It is carpeted with cheap date-leaf mats and a faded polychrome "dhurri"; dirty white cushions are propped against the wall below the windows; a few square desk-like boxes lie in front of the cushions; and in a semi-recumbent attitude around the room are some 20 or 30 menBombay and Gujarat Mahomedans, men from Hindustan and one or two Daudi Bohras, the regular customers of the "Kasumba" saloon.

He can hardly have expected to find a customer in the crowd.

Have a very small leg or shoulder; change it upon a customer for one a little larger, and that upon another for one better still, till by the dinner hour you have a heavy, excellent joint in lieu of your original small one.

He had to start out very early in the morning, in order to supply his customers with milk for breakfast.

" I looked around, and it struck me that the trade of the place mainly consisted in chops and steaks for chance customers at mid-day, and tea and cake for those swarms of women who each afternoon buzz around that long line of windows of the "world's provider."

The fruit was fragrant, tempting, bright, Refreshing to the smell and sight; Not of that puny size which calls Poor customers to common stalls, But large and massy, full of juice, As any Lima can produce.

"Of course, this cut foot will make me travel slow for a while, and I can't get to all my customers on time.

He always impressed his customers by the statement that he had slept in every room in the house in order to understand personally its qualities and defects; and he could and did in fact talk to each boarder about his room with the intimate geographical knowledge of a native.

He charges his customer from two to four pice for this delightful mixture which has a flavour of hot-water and iron-rust rather than of tea.

Considered merely as a social gathering it would be memorable enough, for I never before or since sat at meat with ten such queer customers as my hosts of that evening.

He is far more interested in chatting with his customers about fish than making money selling them.

In and out among the crowd ran tipsters, touts for gambling dens and sellers of charms; most of them found ready customers among the slaves, who had nothing to do but wait, and stare, and yawn until their masters came out from the baths.

"In a very short time he had more customers than both Brown and Gadsbybut the landlord was not to be found although diligent search was made all through the house.

"Why," said the boy, "I had a long jump to make from one town to another, and, as there weren't any customers between, I rode in the train.

Behind the desk Bob West sat upon his high stool, gravely regarding his unusual customers over the rims of his spectacles.

"How often have I told you not to bother me with such questions!" Miss Jennings handed the sample to the customer without the slightest trace of emotion.

There is also a certain air of familiarity or friendliness: not, of course, approaching the camaraderie of the dealer in motor cars, who leans against the wall with his hands in his pockets and talks to customers through a cigarette; but something much more human than the attitude of a female clerk in a post-office.

So he rattles on with amazing fluency in French, German and Italian, and this, with his black beard and moustache and his polite, graceful manner, keeps a crowd of customers around him, so that the wonderful blacking goes off as fast as he can supply it.

But the young naturalist once stood face to face with this ugly customer under very different circumstances.

I have not advertised that I was going to handle the goods, yet everybody knows it and one customer after another comes into my store.

It was the business of his life to beguile his master's customers into over-eating themselves, and to set his face against chops and steaks; but he felt that this particular customer was proof against his blandishments.