"Maybe there was a showdownand the wind-up of it is that Nick comes home meek as a six-year-old broke down in front.

The wind-up came when the lions were seated on benches, and the elephant was between them, and the tigers and leopards made a pyramid, and the monkey was clawing around pa's legs.

and I half believe they were sorry; but that was only a sort of a winding-up, I wouldn't stay there another day.

" It was at the close of the act and the wind-up of the circus for the afternoon that Joe told Ham to put away some of the apparatus until evening.

Or if I had gone home, and left the winding-up of these affairs in the hands of others?...

It is a curious wind-up of this most eventful mission, that as I am starting from China, I should meet an Anglo-French force returning from a pacific invasion into the very heart of the province of Kwan-tung!the pépinière of the Canton Braves, of whom we have heard so much.

I think that this wind-up at Pekin was very promising.

This banquet was given each year as a wind-up to the camp activities, with the winner of the Buffalo Robe in the place of honor at the head of the table.

The one who is fixed for whatever they start Is rarely expected to prove it; They pass him along for the next shot in sight Where they take a full wind-up and groove it; For who wants to pick on a bulldog or such Where a quivering poodle is handy, When he knows he can win with a kick or a brick With no further trouble to bandy?

He began to see large wind-up keys protruding from the backs of the guests.

I am also glad to be able to say that our gallant Cornet Murray, in the winding-up of this business, was promoted by the Council to a captaincy of cavalry, and put in command of Christiana Fort and its neighborhood, to keep that formidable Quaker, William Penn, at a respectful distance.

"Well!" chuckled Corson, not unkindly, "I thought it would be more Perris than Arizona in the wind-up!"

I believe it is very generally considered that the wind-up of a day's sport is by no means the least enjoyable portion of the twenty-four hours, when it comes in the shape of good fellowship and good cheer; and upon the present occasion we had both alike undeniable of their kind.

I had been fighting the thing over from start to finish and back again ever since you blessed me out a week ago last Monday, and at the wind-up this afternoon I took the papers out of the bank vault, having it in mind to go and give his Excellency a bad quarter of an hour.

She was a child, personally unknown to me, who wrote to "Lewis Carroll" a sweet letter about the book, in which she said, "I'm so glad it hasn't got a regular wind-up, as it shows there is more to come!"

In the statue, she stands musing, with her head drooping forward, as if the weight of the breastplate oppressed her woman's heart; the melancholy soul which shines through the marble seems to forebode the fearful winding-up of her eventful destiny.

"Section-Commander , who has had charge of the Special Constabulary since their inception, has been presented by the members with a Sheraton clock at a wind-up dinner.

One of these, a beautiful heifer of fourteen months, was purchased at the winding-up sale, for 225 guineas.

If you can figure it out so it doesn't mean a big bill, it may do very well as a wind-up to this out-door business.

"'That's what I am, young man,' says I. 'If I had ten years off my shoulders, and a little of the glow off my hair, I'd give you a run for your alley that would leave you breathless at the wind-up.'

So he starts in to tell me that 'stock didn't necessarily mean beef critters,' and a lot more things, whilst old man Ferguson, who was putting the deal through, stood listening and chewing his teeth, thinking I was going to give our friend the frolicsome hee-hee at the wind-up.

It's just the wind-up, where they have to give an account, you know, and what they'll have to show for it, and the thing that really amounts, after all.

II SEIGERMAN'S PER CENT Towards the wind-up of the Cherokee Strip Cattle Association it became hard to ride a chuck-line in winter.

It would be useless minutely to recapitulate, the final winding-up of this eventful drama.

Everything is reduced to such perfect system in its operations, that the necessity for individual opinion is almost superseded, and even private consciences are laid upon the shelf,just as people lay by an antiquated timepiece that no winding-up or shaking can persuade into marking the hours,for have they not the clock on the Government railroad station opposite, which they can at any time consult by stepping to the window?