He had been arraying himself for a full hour, and after a tub-bath and a shave he stepped, spic and span, into the street with his head steadily held high, except when he bent it to look at the shine of his boots, which was the work of his own hands, and of which he was proud.

Feeling very spic and span, and still a trifle uncomfortable from the vigorous attentions of Ann, who cleansed her as though she had been a doorstep, she paced slowly up and down the path.

Feeling very spic and span, and still a trifle uncomfortable from the vigorous attentions of Ann, who cleansed her as though she had been a doorstep, she paced slowly up and down the path.

The spic and span may go well with a coach and four, but not with the automobile.

An alarm-clock on a small shelf edged in scalloped white oilcloth ticked with spick-and-span precision into a kitchen so correspondingly spick and span that even its silence smelled scoured, rows of tins shining into it.

Silk shirt, a very pure white; bright tie, very new; white flannels, very spick and span; silken hose and low white ties.

It hung up fronting my old cobwebby folios and batter'd furniture (the fruit piece has resum'd its place) and was much better than a spick and span one.

We drove into the courtyard of the solid old Flemish housea house in which he and his father before him had lived, with tiny rooms full of old paintings, garden, stable, and hothouse packed close in the saving Belgian fashion, and all as spick and span and shining as if built yesterdayand then into the street again.

So did our spick and span lieutenant.

The man who had been caughtor boy, rather, for he was but thatwas anything but spick and span.

Outwardly the once spick and span cruiser bore every mark of hard usage.

* "THE REG'LAR ARMY MAN" He ain't no gold-laced "Belvidere," Ter sparkle in the sun; He do'n't parade with gay cockade, And posies in his gun; He ain't no "pretty soldier boy," So lovely, spick and span, He wears a crust of tan and dust, The Reg'lar Army man; The marchin', parchin', Pipe-clay starchin', Reg'lar Army man.

Afterward he took his smart visored cap off the hook and limped down town, his boots and leggings and uniform very spick and span from Ma Werner's expert brushing and rubbing.

Red-cheeked emissaries of butcher, baker, and grocer, order-book in hand, knocked cheerily at kitchen doors, and went smiling away; the ponies they drove were well fed and frisky, their carts spick and span.

And she was in her victoria and away, a very grand-looking lady, indeed, with two in spick and span summer livery on the box, with her exquisite white and gold sunshade, a huge sapphire in the end of the handle, a string of diamonds worth a small fortune round her neck, a gold bag, studded with diamonds, in her lap, and her superb figure clad in a close-fitting white cloth dress.

The world was to me, at this time, what a toy shop had been fifteen years before: everything was spick and span, and every illusion was set out straight and smart in new paint and gilding.

The Americans, for instance, who are always so spick and span, and" The means of rescue came to me in the shape, of a vast monster on wheels, bright with yellow and scarlet, thundering over the road.

The steamers halted; Colonel Rondon and several of his officers, spick and span in their white uniforms, came aboard; and in the afternoon I visited him on his steamer to talk over our plans.

SAFETY EVERY DAY. SPICK AND SPAN.

SAFETY EVERY DAY. SPICK AND SPAN.

HOOPES, FLORENCE J. SEE SPICK AND SPAN.

HOOPES, MARGARET C. SEE SPICK AND SPAN.

SAFETY EVERY DAY. SPICK AND SPAN.

SEE SPICK AND SPAN.

HOOPES, FLORENCE J. SEE SPICK AND SPAN.

And Bob was there, too, all spick and span in his new lieutenant's uniform with Kittie Fleming hanging on his arm, her eyes drinking him in with every glance.

"I will tell you every thing that happens to me, bad and good," reply I, quite gayly, "and all the unlucky things I saythere, that is a large promise, I can tell you!" I am no longer dusty and grimy; quite spick and span, on the contrary; so freshly and prettily dressed, indeed, that the thought will occur to me that it is a pity there are not more people to see me.

A congener of his, Evans"Old Man Evans"boasted of a boat which was as spick and span as a post-captain's gig, and of a crew who wore uniform.

The guest landing at the yacht club float with his host, both of them wearing oilskins and sou'-westers to protect them from the drenching rain, inquired: "And who are those gentlemen seated on the veranda, looking so spick and span in their white duck yachting caps and trousers, and keeping the waiters running all the time?