However, the sandy wig and red mustache which that gentleman worein his character as a Boxing Day excursionistwere still salient features even to his eyes.

Mr. Bennettwhom, by the way, his big friend Neddy called "Mike," and not "Percy," as might have been expectedassumed his sandy wig and red mustache as soon as they were well started; Neddy scorned disguise for the moment, but he had a mask in his pocket.

At this moment the door was opened, and a servant in bright livery, with powdered wig, silk stockings, and a countenance which might have been of wood, brought in a letter on a silver tray.

" "Do you see the lady," said Aristabulus, "that is just coming out on the lawn, in front of the 'Wig-wam?'" for that was the name John Effingham had seen fit to give the altered and amended abode.

The giant fainted from fright, 'cause he always was a coward; the bearded woman threw her arms around a reporter, and scratched his face with her whiskers, while the Circassian girl got her white wig caught In the branch of a tree and lost it, and she was as bald as an ostrich egg.

"Why, you know!she was"said the wig-maker at the corner to Kristian Koppig"I'll tell you.

She was the best yellow-fever nurse in a thousand yards round; but that is not what the wig-maker said.

" Then, all of a sudden, Wig Weigand shouted, "Look at that, will you? Look!" We could just see Hunt Ward reach out of the skiff for Skinny, when all of a sudden he disappeared and came up about twenty feet from the skiff.

He bit his fingers with anxiety, and threw his wig into the fire.

Immediately behind him, came the beadle in vestments and a long flaxen wig ill-combed, put on all awry, making room with his staff and hitting the people if they would not leave off praying and get out of the way.

Let the frisky woman appear to have her way,you will win in the end!" The wig and best suit were brushed anew, water was brought into requisition for the visible portions of his person, and, with his most engaging expression arranged upon his parchment face, he presented himself before the widow.

" The lawyer settled his wig in a foaming rage.

Dost not see him, Jack?I do popping up and down, his wig and hat floating by him; and paddling, pawing, and dashing, like a frighted mongrelI am afraid he never ventured to learn to swim.

The skiff shall be ready to save him, while the vessel keeps its course: he shall be set on shore with the loss of wig and hat only, and of half his little wits, at the place where he embarked, or any where else.

Her maid at once came forward and took off her wig, and her own beautiful brown hair appeared, pressed and matted close to her head in a rather disorderly coil.

At this stage of the operation the Primadonna was neither Cordova nor Margaret Donne; there was something terrifying about the exaggeratedly painted mask when the wig was gone and her natural hair was drawn tightly back.

That fine, high forehead, the curving lips, the nose, with its clear-cut nostrils,not even the disfiguring woolly wig, stiff collar, and blackened face and hands could disguise them to her.

Ww Ww Xx Xx W is for Wagon, for Wig, and for Wing, For Whale, and for Wine, and for Wrist, X is for Xerxes, a famous old king, But for words not a very long list.

I upheld a cautionary index, and he was still as a mouse, but like a mouse he proceeded to investigate; he opened a bureau-drawer the least way, and pushing his arm in where my laces were wont to dwell, he drew out, with exultant delight, the wig before mentioned.

I said, "Hush!"whereupon he lifted up the wig and deposited it upon the top of his tangled circlets of hair before I could stay him.

Jeffy looked very repentant, said in low, deprecatory tones, "I'm sorry," and, depositing the wig in the drawer, hastened to escape, which I know he would not have done but for the disabled condition of the invalid, who could only look his wrath.

That block, sir, has been very much admiredextremely like the Wenus de Medicinecapital noseand as for the wig department, catch me for that, sir.

And now I could see that the flaxen hair was a wig; that the beard had a decidedly artificial look, and that the eyes that beamed through the spectacles were remarkably like the eyes of our factotum.

" "I can see that he has a wig on, quite plainly," said I.

A wig, and especially a beard or moustache, must be joined up at the edges with hair actually stuck on the skin with transparent cement and carefully trimmed with scissors.