Despotism itself is obliged to truck and huckster.

Just as I came up to one operator, she lifted an engine truck-box to the table and started drilling out the studs.

Mother's labor is not her own, she lives under the truck system, so to speak.

After paying the proper attention to the greatest stranger, Mrs. Hawker turned to Captain Truck and said "This, then, is the gentleman to whose skill and courage you all owe so muchwe all owe so much, I might better have saidthe commander of the Montauk?

"They may say what they please," muttered Captain Truck, who had been a silent but wondering listener of all that passed; "she is worth as many of them as could be stowed in the Montauk's lower hold.

"We are citizens of a surprisingly great country, commodore," commenced Mr. Truck, after one of his heaviest draughts; "every body says it, from Maine to Florida, and what every body says must be true.

I take it, Captain Truck, that you will be present at the wedding?

" Here both the worthies, "freshened the nip," as Captain Truck called it, and then the conversation soon got to be too philosophical and contemplative for this unpretending record of events and ideas.

John Effingham, the two bridegrooms, Captain Ducie, Mr. and Mrs. Bloomfield, Mrs. Hawker, Captain Truck, Mademoiselle Viefville, Annette, and Ann Sidley, were all assembled in the drawing-room, ready to receive them; and as soon as shawls were thrown around Eve and Grace, in order to conceal the wedding dresses, the whole party proceeded to the church.

Captain Truck was alone disposed to be sentimental, and, more than once, as he looked about him, he expressed his doubts whether he had pursued the right course to attain happiness, "I find myself in a solitary category," he said, at the dinner- table, in the evening.

" "And I am overlooked entirely," cried Mr. Howel, who had been invited to make one at the wedding-feast; "what is to become of me, Captain Truck, if this marrying mania go any further?" "I have long had a plan for your welfare, my dear sir, that I will take this opportunity to divulge; I propose, ladies and gentlemen, that we enlist Mr. Howel in our project for this autumn, and that we carry him with us to Europe.

" "Never," said Captain Truck, positively.

It was easy to raise the laugh on such an occasion, and contrary to the usage of the Wigwam, where the men usually left the table with the other sex, Captain Truck, John Effingham, Mr. Bloomfield, and Mr. Howel, made what is called a night of it.

They put his stretcherwe've been packin' him on oneinto a motor-truck.

No matter in what town you live, something has been delivered at your door by a motor-driven wagon or truck.

Now that the pleasure-car has practically been standardized, vast energy will be concentrated on the development of the truck.

The ability and efficiency of the commercial truck for hard city work are undisputed.

In a city, a horse vehicle can make only about five miles an hour, while a motor-truck makes twelve miles, and carries three times the load.

Some idea of motor-truck possibilities in New York may be gained when it is stated that there are nearly three hundred thousand licensed carrying vehicles there.

The amount of work to be got out of a motor-truck is astonishing.

The average five-ton truck, in a ten-hour day, can make eighty miles, and keep constantly at work.

Across it lay some fishing poles and nets, also some old garden tools, it apparently being used as a catch-all for useless truck about the place for a long time past.

He hoped for some discovery among the truck littering the yard that would suggest a way of getting Big Bob again on the run.

But fate willed that they should be snared without any effort on his part whatever, for just then a porter came by with a truck piled high with luggage, and it and the invalid chair combined to form an impasse from which there was no escaping.

The modern girl has to be equipped for any emergency like a hook and ladder truck.