" Muriel was already helping my love out of her heavy Russian coat, a costly garment lined with sable, and when, after greeting Jack and Olinto, she was comfortably seated, I took some notepaper from the little writing-table by the window and scribbled in pencil the words: "I need not write how delighted I am that you are safethat the Almighty has heard my prayers for you.

So the birch tree is chosen, partly for its grace and beauty, but also because of its bark, for one can scribble on its papery surface; the hazel, because children delight in the catkins with their showers of golden dust, and the nut "hidden in its cap of frills and tucks."

But all bad, careless, and hasty authors, who scribble with the bread actually before their eyes, use this style of writing six times on a page, and rejoice in it.

He scribbled for a minute in his notebook.

And yet you see merchants who go and labour themselves into a great fortune and thence into bankruptcy court; scribblers who keep scribbling at little articles until their temper is a cross to all who come about them, as though Pharaoh should set the Israelites to make a pin instead of a pyramid; and fine young men who work themselves into a decline, and are driven off in a hearse with white plumes upon it.

What signifies power, if we do not exert it? Let my Lord know, that thou hast scribbled to me.

Literary journals should be a dam against the unconscionable scribbling of the age, and the ever-increasing deluge of bad and useless books.

You will not, I think, suspect me of attaching any consequence to my scribblings from vanity; and if I run some personal risk in keeping them, it is because the situation of this country is so singular, and the events which occur almost daily so important, that the remarks of any one who is unlucky enough to be a spectator, may interest, without the advantage of literary talents.

Thousands of names are scribbled over every part of this once humble residence of Peter the Great.

Scandal, the glory of the English nation, Is worn to rags, and scribbled out of fashion.

"After making pert professions," as Johnson said, "he had, for many years, taken no notice of me; but when my Dictionary was coming out, he fell a scribbling in the World about it."

He did his scribbling with a fountain pen, on typewriter paper, and left a broad right-hand margin, just as he had seen Brooks do.

BRUCE LATIMER 145 Jermyn Street, W. Scribbled across the top in pencil were the following words: "Thanks.

I will say nothing of the tenderest parts in your own little volume, at the end of such a slatternly scribble as this, but indeed they cost us some tears.

"First, I must ask if you know how to shoot," he scribbled beneath her signature.

The noon recess again brought the four friends together, and Betty showed a tentative program she had surreptitiously scribbled during a study period.

" "Something like this, for example," said Henry, a few days later, pulling an envelope covered with pencil-scribble from his pocket.

" It was a record of the blowing up of bridges, and the words had been scribbled into a small note-book on the way of retreat.

He was admitted to the bar six years later; but he spent a great deal more of the intervening time in traveling and scribbling than in the study of law.

[90]Cardan finds fault with Frenchmen and Germans, for their scribbling to no purpose, non inquit ab edendo deterreo, modo novum aliquid inveniant, he doth not bar them to write, so that it be some new invention of their own; but we weave the same web still, twist the same rope again and again; or if it be a new invention, 'tis but some bauble or toy which idle fellows write, for as idle fellows to read, and who so cannot invent?

Coleridge is very foolish to scribble about books.