here we have the higher orders of the mummers in person this comely creature is, in reality, Mariette Marron of this country, as strapping a wench as there is in Vaud, and as impudentbut no matter!

A large portion of the curious followed the disconcerted mummers from the square, while others hastened to break their fasts at the several places selected for this important feature in the business of the day.

with twenty minds to call From his inner bed-chamber the Forty forth, Who watched all night beside their monarch's bed, With naked swords and torches in their hands, And test this lover's-knot with steel and fire; But with a thought, "To-morrow yet will serve To greet these mummers," softly the window closed, And so went back to his corn-tax again.

I persuaded the head of our mummer troop to write out their play as it was handed down to him by his predecessors.

"Now run along, baby; your mummer will be waitin' for you.

Examine in this connection Mr. Moore's Mummer's Wife, our greatest English realist novel, and for the matter of that one of the supreme things in English fiction, and you will see that the scrupulous fidelity of the author's method, though it denies him those concessions to a sentimentalist or romantic view of life which are the common implements of fiction, denies him no less the extremities of horror or loathsomeness.

He grinned at Mrs. Egg over the mummer's shoulder.

Dict., w., Mummer.

Does it not seem strange to apply the dear old English noun, so redolent of peace, and quiet, and privacy, to the feverish life of a mummer?

BY GEORGE MOORE AUTHOR OF "A MUMMER'S WIFE," "A MODERN LOVER," "A DRAMA IN MUSLIN," "SPRING DAYS," ETC.

Murder wears a mummer's mask, by Brett Halliday, pseud.

Murder wears a mummer's mask, by Brett Halliday, pseud.

For your wages, take my body, That at least to you I leave; Set the sulky plumes upon it, Bid the grinning mummers grieve.

Not a mummer has stalked forth; not an auditor sits waiting.