No one ever solved the great problem as to what services were rendered by Barker to his master, whose wig was "as impenetrable by a comb as a quickset hedge," and whose clothes were never touched by the brush.

The barker at the door of the side show to the circus makes more noise than the eight-headed boy that makes the mare go.

"And I'm telling you that if it was up to me to make an arrest to-day I'd nab Mr. Gerald Lawrenceand haul in William Barker for good measure.

Sir Arthur Pinero employs this device with good effect in Iris; so does Mr. Granville Barker in Waste, and Mr. Galsworthy in The Silver Box.

This was in November, 1829, and in the following month Dr. J.B. Wilson, who came to the Sound with Captain Barker on the abandonment of Raffles Bay, made an excursion from the Sound and discovered and named the Denmark River.

But after taking only six bottles she had thanked Mrs. Barker with tears in her eyes.

" Cartwright brought Barker into the room and Leverage dismissed the plainclothesman.

" "Of course," I here remarked, "you don't care to mention anything about the money you squeezed out of Timothy Barker by means of your knowledge that he had been a receiver of stolen goods, and I suppose the Boilene man gave you something to get the percentage brought down from ten per cent.

Among the playwrights of to-day, I should call Mr. Granville Barker above all things a psychologist.

While every day Eric was getting on better in form, and winning himself a very good position with the other boys, who liked his frankness, his mirth, his spirit, and cleverness, he felt this feud with Barker like a dark background to all his enjoyment.

Our little steamer was commanded by Lieutenant Barker, now Admiral Barker of the New York Navy Yard.