But if a street organ comesnot a mournful one-legged box eked out with a monkey, but a big machine with an extra man to pullthe children leave their games.

" "Did you never happen to notice that one-legged fella pluggin' about Dawson?" He had gone down on his hands and knees to see if Nig was asleep under the camp-bed.

Thus, George Bellew, American citizen, and millionaire, piped away on a tin whistle with all the gusto in the world,introducing little trills, and flourishes, here and there, that fairly won the one-legged sailor's heart.

"Why then," said Bellew, sinking into the easy-chair that Miss Priscilla indicated with a little stab of her needle, "why then the muffins were delicious, Aunt Priscilla, and Peterday was just exactly what a one-legged mariner ought to be.

All the vacations he speaks as good English as any man in England, but in term times he breaks out of that hopping one-legged pace into a racking trot of issues, bills, replications, rejoinders, demures, querelles, subpoenas, &c., able to fright a simple country fellow, and make him believe he conjures.

There they were, just as Nat had drawn them on the missing paper, 'The One-Legged Dancers!'

" Butler was a one-legged man, so Nash kept back the question which naturally formed in his mind.

When I could sit on the one-legged stool, which Jakie had made me, hold a pail between my knees and milk one or more cows, without help, they both praised my clevernessa cleverness which fixed more outside responsibilities upon me, and kept me from Georgia a longer while each day.

He has allowed the land to go back to grass, and the only labour he employs on it is a one-legged boy, whom he pays "in kind."

My old friend, the one-legged cock pheasant, who for the third year in succession has contrived to escape our annual battue, comes up to my feet to take the bread I offer.

And the One-legged Smelt.

completedAngria makes overtures for peaceBoone outwitted ... CHAPTER VII EXPEDITION AGAINST GHERIAH Trouble with the PortugueseMadagascar pirates againLoss of the CassandraCaptain Macrae's brave defenceThe one-legged pirateRichard LazenbyExpedition against GheriahMr.

"Log of the Addison. CHAPTER VII EXPEDITION AGAINST GHERIAH Trouble with the PortugueseMadagascar pirates againLoss of the CassandraCaptain Macrae's brave defenceThe one-legged pirateRichard LazenbyExpedition against GheriahMr.

England and three others who had befriended Macrae were set on shore, among them, no doubt, the one-legged pirate, and in due course of time made their way over to St. Mary's.

On Woodes Rogers assuming the governorship of the Bahamas, La Bouche and England sailed for Madagascar. Stevenson, in "Treasure Island," evidently took his idea of John Silver, the one-legged pirate, from this incident.

"I have a one-legged bronze Hercules from Pompeii.

"And what can a one-legged Bertram do?"

In the New England town of Plymouth in November, 1729, a certain Thompson Phillips who was about to sail for Jamaica exchanged a half interest in his one-legged negro man for a similar share in Isaac Lathrop's negro boy who was to sail with Phillips and be sold on the voyage.

Some, embracing numerals, form a series, though it is seldom carried far; as, one-legged, two-legged, three-legged, four-legged.

Into the streets of Paris, therefore, came the convalescents and the lightly wounded, and one-armed or one-legged officers or simple poilus with bandaged heads and hands could be seen in any restaurant among comrades who had not yet received their baptism of fire, had not cried "Touché!"

and from Manning, the greybearded storekeeper, to Rank Judge, the one-legged saddler, there was no one to say him nay, none to contest his right of authority.

One-legged gull.

Bill was an old, one-legged negro and very superstitious.

'That,' I says, 'would be much the same as if a one-legged man should steal a pair of boots, and think to make it a righteous action by giving away the one he didn't want in charity.'

And a calculation of the middle verse in the Bible, and the longest verse, and the shortest verse, and the like edifying Scriptural researches, all copied out like flies' legs, in writing no one can see but Julius with his spectacles off, and set in a brooch as big as the top of a thimble, all done by a one-legged sergeant of marines.