three clews, one of the finest silk, another of stout packthread, and another of whip-cord; finally, a stout coil of rope.

Then I put the whip on; told him a few of the things I know, and let him imagine a lot more; but it was no good.

Compared with his chastisement the hangman's whip is but a proverb, and the pillory a post of honour.

I have long made it a rule to exclude from my visiting-list, or at least not to let up stairs, ladies who pay their morning calls with a retinue of children: but the thing is not always possible; and one urchin with his whip will destroy more in half an hour, than the worth of a month's average domestic expenditure.

She hastened to shut the door upon her husband, then paused, listening intently, as Mr. Fielding's riding-whip rapped smartly on the door.

He began to frown and to pull restlessly at the lash of his riding-whip.

The squire suddenly lashed with his whip at the grass in front of him, causing Columbus to jump violently and turn a resentful eye upon him.

" He spoke with bitter vehemence, beating restlessly against his heel with his whip.

He turned to the table and took up his riding whip.

The miserable, bare-boned horses were fastened with rope-traces, and the vetturino having taken the rope-lines in his hand, gave a flourish with his whip; one old horse tumbled nearly to the ground, but he jerked him up again and we rattled off.

Whipping a Slave "I heard my father say his old master give him two licks with a whip once.

Shall I whip off their heads, father?

He sat up with an idea that he had dropped into a nightmare, gave his horse the slightest touch of the whip, spoke to it and peered again over the hedge.

Ahead, and drawing near in silhouette against the rising moon, was the outline of the little hamlet of Hankey, comforting, though it showed never a light, and he cracked his whip and spoke again, and then in a flash the rats were at him!

The little lane woke into tumult at the report of the whip and the doctor's shout.

The black figure of the doctor with its whirling whip danced out against the flame.

Then the doctor had grasped the opportunity, that momentary respite the flare afforded, and was out of the brickmaker's sight below battering the door with the butt of his whip....

and he pointed with his whip, "is the road of Piedigrotta.

S. Maria di Piedigrotta enabled Charles III to put the Austrians to flight in Velletri.... Aooo!" He moved his whip like a fishing rod over the upright plume, increasing the steed's pace with a professional howl....

With noble magnanimity, however, the driver still wished to instruct his indifferent clients, showing them with the point of his whip the beauty and wonders of his repertoire.

Some say the name was suggested by the fact that when not otherwise employed, they are constantly cracking the lice which swarm in their never-combed hair; others ascribe it to the frequent cracking of their rifles and long whip-lashes as they pursue their game or drive their cattle.

The Superior Being was so delighted that he could only express his emotions by giving his leaders several extra slashes with his whip, and by putting on a speed that threatened to upset the coach.

Jim brought his whip down smartly on a lazy wheel-horse, crying out: "Puck-a-chee!

" "It was my mentioning the name of Saint-Castin of Pentegoet that made her whip her head under the blanket.

"Jenieve Lalotte," spoke the neighbor, "before you finish whipping your mother you had better run and whip the boys.