"A large bright room, ... a sandheap in one corner, a low tub or bath of water in another, a rope ladder, a swing, steps to run up and down and such like, a line of black or green board low down round the wall, little rough carts and trolleys, boxes which can be turned into houses, or shops, or pretence ships, etc., a cooking stove of a very simple nature, dolls of all kinds, wooden animals, growing plants in boxes, an aquarium.

The closer settlement of the land, the rural delivery of mails (the morning newspaper reaches the tin box at the end of my lane at noon), the farmer's telephone, the spreading country trolleys, more schools and churches, and cheaper railroad rates, have all helped to bring the farmer's life well within the stimulating currents of world thought without robbing it of its ancient advantages.

No, not exactly ordinary, though we ourselves went back to a comfortable hotel, for the big city of Lille, which had shown trolley-cars and a certain amount of animation earlier in the day, was now, at dusk, like a city of the dead.

One-horse carriages are impracticable, because the Rumanian, or at least the Bucareiio, thinks one horse beneath his dignity, while a trolley- caralthough there are trolley-carsis, of course, not to be thought of.

The Constantinople trolley-cars are divided by a curtain, on one side of which sit the men, on the other the veiled women.

but I was off my trolley.

"He may deny it, but I know I am not off my trolley.

He shrugged, jammed on his hat and strode off in the direction of the trolley car.

The rest of the world was supremely unimportant as they went canoeing and motoring and trolley riding and mountain climbing and "movieing" together.

Here and there a man or woman, mush-roomed by an umbrella, dashed quickly for a car, and the trolleys, gray and crowded, seemed to duck hurriedly under the downpour.

In the faded sunshine of the unusually warm winter afternoon, with its vistas of gold-dusty air, and its noise of playing children and on-surging trolleys and trucks and all the minute life of the saloons and the storeswomen hanging out of windows to get the recreation of watching the confused drama of the streets, neighbors meeting in doorways, young men laughing and chatting in clusters about lamp-postsJoe toiled valiantly and happily.

Her desire was very definiteto walk down Eightieth Street, to hear and see the trolleys bounding down the little hill to Seventy-ninth Street, to shop on Third Avenue, to go threading her way through the swarm of school children outside the school gates.

The railways, trolleys, and automobile busses are unsatisfactory means of locomotion for sight-seeing.

The Road was thick with its varied traffic, omnibuses, trams, vans, carts, trolleys, cyclists, motors, and a marvelling crowdloafers, women, nurse-maids, shopping women, children, venturesome hobble-dehoysgathered behind his gingerly moving feet.

The lack of transit facilities is partly remedied by the fact that workable veins often lie near enough to the sea for the produce to be carried straight from mine to ship, by an endless-chain system of overhead trolleys; so that, once capital is secured for installing the plant and opening the mine, profitable operations can be carried on irrespective of the general economic condition of the country.

The very rapids and waterfalls which now make the navigation of the river so difficult and dangerous would drive electric trolleys up and down its whole length and far out on either side, and run mills and factories, and lighten the labor on farms.

The Trolley car family.

The Trolley car family.

The tired trolley car.

And there are the trolleys and electric railways that have been made possible.

Every Morning about 9 o'clock she would wave the Housework to one side and tear for a Trolley.

Meanwhile, Mr. Britt unostentatiously absented his body as well, taking the trolley for an inland village.

The bustle and life as the train became due were admirably attuned to his feelings, and when it drew up and they embarked, to the clatter of milk-cans and the rumbling of trolleys, he was beaming with satisfaction.

Can you wear cheap clothing and ride in trolleys, and economize on laundry bills to prove your love for this man? You never have known one single hardship in your life; you never have faced poverty, or even experienced the ordinary economies of well-to-do people.

So I held it on my lap going in by train from Lexington, where Blakey lived, and when I got out at the old Lowell DepotNorth Station, nowand got into the little tinkle-tankle horse-car that took me up to where I was to get the Back Bay carThose were the prehistoric times before trolleys, and there were odds in horse-cars.