I explained to them what I wanted, and they seemed satisfied and sat down to smoke; but presently I saw one of them string his bow, and another sharpen his flint knife with a pair of wooden pincers and suspend it off the wrist of his right hand.

Transfixed by his umbrella, which makes him look like a walking cross between a pair of boots and a hat, Mr. BUMSTEAD leads the way athwart the turnpike and several fields, until they have arrived at a low wall skirting the foot of Gospeler's Gulch.

Get some worsted and a pair of needles; set up from twenty to forty stitches, more or less, and knit till you are tired.

Get a suit of clothesbroadcloth is the bestand a pair of boots to stand them in.

Why, she got a pair of sheep shears and cropped him closer'n a state prison bird, and tryin' to lift a house full of fokes, it fell onto him and smashed him.

Private Momo Bangura and Sergeant Smith were the next pair to start.

" A gold chain and watch-key, two gold brooches, and a pair of earrings were sent to Mr. Müller, with the following comment: "My wife and I having, through the exceeding riches of God's grace, been brought to the Lord Jesus, wish to lay aside the perishing gold of the world for the unsearchable riches of Christ, and send the enclosed for the support of the orphans".

but I should swim across, having but a thin coat and a light pair of shoes.

Suddenly Miss Slayback adjusted her tam-o'-shanter to its flop over her right ear, and, drawing off a pair of dark-blue silk gloves from over immaculately new white ones, entered Ceiner's Café Hungarian.

A pair of apaches whirl for one hundred and twenty consecutive seconds to a great bang of cymbals and seventy-five dollars a week.

" "That baby had some pair of shoulders!"

he said, shoving their pair of glasses to the table-edge.

I ain't a squab with a pair of high-priced ankles.

" He took from his bag a long pair of hollow pliers which he inserted in the lock and then screwed tightly, clutching the end of the key.

He had noticed that she had been rather preoccupied during dinner, an unusual mood for so lively a girl, and now he could not help watching the pair in the distance, she talking with an earnest, troubled expression, and he listening to her story in grave wonderment, now and again interposing a few words.

He stayed, crouched down, looking after the amazing pair, seeking a sign that the man was not Henshaw.

" She turned upon him a pair of solemn eyes, out of which the merry sparkle had faded.

Louis led the way out of the station to where a pair of magnificent horses stood, tossing their regal heads impatiently.

"Why Uncle Lenox was an" Instantly a pair of small hands were held like a vice against her lips.

* "Upon my word!" said Reginald some weeks later, as he came upon John sitting astride a cobbler's bench busily mending a pair of shoes, while Nan looked on admiringly.

Yes, by the height of a pair of Horns.

One of them appropriated a pair of boots, and was much surprised to find that he had to pay for them on being settled with.

I regret to say that I must quit Hamburgh without seeing the Schöne Marianna; but I hear she is now rather passèe, and I must console myself for this mortification by gazing upon the first pair of bright eyes which I shall meet to-morrow on my route to Kiel.

Only imagine what must have been the height of the possessor of such a pair of tusks!

"Palmer, whose father was a bill-sticker, and who had occasionally practised in the same humble occupation himself, strutting one evening in the green-room at Drury-Lane Theatre, in a pair of glittering buckles, a gentleman present remarked that they greatly resembled diamonds. '

Pare and slice apples and lay them in a buttered pie-dish.

But when his eyes grew tired, he would on an occasionif there was canning in the housego into the kitchen where my mother and grandmother worked, and help pare the fruit.

"Ye beldame," he said, with many oaths, "I'll pare your talons for ye."

Then take four or six cucumbers, pare them and cut them in slices, not very thin; likewise cut three or four in quarters length way, stew them in a little brown gravy and a little whole pepper; when they are enough thicken them with flour and butter the thickness of cream; so serve it up.

Take six middling cucumbers, pare and cut them in quarters long way, also two cabbage-lettices, and stew them in brown gravy; so lay them round your veal when you dish it up, with a few forc'd-meat-balls and some slices of bacon.

You must brown some butter in a pan, and cut six middling cucumbers, pare and slice them, but not over thin, drain them from the water, then put them into the pan, when they are fried brown put to them a little pepper and salt, a lump of butter, a spoonful of vinegar, a little shred onion, and a little gravy, not to make it too thin, so shake them well together with a little flour.

Take forty seville oranges, pare and cut them in slices, the best coloured seville you can get, put them all with the juice and seeds into half a hogshead of ale; when it is tunned up and working, put in the oranges, and at the same time a pound and a half of raisins of the sun stoned; when it has done working close up the bung, and it will be ready to drink in a month.

To every gallon put in a large lemon, pare and strain it, put the juice and peel into your tub, and when it is wrought put it into your barrel; let it work for three or four days, stir twice a day with a thible, so bung it up, and let it stand two or three months, according to the hotness of the weather.

Take quinces when they are full ripe, cut them in quarters, scald them till they be soft, pare them, and mash the clear part of them, and the pulp, and put it through a sieve, take an equal weight of quince and double refin'd sugar beaten and sifted; and the whites of eggs beat till it is as white as snow, then put it into dishes.

Take a pound of apricocks before they be full ripe, cut them in halves or quarters, let them boil till they be very tender in a thin syrrup, and let them stand a day or two in the stove, then take them out of the syrrup, lay them to dry till they be as dry as prunellos, then box 'em, if you please you may pare them.

Take ripe apricocks, pare, stone, and beat them small, then boil them till they are thick, and the moisture dry'd up, then take them off the fire, and beat them up with searc'd sugar, to make them into pretty stiff paste, roll them, without sugar, the thickness of a straw; make them up in little knots in what form you please; dry them in a stove or in the sun.

We could abridge it for our present space; but it would be injustice to the author to pare down his beautiful descriptions; and we will endeavour to give place to the tale in a future Number.

"El pare San Bernat!...

Que traguen al pare San Bernat!

Viva el pare San Bernat!

"Vitol el pare San Bernat!

"Vitol el pare San Bernat!"

"Vitol el pare San Bernat!..."

Halve and pare ripe apricots, or if not quite ripe, boil them till the skin can easily be removed.

Pare, core, and cut small any kind of fine baking applessay six pounds in weight; put them in a preserving pan with one quart of water; boil gently till the apples are very soft and broken, then pass the juice through a jelly bag; when, to each pint, add half a pound of loaf sugar, set it on the fire to boil twenty minutes, skimming it as the scum rises; it must not be over boiled, or the colour will be too dark.

APRICOT ICE Pare and grate one dozen apricots, and blanch a few of the kernels.

Pare the quinces and cut out the cores.

SPICED OR PICKLED APPLES Pare the apples, "Pound Sweets" are best; crab-apples may be pickled the same way, but do not pare.

SPICED OR PICKLED APPLES Pare the apples, "Pound Sweets" are best; crab-apples may be pickled the same way, but do not pare.

Next to this platter place a small bowl filled with [Hebrew **] prepared as follows: Pare and chop up a few apples, add sugar, cinnamon, pounded almonds, some white wine and grated lemon peel, and mix thoroughly.