Tanned sealskin...............

Conceive the feelings of an old Lapland witch, who has had for the last fifty years all the winds in a sealskin bag, and has been selling fair breezes to northern skippers at so much a puff, asserting her powers so often, poor old soul, that she has got to half believe them herselfconceive, I say, her feelings at seeing her customers watch the Admiralty storm-signals, and con the weather reports in The Times.

For this journey they took only field-glasses, alpine staffs and a lunch in a sealskin sack.

He seemed to take a fancy to Rupert from the fust, and in a few minutes he 'ad given 'im a big cigar out of a sealskin case and ordered 'im a glass of sherry wine.

Sometimes his wife would tease him with the vanity which, on holidays by the sea, would send him forth on blustering tempestuous nights clad in a greatcoat of blue pilot-cloth and a sealskin cap, and tell how proud he was on one occasion, as he stood on the wharf, at being addressed as "captain," and asked what ship he had brought into port.

" It's only fancy, but I suppose That the Grasshopper wore his summer clothes, And stood there kicking his frozen toes And shaking his bones apart; And the Ant, with a sealskin coat and hat, Commanded the Grasshopper, brusque and flat, To "Dance through the winter," and things like that, Which he thought were "cute" and "smart.

Marian was sitting there, thinking, with a letter in her lap, She only looked up for a moment when he entered; and he plucked off his sealskin gloves and threw aside his overcoat in silence.

She had the only full-length sealskin coat in our town, and Ganz' shoe store sent to Chicago for her shoes.

Last of all the lady appeared, in a long sealskin travelling cloak, and closely veiled.

" She snatched up her sealskin jacket, and held it to him prettily, that he might help her into it, which he did neatly and cleverly, smoothing her great puffed-out sleeves under each shoulder of the coat, still talking eagerly and taking no toll for his trouble as she stood patiently, passively before him.

The crampons, repair of finnesko with sealskin, and an idea for a double tent have been discussed to-day.

The repair of sleeping-bags and the alteration of tents have already been done, but there are many other tasks uncompleted or not yet begun, such as the manufacture of provision bags, crampons, sealskin soles, pony clothes, &c. Hooper has another good sweep up the hut after breakfast, washes the mess traps, and generally tidies things.

It is a very good little volume, bound by Day in a really charming cover of carved venesta wood and sealskin.

A new pair of sealskin overshoes for ski made by Evans seem to be a complete success.

Have been up the Ramp, clambering about in my sealskin overshoes, which seem extraordinarily satisfactory.

A few days ago I could walk anywhere in my soft finnesko with sealskin soles; to-day it needed great caution to prevent tumbles.

You buy us a sealskin or a diamond-ring.

There was a lady with melting eyes, many children, and a long sealskin, and she availed herself of the excuse of seeing the hounds to rejoin a young man in whom she was interested.

"Take in Mrs So-and-so," she said to John, who would fain have escaped from the melting glances of the lady in the long sealskin.

His big sealskin cap, they said, had become stuck over his face as he went under, so that the water could not choke him.

I "went away" in a sealskin jacket with coral buttons, and a little sealskin cap.

I "went away" in a sealskin jacket with coral buttons, and a little sealskin cap.

Viushin immediately went to a little closet in one corner of the room, where he was in the habit of storing his personal effects, dragged out a large sealskin bag, and began searching in it for the desired article.

Dog-sledges they were, and as we drew nearer I recognised among them the old sealskin covered pavoska which I had left at Anadyrsk the previous winter, and which I knew must be occupied by an American.

The first victims of such famines are always the dogs; and the people being thus deprived of their only means of transportation, cannot get away from the famine-stricken settlement, and after eating their boots, sealskin thongs, and scraps of untanned leather, they finally die of pure starvation.