We all remember the time when one tea-table, two or three card-tables, a pier glass, a small detachment of chairs, with two armed corporals to command them, on either side the fire-place, with a square piece of carpet in the centre of the floor, made a very decent display in the drawing, or (as it was then preposterously called) the dining-room.

He bore a huge hammer in his right hand, and in his left he carried a pair of pincers, in which was grasped a piece of shapeless metal.

He became a skilled worker, and at the time of his marriage was able to command a wage of thirty-six shillings a week, in addition to what he was able to earn by piece work.

It was whilst engaged on a piece of work on a ship at Runcorn, in Cheshire, that on May 14, 1853, the child was bornhis second sonto whom he gave the names of Thomas Henry Hall.

It is an excellent piece of work, but Caine regrets now that he threw away on a book of this kind all his knowledge of his subject.

My theory is that a novel, a piece of imaginative writing, must end with a sense of justice, must leave the impression that justice is inevitable.

We write it and then we write it again on our slates, because we do not always get the whole; then we write it on a piece of paper.

Besides what I was earning by my pen, I had due me, in a neighboring city, just the amount I should needthe income on my only remaining piece of real estate; and, as my tenant was always prompt, I wrote to him where to send me the money, and gave the subject no farther thought.

So taking each piece of money between his fingers, he rolled it in along the carpet, and withdrew as noiselessly as he had ascended.

This money was not given me directly by my parents; but I was allowed to go on an errand, or to do some little piece of work for a neighbor and thus earn it, outside of the performance of the duties that naturally fell to my lot at home.

One Sabbath morning, I dropped my last silver piece into the collection, with a prayerwhich I always offered at such a timethat God would bless it to the heathen, that some one might be led to Him by it.

The mother said to the little angel at her side, "Come, my child, it is time to go to bed;" and that little baby, as she was wont, knelt by her mother's lap and gazing wistfully into the face of her suffering parent, like a piece of chiseled statuary, slowly repeated her nightly orison.

For instance, Evans (P.O.), after thoroughly examining the purpose of some individual who is pleading for a piece of canvas, will admit that he may have a small piece somewhere which could be used for it, when, as a matter of fact, he possesses quite a number of rolls of that material.

As we got close we saw similarity to our old Erebus Glacier Tongue, and finally caught sight of a flag on it, and suddenly realised that it might be the piece broken off our old Erebus Glacier Tongue.

A piece of topographical history was disclosed at the recent trial of a cause at Westminster, which it may be worth while to record among your "Notes."

The common field referred to, is the well-known piece of garden ground lying between Craven Hill and the Uxbridge road, called also Bayswater Field.

Long after, a piece thereof happened to come to my handes; which notwithstanding it was al to rent and defaced, I shewed to mayster Richarde Pace, then chiefe Secretarie to the kinges most Royall maiestie, whereof he exceedingly reioysed.

To this is added an ornamental tail-piece called Death's Arms.

" "Then I'll come round to the door as quick as I've loaded up," said Mr. Griswold; and Miss Polly settled back in her chair to wait comfortably; a process much intensified by a large piece of Mrs. Griswold's gingerbread and a glass of new cider, both brought her by Lizzy's hospitable hands,readier even than usual just now, in the vain hope of stopping Polly Mariner's clattering tongue.

Monroe listened to one piece of news, but had ears for no more.

A piece of pie.

Found a two-and-a-half gole piece wunst.

a piece of wreck-age with a monkey clinging to it?

a piece of wreckage with a monkey clinging to it?"]

Why can't they mind their own business?" Mr. Turnbull eyed him indignantly, and then, sitting in a very upright position, slowly filled his pipe, and declining a proffered match rose and took one from the mantel-piece.