Reaching Saint Louis, the canny McDougall looked him over and thought him worth trying out; so over he went to the stock department.

There were a few white birches mixed with the poplars, so delicately formed and dainty in their slender branches and lacy leaves, they looked like nice little girls with flowing hair, coming down to bathe in the blue lake, timidly trying out the water with their white feet.

Mr Borges in his reply offered practical solutions which he himself had tried out successfully.

The wolfish dogs of the village were trying out the mettle of the four strangers.

While the slaughter, and skinning, and curing, and trying out were all in active operation, our young man paid some attention to certain minor arrangements, which had a direct bearing on the comforts of his people, as well as the getting in of cargo.

There are of course certain concrete things which might help, as for instance the further extension and honest trying out of the "Kansas plan" for regulating industrial relations; the forming of "consumers leagues," and all possible support and furtherance of coöperative efforts of every sort.

At least, this result is pretty sure in houses, and is worth trying out of doors.

She and Jarvis would write the play together, together they would go through all the exciting stages of rehearsal and trying out, together they would make their bow before the curtain and their first-night's speech.

I wanted to tell you so long ago, when we first knew, but she begged me not to until after the play was tried out.

" She had read in the paper that morning that the chorus was to be "tried out" for a new musical comedy.

" "Marchand composed it for the express purpose of trying out voices," Stella said.

For instance the work done in trying out small coöperative experiments like that of Brook Farm has taught the successors of the first community builders much that could only be learned by practical experience, and not the least important of those lessons has been how not to do it.

There were the work rooms of the Indians, where blankets and cloth were woven; great vats for trying out tallow and curing hides, and also huge storehouses for grain and other foodstuffs, all built and cared for by the Indians.

They got the creature stripped of its jacket of fat that very night, and next morning the Martha appeared with a set of kettles, in which the blubber was tried out.

But Whaling Bight was the great place of resort of the Kannakas, and there were no less than forty of those men there at that moment, engaged in trying out oil, or in fitting craft for the fisheries.

The cynical journeyman printer of the moment, on a day when Dave tried out the new machine, had stood by and said she might set type

For she was trying out something more than Flint's temper, something greater than a mechanical adjustment of human relationshipsshe was trying out herself.

For she was trying out something more than Flint's temper, something greater than a mechanical adjustment of human relationshipsshe was trying out herself.

The best woman in the world will begin trying out a man before she's been married to him twenty-four hours; and unless he can smile over the top of a four-flush and raise the ante, she's going to rake in the breeches and keep them.

Early in the morning a small field in the rear of Mr. Blake's house was well filled with boys of all ages and sizes, watching the contestants in the model contest trying out their craft.

With this climax of labor legislation our review may properly end, but the reader will not fail to note the advantage that may be derived from experience of these extraordinary statutes as they are tried out in the different States and Territories.

I remember we killed a very fat bear and tried out the grease, and with this grease and some flour and dried apples Mrs. Erkson made some pretty good pies which the miners were glad to get at a dollar and even two dollars apiece.

Every so often a piece of furniture would disappear and a better one take its place, to be studied and admired and tried out again and again.

" "If it's a whaler trying out oil," said Robinson, "we'll find her there in the morning.

"My wife is trying out a new comedy line," the man observed unemotionally.