Many a night-watchman gets a name for going to sleep when 'e's only getting a bit of 'is own back.

GOOD INTENTIONS "Jealousy; that's wot it is," said the night-watchman, trying to sneer "pure jealousy."

"] The night-watchman shook his head.

SKILLED ASSISTANCE The night-watchman, who had left his seat on the jetty to answer the gate-bell, came back with disgust written on a countenance only too well designed to express it.

Good-bye, Georgie!" "MANNERS MAKYTH MAN" The night-watchman appeared to be out of sorts.

Many a night-watchman gets a name for going to sleep when 'e's only getting a bit of 'is own back.

"Yes, there can be no doubt of that," the Chief went on to say, wagging his head wisely; "and they had been able in some way to get on to a lot of things that make us wonder like the name of the cashier and the night-watchman.

The night-watchmen exist to the present day, subject to special regulations, and those in the service are selected not from the freedmen only any longer but from on the rest of the classes as well.

It was only in his face that the difference was perceptible, though even here it rather lurked behind the features than openly modified them: showing itself now and then in the cautious glint of half-closed eyes, the forward thrust of black brows, or a tightening of the lax lines of the mouthas the gleam of a night-watchman's light might flash across the darkness of a shuttered house-front.

This safe is situated in the private office under the eye of the principal, and, as an additional precaution, the caretaker, who acts as night-watchman, occupies a room directly over the office, and patrols the building periodically through the night.

There's not many shore-going berths that a sailorman is fit for, and those that they aresuch as a night-watchman's, for instancewants such a good character that there's few as are to equal it.

I have seen the towering turban of the Bashi-bazouk, and his long sword, and some softas in the domes on the great wall of Stamboul, and the beggar, and the street-merchant with large tray of water-melons, sweetmeats, raisins, sherbet, and the bear-shewer, and the Barbary organ, and the night-watchman who evermore cried 'Fire!'

y don't believe in ghosts and make a laugh of 'em, and all I say is: let them take on a night-watchman's job.

"There's one thing about my job," said the night-watchman, slowly, "it's done all alone by yourself.

This was all they had time to do before our night-watchman came round; they left the window wide open, and at 4 A.M. Pat rang the bell and informed Mr. Prentiss that such was the case.

He reviewed her in the flooding new light upon her character, this light that revealed her as mercilessly as flash of night-watchman's lantern on guilty, shrinking form.

Upon reaching man's estate he adopted the calling of night-watchman, an occupation which provided him at once with a livelihood and ample opportunities for meditation.

he asked, slipping a crown into the night-watchman's hand.

He's lucky when 'is good looks 'ave gornor partly gornto get a berth as night-watchman or some other hard and bad-paid job.

A night-watchman can't be too careful, and I knew that it 'ud be all over Wapping next morning that I 'ad been dancing to a tuppenny-ha'penny mouth-orgin played by a ship's cook.

[Illustration: "Talking about eddication, said the night-watchman.

FRANZ DINGELSTEDT (1814-1881), on the other hand, found his sarcastic Songs of a Political Night-Watchman (1842) no bar to appointment as director of the theatres of Munich, Weimar and Vienna.

For the convenience of the night-watchman, and in order to sound the alarum, a steeple was required, and in the fourteenth century a tower was built.

There, beneath the shade of acacias in the daytime, or in the evening by the white light of incandescent gas, you may sit and watch the groups of men, women, and children all drinking from their tall glasses of beer, and you may listen to the whirr and ting-tang of the electric cars, where the challenge of sentinels or the cry of the night-watchman was once the most frequent sound.

"Oh, dear, no," replied Miss Dabbs, with difficulty suppressing a yawn, "He says you save him the expense of a night-watchman.