"Well, then, you must know first of all, that my father married a second time, and he unfortunately chose a woman well connected enough, but heartless and an utter snob.

The gulf between the Croat, with a steak under his saddle, and Alexis Soyer getting up a great dinner at the Reform-Club, or even Thackeray's Mrs. Raymond Gray giving "a little dinner" to Mr. Snob (with one of those famous "roly-poly puddings" of hers),what a gulf it is! 1881.

He was a great gentleman, a gentleman of his patron's schoolin short, a well-dressed snob.

The 'fun' of these letters is very inferior to that of 'Jeames' or of the 'Snob Papers,' and consists more in Malaprop absurdities and a wide range of bad puns, than in any real wit displayed in them.

As I said once in the mess-roomthere was a youngster there who took on himself to be witty, and talked about the still sow supping the milkthe snob!

the attorney's son from Brompton, who sold out;we shaved his mustachios, put a bear in his bed, and sent him home to his maAnd he said that Major Campbell might be very pious, and all that: but he'd warrantthey were the fellow's own words,that he took his lark on the sly, like other men the snob!

"He's just like a page out of Sponge's Tour, though he's not half as good a fellow as Sponge himself; for Sponge knew he was a snob, and lived up to his calling honestly: but this fellow wants all the while to play at being a gentleman; andUgh!

And if indeed our end must be more tame, Let large well-mounted photographs be made Of this high gathering, and let each name Beneath each face be generously displayed, That I may say, when penury has crept Too near for decency, to some old snob, "That was the kind of company I kept When England needed me"and get a job.

Those who remember how the four-fingered editor of the Bonegulch "Palladium" pricked up his ears and lifted up his falsetto crow when this lovely specimen of the British snob first honored him by striking him for a $ will appreciate the point of the joke.

P. The Origin of the word Snob.

Can any of your valuable correspondents give me the origin or derivation of the word Snob?

In the town in which I reside, in the north of England, the word Snob was formerly applied to a cobbler, and the phrase was in use, "Snip the tailor, and Snob the cobbler.

In the town in which I reside, in the north of England, the word Snob was formerly applied to a cobbler, and the phrase was in use, "Snip the tailor, and Snob the cobbler.

" I cannot discover how and why the word Snob was enlarged into its present comprehensive meaning.

Why, sneers and snob-ideas."

Not that she resented the advances of the rest of the crewshe was no snob, and would eat from the hand of the trimmer as readily as from my own, and allow anyone to stroke her; but it was I who taught her to sit up and beg, to "die for her country," to droop her antennæ whenever the name of VON TIRPITZ was mentioned, and to wave them for Sir DAVID BEATTY.

And they that were of the tribes of Nob and of Snob rejoiced with an exceeding great joy, and did shout with their whole might; so that their voices became as the voices of them that sell tidings in the street at nightfall.

there was no great shout; and the tribes of Nob and Snob were as the voice of men calling in the wilderness.

And the Queen hearkened to the word of Raikes, and lifted up Baines to be a Centurion of the Bath; also she placed honours upon Cardin, the Receiver-General and Accountant-General; upon Preece, Lord of Lightning; upon Thompson, the Secretarial Officer; and upon Tombs, the Controller, so that they dazzled the eyes of the tribe of Snob, and were favourably entreated of the sons of Nob. "20.

I'll hie me to my lonely hall, and by its cheerless hob I'll muse on other days, and wishand wish I wereA SNOB.

"She's no snob like Terry and wouldn't she enjoy this?"

That gaitered snob! AUNTIE.

The old gods are falling about us, there is little left to raise our hearts and minds to, and amid the wreck and ruin of things only a snobbery is left to us, thank heaven, deeply graven in the English heart; the snob is now the ark that floats triumphant over the democratic wave; the faith of the old world reposes in his breast, and he shall proclaim it when the waters have subsided.

The other youngsters laughed at his notions; one or two even went so far as to accuse him of being a snob and to twit him on having changed the spelling of his name and dropped the first "r" for the sake of a stylishness he pretended to despise.

He was not a snob; the position of uncle to Tristram would not have tempted him alone; he never did anything without a motive and a deep one.