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.

I narrowly escaped a terrible wigging.

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.

" "You'll get a wigging.

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

"I 'ad no more idea what I was giving the child, my lady, than any one could 'ave...." Her ladyship turned her mind in more hopeful directions, wigging Caddles of course tremendously by the way.

Are reds still a favorite?" Stillman would throw back an equally cryptic answer, thinking as he did so: "What a wigging I must be getting over the teacups!

"Come," thought John as he paused, "they deserve a 'wigging,' but I don't want to make a 'Star-chamber matter' of this.

" So far from being irritated or sulky at the wigging that John was bestowing on him, Valentine was decidedly the better for it.

Frederick still managed to keep his wrath within bounds: he collected all the copies of the edition and had them privately destroyed; he gave a furious wigging to Voltaire; and he flattered himself that he had heard the last of the business.