As for me, give me trouser government, or give me a first class funeral procession with me for the corpse.

"Meine Uhr in meiner Tasche," he said, pointing to his torn trouser.

Again he mentioned his watch in his pocket, and looked at his torn trouser.

"No! Not at all; but when I was wounded the soldiers, running up in their anxiety to help me and dress my wound" (as a matter of fact they had run up to bayonet him, had not the officer intervened, for this swine had forfeited his right to mercy by emptying his revolver first and then surrendering) "inadvertently cut away my pocket in slitting up my trouser leg."

On a tall man, if he be thin, it appears like a cossack-trouser on a stick leg; if it be buttoned, it makes his leanness and lankness still more appalling and absurd; if it be open, it appears to be no part of his costume, and leads us to suppose that some elongated habit-maker is giving us a specimen of that rare bird, the flying tailor.

Mr. Wilks eyed him stupidly and, releasing his hand, coyly placed it in his trouser-pocket and breathed hard.

John, I remember, always carried some fern seed in his trouser-pocket.

Trouser . . . . . . . . . . .

The oil lamp had a glass reservoir, a chipped chimney, and a cardboard shade, and had probably cost less than a florin; five florins would have purchased the table; and all the rest of the furniture, including the arm-chair in which the dressing-gown reclined, a stool, an easel, three packets of cigarettes and a trouser-stretcher, might have been replaced for another ten florins.

He stood before Ralph, absently shaking the loose change in his trouser-pockets.

And run we did, for the umpire forgot to call "lost ball," and we should have been running still but for the ingenuity of one of our opponents; for, whilst all were busily engaged in searching among the grass, a red-faced yokel stole up unawares, with an innocent expression on his face, raced poor "Podder" down the pitch, produced the ball from his trouser pocket, and knocked off the bails in the nick of time.

Two nights arterwards she found a fish-hook in my trouser-pocket, and arter that I could ha' left untold gold thereif

DEPUTIES The representatives of each of the parties of the Trade Board shall have the power to appoint deputies for each branch of the trade, that is to say, for cutters, coat makers, trouser makers and vest makers.

The docker looked over his shoulder agin, and then 'e put his 'and in his trouser-pocket and just showed 'em a big, fat gold locket with diamonds stuck all over it.

" I gave way at last, and he put his 'and in 'is trouser-pocket for the key, and then found it wasn't there.

If the ship came up in the day-time, at six o'clock in the evening he'd be at the wharf gate waiting for me; and if it came up at night she was no sooner made fast than 'e was over the side patting my trouser-pocket and saying wot a good job it was for both of us that I was in steady employment.

And now, to my surprise and pain, Long past the stage of convalescence, The wound has broken out again With symptoms of pronounced putrescence; And, from the spot where once was laid Your likeness treasured in a locket, The trouble threatens to invade A tenderer placemy trouser pocket.

"Trouser maker wanted; constant."Jewish Chronicle.

You are inclined to discredit one particular form of Imposture, because it is not generally admittedcarries a certain discredit, andwitness the heel edges of my trouser legs, witness yonder viandssmall rewards.

The clergyman went deep into his trouser pocket, examined a handful of money, and showed his teeth in an agreeable smile.

As she watched, Mr. Tredgold dived into his left trouser-pocket and counted out some coins, mostly brown.

To these he added a few small pieces of silver gleaned from his waistcoat, and then after a few seconds' moody thought found a few more in the other trouser-pocket.

He had on a rubber coat and cap, but his trouser legs were rolled above the knee and he was barefoot, "Hannibal," I shouted, "you'll take cold with your feet in that wet grass!"

" Sam considered this for a while, and ended by drawing a folded scrap of paper from his trouser-pocket.

When I was initiated into the Hasty Pudding Club, I recognised in a tall fiend whose trouser legs were very apparent beneath the too scanty black drapery which enveloped him, no other than Phillips Brooks.