Grope your way down the passage, push aside the curtain with your stickit is far too foul to touch with the handand the mystery is made plain.

It is quite true that almost all critics who are worth their salt are "stickit" artists.

If beginners, then, are to find any systematic guidance, they must turn to the critics, not to the dramatists; and no person of common sense holds it a reproach to a critic to tell him that he is a "stickit" playwright.

Oh, I see, the man in the orchestra's doing it with a little triangle and a stickit's a little church up in the countrysee all the people lined upoh!

"There he gaesthe stickit comic," I heard one man say, as I passed.

He is like a dog that will try to get through a narrow gap with a stick in his mouthhe can't make out why he can't do his duty and bring the stickit catches on both sides, and won't let him through.

CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, novelist, born near New Galloway, Kirkcudbright; bred for the Church, and for some time Free Church minister at Penicuik, Midlothian, a charge he resigned in 1895, having previously published a volume of sketches entitled "The Stickit Minister," which was so received as to induce him to devote himself to literature, as he has since done with more or less success; b. 1859.

CHAPTER XXVI A Stickit Minister