Plutarch informs us that tradesmen wrote in some such manner over their doors, and that auction bills ran thus: "Julius Proculus will this day have an auction of his superfluous goods, to pay his debts.

"It'll buy a postage-stamp, won't it?"she was fairly aggressive now,"an' thar's a envelop what wa'n't put up ter auction in the cupboard an' a paper-bag I kin iron out,ketch me a-gwine ter the neighbors an' a-beggin' fer writin'-paperan' I'll jest set daown an' write a line ter Mis' Halsey.

" "There is a way of finding out a cipher," answered Diggory; "it tells you how to do it in that book that we bought when Mug had his things sold by auction at Chatford.

The owner was killed shortly afterward, and in settling up his estate, two of the swarms were sold at auction for $105 and $110 respectively.

Every five years the censors let the various works by auction to contracting companies, who engaged to carry them out for fixed sums, and make what profit they could out of the business (censoria locatio).

There is an auction on the Common to-day, but its red flag is hard to be discerned amid this blaze of color.

What about an auction, eh?-an auction with two bidders onlyboth millionairesone's a pal and the other isn't.

In this year the White House was sold by auction by its owners, and Airy purchased it on May 24th.

Then, Drysdale's sheep were to be sold by auction after lunch and the committee had hinted that the president was the proper person to buy the flock.

One cause of the anger of the rulers of Boston against this energetic young man was an essay which he wrote and addressed to the Governor of Plymouth, in which he stated his conviction that 'the King of England had no right whatever to give away these lands on which they had settled; but that they belonged exclusively to the natives, and must be bought in by auction from them.'

This occurrence put me on my guard, and made me very wary of buying articles at such auctions during my stay in New York, although the apparent beauty and cheapness of many of the articles I saw offered, especially of French manufacture, were sufficient to decoy the most wary, and I did not wonder at people being victimized at such places.

The business was too good to be sacrificed, and the business was all his father had left behind him, with the exception of a houseful of handsome furniture, two or three carriages, and a couple of pairs of horses, which were sold by auction within a few weeks of the funeral.

Some are seen at every auction without intention to purchase; others appear punctually at the Exchange, though they are known there only by their faces: some are always making parties to visit collections for which they have no taste; and some neglect every pleasure and every duty to hear questions, in which they have no interest, debated in parliament.