"I come fer the apple-picker.

Thar's a handful of russets in the orchard yit, that's calc'latin' ter spend Christmas up close ter heaven; butSay, Blossy," he added more loudly, since she did not raise her head, "yew seen anythin' o' that air picker?" Blossy glanced up from her ragged-edged crackly billet-doux with a start, and dropped the envelop to the floor.

We'll miss yew a lot; but" "Here's the apple-picker right over your head," interrupted Blossy tartly, and Abe felt himself peremptorily dismissed.

Paris understood that all had not yet been told as regards deeds of horror, and that beneath the oppressor there was the garbage-picker.

" "Ralph, the slate-picker!

" "Do I understand you, then, to claim that Ralph, the slate-picker, is my son?

"I ain't got nothin' agin him," he began, referring to Ralph, "he's a good enough fellerfor a slate-picker, for w'at

I know not what silent thief, or picker, or sturdy knave, has closed the road by which we fared.

Eare picker ( = barber)

He was an excellent forger, a skilful lock-picker, an ingenious planner of shady projects, and had given a great deal of earnest study to the subject of the loopholes of the law.

John, always a picturesque character, had become a hop picker in hop season, and a fisherman the rest of the year.

There were the father and son,both hands, as I said, in one of Kirby & John's mills for making railroad-iron,and Deborah, their cousin, a picker in some of the cotton-mills.

I told you I was a good picker.

You can take that bar out and work with it, while I use my own picker at the other.

If my picker had been an inch lower I'd have had him.

The song of the cotton picker.

The song of the cotton picker.

If he succeeds, he need not be "it"; but if he is caught, he must be the daisy-picker.

Among these are "Polish Raftsmen Resting in the Forest," 1867; "Polish Raftsmen before a Crucifix," 1869; "A Jew Rag-picker," 1870; "The Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam on Friday Evening," 1881; "A Goose Girl," 1891.

In the rich alluvium of the Mississippi the cotton will tower beyond the reach of the tallest "picker," and a single plant will contain hundreds of perfect "bolls;" in the neighboring "piney-woods" it lifts its humble head scarcely above the knee, and is proportionably meager in its produce of fruit.

But Ruth was such a little news-picker, with her music lessons!

Then he was a raisin-picker, which for him was another art.

Edwards presented him with a log chain that a bone-picker had lost in our pasture.

They looked as if they had been discovered in the bag of some poor rag-picker who had fished them up out of a gutter in the Five Points.

When Aristophanes would mock the creations of Euripides, which are meant to move the public by their declining fortunes, he at once turns the tragedian into a rag-picker.