And PUNCHINELLO will be the first to praise him when he lays aside the unnecessary vulgarity with which he has latterly bid for the applause of the gallery.

"There's a gentleman of the Tidewater, Mr. Charles Grey, that I've bidden to the venture.

"That means, in plain words," he suggested, "that you'll give Kleppish a chance to bid against me.

" The Boy drew a tired breath, and sat down without bidding in one of the wooden chairs.

And that evening in Columbus they put me up for sale, with all the Big League clubs bidding on me, like a horse being auctioned off.

He is like a coster conducting a Dutch auction, except that it is himself that he puts up for the bids of admiring visitors.

So when I'm bidden at this stage To start the game anew And keep KAROLYI constantly And carefully in view, I think I'm wholly justified In answering, "Nah Poo!" * *

"I'd like to see any girl in this store turn down a bid with Charley Cox.

Though Liberty shall soon, indignant, raise Red on the hills his beacon's comet blaze; Bid from on high his lonely cannon sound, And on ten thousand hearths his shout rebound; His larum-bell from village-tower to tower Swing on the astounded ear its dull undying roar; 1820.]

Perhaps the Ordinary of Newgate bids as fair for this office as any one.

sure it's me, your own Kathleen, that bids ye!

Still, the one man had increased his bids by fives and the other only by ones.

The gouernour of the house met vs a mile out of the towne, and very curteously bade vs all welcome, and brought vs to the monasterie.

For a whole week we carried on negotiations with him and everything was near final settlement when this Ossep came in and bid over us.

When he was again in the Director General's room, the latter said: "I think I will have you formulate a new bid along the lines you have laid down.