In a phrase, the post card which pictures "E 9436Grave of John Charteris" is among the seven similar misinterpretations of localities most frequently demanded in Lichfieldian drugstores and news-stands.

At the frontier the honest customs inspector landed, first thing, on a copy of "Tartarin sur les Alpes," which I had picked up at the railroad news-stand in the Hague.

As he moved toward the "L" station at the corner, Sadie and his mother waved to him; in the street, boys too small to be Scouts hailed him enviously; even the policeman glancing over the newspapers on the news-stand nodded approval.

He had had old Pete drive him straight into town, at that, and there he had found the news-stand edition containing the criticisms.

He had got his mind into a fairly quiescent state by then which made the trick it played when he first caught sight of the great stacks of Tribunes and Heralds on the corner news-stand all the more terrifying.

On his way down-town Phillips stopped at a Subway news-stand and bought all the morning papers.

The morning paper hit the news-stands well after 10 am on such occasions.

Its biggest 'sworn circulation' was 700 copies, of which about 500 were bona fide subscriptions, and the rest 'news-stand sales.'

The privilege was conceded to him of charging double the price for the papers which was asked on the streets or at the news-stands, and his percentage of profits was very large.

IV He reported what had passed to her father when Mr. Gerald came back from his stroll into the town, with his hands full of English papers; Gerald had even found a New York paper at the news-stand; and he listened with an apparent postponement of interest.