Did you see her new white spats to-night?"

Spats, yet!" "Rich girls could be glad to have it always so good.

You owe me the wear of your spats Sunday.

At that Miss Coblenz sat back on her tall wooden heels, mauve spats crinkling.

It was cold; it smelled of burned powder; it carried sounds he was beginning to appreciateshots, rumbles, spats, and thuds, whistles of varying degree, all isolated sounds.

"So he put on all his good clothes, even to his gray spats.

"I thought he might be going to a funeral-dressed so soberly," added Dick, and this caused a general laugh, for Tubbs was attired in a light gray suit, patent leathers with spats, and a cream-colored necktie, with gloves to match.

Also the plus fours and the Old Etonian spats.

Their loves, caresses, spats, quarrels, poutings, and reconciliations were as uncertain as the vagaries of the weather, as little guided by sense or reason as the passions of early childhood.

He had the face of a dean of a diplomatic corps or one of those comfortable old gentlemen in spats who have become fixtures in some city club.

(He spreads his arms and rises up through the looking-glass; you see his violet frock-coaty his check trousers, his white spats, and patent-leather boots ascending into and passing from view.

He clad himself in long frock-coats hat buttoned unevenly, big square boots, and trousers that invariably bagged at the knee and were a little short; he wore low collars, spats occasionally, and a tall black hat that was not of silk.

The public had refused to place any confidence whatsoever in his patent reversible spats, which, when turned inside out, could be made useful as galoches; and the beaux of New York actually rejected with scorn the celluloid chrysanthemum, which he had hoped would become a popular boutonnière because of its durability and cheapness.

It always looks as if it had its silk hat and spats on.

To them the little dancing teacher whose white spats twinkled so expertly in the tangle of their own clumsy clumping boots was more than a pretty girl.

At nine-thirty-five there came the main army of clerks, only they were not clerks, but "clarks"very impressive gentlemen with gloves, spats, sticks, silk hats and sack coats.

" "Never mind, I merely wanted to assure you that I have some olive spats, a high hat, and a walking-stick, but I left them at my hotel.

Louis Mitchell was the only salesman in Mr. Peebleby's office that morning who did not wear a silk hat, pearl gloves, and spats.

He wore a lemon-coloured vest and lemon-yellow spats.

"Not one woman in a thousand can wear those white spats.

Over them she wore spats of the kind affected by so many girls.

She had bravely made the best of them by covering them with spats, which I knew she could obtain quite cheaply at some bargain sale.

But she has covered them with spats, so that no one will suspect that she wears them from necessity, not choice.

But immediately after the roll-call had ceased, a few arrows whistled through the entrance and struck with short sharp spats into the hard-finished partition within.

“Well,” I said, seeing that I should only make myself ridiculous by trying to learn anything from him, “I hope our little spats through windows and on walls won’t interfere with our pleasant social relations.