Pinned to the board with an old pen-nib was a half-sheet of scribbling-paper, and inscribed thereon, in what was evidently a disguised handwriting, were some verses, which were seen at once to refer to the previous afternoon's defeat.

Seth Davis, the blacksmith, dropped his tools and hurried to the store, and the druggist three doors awaya dapper gentleman known as Nib Corkinshurriedly locked his door and attended the meeting.

Why can't th' ol' nabob write a letter, like common folks, an' give his extry cash to the poor?" "Meanin' you, Peggy?" asked Nib Corkins, with a chuckle.

You don't ketch me a-talkin' to New York at a dollar a throw, Nib, do ye?"

Sounds like printin' somethin', don't it?" "P'raps it's some letterheads fer the Wegg Farm," suggested Nib Corkins.

Bob West put in a card advertising his hardware business and Nib Corkins cautiously invested a half dollar to promote his drug store and stock of tarnished cheap jewelry; but Sam Cotting said everybody knew what he had for sale and advertising wouldn't help him any.

How profoundly would he nib a penwith what deliberation would he wet a wafer!

He arranged the register in his best manner and chose another nib for his pen.

You have to have some terrific nib to give away prizes.

Smile as you please, you moon-struck poet; and if you want an incident to put in your trashy law-epic, new nib your pen to introduce a wild Indian.

He pinched a bit of floss from the nib of his pen and tried to swing into the period of which he was writing.

If I had the "magic nib," I could grow lyrical over them.

End N. end, close, termination; desinence^, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail &c (rear) 235; verge &c (edge) 231; tag, peroration;

tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib; end &c 67; crown, brow; head, nob^, noddle^, pate; capsheaf^. high places, heights.

nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet. crag, crest, arete [Fr.], cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille^; spire, pyramid, steeple. beard, chevaux de frise

The fluid clung to the steel nib thinly; he went on writing with it, between the lines of ink: "I am in no danger.

" Again the prisoner cleaned the steel nib, after which he put it back in the bottle of ink, leaving it there.

Michelangelo took up the paper, and with a broader nib corrected the outline of a female figure, so as to bring it into perfect truth to life.

Mr. Taynton had picked up a quill pen, the same with which he had been writing before, for the nib was not yet dry.

A pen, flung down forcibly, quivered erect with its one surviving nib in the blotting pad.

Then he would nib his unshaven chinhe was always unshaven most miraculously and yet never beardedwith a flattened hand, and look at Mr. Bensington with one eye, and over him with the other, and say, "Oo, of courthe, Thirif

The Assistant-Adjutant will demonstrate how a morning's work may be made of the changing of a pen-nib, while still creating an impression of devoted industry.

Instantly everything was so hushed, that you might have heard Signsealer nib his pen.

I WILL NOW SELECT A NIB.

When soft, nib through a strainer, add a little boiling water or soup stock, add one and one-half teaspoons of salt, one-half teaspoon of sugar and a speck of white pepper, and beat the mixture well. Put hard brisket fat chopped in small pieces, about one-eighth of a pound will be sufficient, into a spider and cook until a light yellow, add a large onion, cut in dice and continue cooking with the fat until brown.

He said very little, the nub of it being that he had always thought of being a doctor, but not until a chance remark made by John Wesley, Jr., last night had the idea appeared to him important.

Mrs. Smith was also full of the subject, and while she twisted her hair into a small "nub" about the size, shape and color of a peanut, she expressed her views.

I didn't find that as hard a nub to swaller, as I'd a thought I would, though Almiry was the richest, pootiest, and good-naterest of the lot.

I got over that little nub after a while; and then I was so pleased, everything went smooth ag'in.

" "But surely you are not proposing to wear it in England, sir?" I saw that we had arrived at the nub.

It seemed as if she would never get to the nub.

I was reading in the paper the other day about those birds who are trying to split the atom, the nub being that they haven't the foggiest as to what will happen if they do.

I suppose it was fatigue that had made me so slow to apprehend the nub.

The nub of some seriously trivial quarrel?

The chief forms of Horus given in the texts are: (1) HERU-UR (Aroueris), (2) HERU-MERTI, (3) HERU-NUB, (4) HERU-KHENT-KHAT, (5) HERU-KHENT-AN-MAA, (6) HERU-KHUTI, (7) HERU-SAM-TAUI, (8) HERU-HEKENNU, (9) HERU-BEHUTET.