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. '

A-gain he sigh-ed: as he did so, the gi-ant hands ap-pear-ed.

It was pointed out to him in the distance, across billowy clouds of pear and apple-blossom, making the hollow in which the town nestled seem a vast pot-pourri jar, overflowing with newly gathered rose-leaves.

So down through the lanes he went, among the pear and apple orchards, from out whose blossom the clanging tower of the old church jutted sheer, like some Bass Rock amid rosy clustering billows.

This last paper will be a choke-pear I fear to some people, but as you do not object to it, I can be under little apprehension of your exerting your Censorship too rigidly.

" God's works are very great, but still His hands do not ap-pear: Though hea-ven and earth o-bey His will, His voice we can-not hear.

[Illustration: In gen-tle ri-vers, still and clear, We see the shin-ing Dace ap-pear.]

"THE FLOW-ERS AP-PEAR ON THE EARTH.

how fair And bright their buds ap-pear, As, open-ing to the sum-mer air, Our eyes and hearts they cheer!

[Illustration: When the warm sum-mer days draw near, From south-ern climes the Quails ap-pear.]

I'd rather go on as I am, and pin myself to a prickly pear, than shine in society by doing any of these monkey tricks you've been tryin' to put me on to.

One that was sent him at this time was an Essay on the Principles of Human Action; and the way in which he spoke of that dry, tough, metaphysical choke-pear, shewed the dearth of intellectual intercourse in which he lived, and the craving in his mind after those studies which had once been his pride, and to which he still turned for consolation in his remote solitude.

Nothing seemed to be sold there, for the window was occupied by empty glass jars, bearing such labels as "peppermint rock," "pear drops" and "bull's-eyes.

At one moment it is drawn out into a pear-like shape; the next it takes an elliptical form; and just as it disappears, the upper part of its disk becomes elongated into a ribbon of light, which seems to float for a moment upon the surface of the water.

In a half-hour she came slowly down the stairs, untwisting a long string of her mother's abandoned pearls, great pear-shaped things full of the pale lustre of gibbous moons.

By Ludwig Richter Hermann and Dorothea under the Pear tree.

Then with a nimble step she traversed the long, double court-yards, Leaving the stables behind, and the well-builded barns, too, behind her; Entered the garden, that far as the walls of the city extended; Walked through its length, rejoiced as she went in every thing growing; Set upright the supports on which were resting the branches Heavily laden with apples, and burdening boughs of the pear-tree.

Keeping the ridgeway, the footpath, between the fields she went onward, Having the lofty pear-tree in view, which stood on the summit, And was the boundary-mark of the fields that belonged to her dwelling.

Who might have planted it, none could know, but visible was it Far and wide through the country; the fruit of the pear-tree was famous.

what drives thee here, to be sitting Under the pear-tree alone?

I shall follow the footpath that crosses Over the hill by the pear-tree, and thence descends through our vineyard, Taking a shorter way home.

Thus she said, and e'en as she spoke they stood under the pear-tree.

[Illustration: HERMAN AND DOROTHEA UNDER THE PEAR TREE Ludwig Richter]

"Well, Charley," said I, looking over a copy of the letter O in which it was represented as square, triangular, pear-shaped, and collapsed in all kinds of ways, "We are improving.

How superior it is in these respects to the pear, whose blossoms are neither colored nor fragrant!

The fruits of the apple, the pear and the peach grew here handsomely, and the original owner had planted such trees in abundance.