Stand back, ye rascals, or I will score your pates till they have as many marks upon them as a pothouse door!

A little group of pothouse politicians, wire-pullers, busybodies, local journalists, and small lawyers, working for various monetary interests, have "captured" the local Conservative organization.

From the wire-pullers of the Fabian Society and from the party organizers of both Liberal and Tory party alike, and from the knowing cards, the pothouse shepherds, and jobbing lawyers who "work" the constituencies, comes the chief opposition to this straightening out of our electoral system so urgently necessary and so long overdue.

The clerk forgot his master's presence and shut his notebook with a bang, 'Congratulate you, sir,' says he, quite pert to Maskew; 'you are the landlord of the poorest pothouse in the Duchy at 200 a year.'

Rutherfordis dead; and that we have received a most heart-broken letter from her motherleft with four grandchildren, orphans of a living scoundrel lurking about the pothouses of Little Russell Street, London: they and sheGod help 'em!at

The characters of the scandal novels were still princes and courtiers, but their exploits were more licentious than the lowest pothouse amours of picaros and their doxies.

Rowlandson and Gilray did not fight merely because they were naturally pothouse pugilists; they fought because they had something to fight about.

To his daughter he had spoken only a few cold words, and his last bidding to her was 'Take care of the pothouse!'

' Miss Fouracres stood for a moment with eyes cast down, then, looking gravely at Mr. Ruddiman, said in a sorrowful voice 'He calls the Pig and Whistle a pothouse.

'A pothouse, indeed!

A pothouse, indeed!

And whereas these street-corner scraps of rascaldom care for nothing but the pleasing of pothouse Gretchens, we that are men think of the concerns of the State, and make us ready for the great things that shall one day come to pass in Thorn and the Wolfmark.