Turn off the main thoroughfare and you may perhaps find a lean Musalman, with a green silk skullcap, sitting in a raised and well-lighted recess in front of an urn in which frankincense is burning.

Coal-black Africans, ruddy Pathans and yellow Bukharans squat on the open turf to the west of the Victoria and Albert Museum; Mughals in long loose coats and white arch-fronted turbans wander about smoking cigars and chatting volubly, while Bombay Memons in gold turbans or gold-brocade skullcaps, embroidered waistcoats and long white shirts stand on guard over their romping children.

If a Musulman, he wears only a skullcap, a shirt or jacket and a pair of soiled baggy trousers.

Mingled with these grow, lower, the spiraeas, white and pink, yellow touch-me-not, fresh white arrowhead, bright blue vervain and skullcap, dull snakehead, gay monkey-flower, coarse eupatoriums, milk-weeds, golden-rods, asters, thistles, and a host beside.

His cassock was black, but its hem, its buttons, and the pipings of its seams were scarlet; so were his stockings; so was the broad silk sash that circled his waist; so were the silk gloves, thrust under the sash; so was the birettina, the little skullcap that barely covered his crown and left to view a fringe of white hair and the rebellious lock upon his forehead.

It was De Wette himself!the scholar, author, professor,his height, size, figure, stoop,his head, his face, his features, eyes, mouth, nose, chin, every one,skullcap, study-gown, neck-tie, all, everything: there was no mistaking him, no deception whatever: there stood Dr. De Wette in his own library, and he out in the street:why, he must be somebody else!

The merchant debated, removing his skullcap, smoothing his grizzled fringe of curls, fitting the cap on again deliberately.

Solly Gumble removed his skullcap, fluffed his scanty ring of curls, and drew on the cap again.

They are the biretta, the skullcap, the cross, and the ring of the late Cardinal Bellairs.

" The feather from the wing of Helmas' goose King Ferdinand had caused to be affixed to the unassuming skullcap with a halo of gold wire which Ferdinand now wore in the place of a vainglorious earthly crown; so that perpetual contiguity with this relic might keep him in augmenting sanctity.

His dressa black cassock edged and buttoned with crimson, with a crimson skullcap and biretta, and a pectoral cross of goldenhanced the picturesqueness of his aspect, and as he entered the anteroom where one awaited his approach, the most Protestant knee instinctively bent.

When the names written on the register had been called, the Governor commanded the astonished monks to remove their skullcaps.

I opened my mouth to call Casey's attention to itthough I felt that he was watching it with that steady, squinting stare of his that never seems to wink or waver for a secondbut there it was again, come to a stop just under the crest of the mountain where the white slide was topped by a black rim capped with bleak, bare rock like a crude skullcap on Tippipah.