Though he was dressed in fustian, and wore a workman's apron, he spoke effectively, and his words went to the hearts of his hearers.

"Do you see anything wrong with that?" The faithful soul threw her apron over her head with a sob.

The mothers took off their kitchen aprons, washed their hands at Linnet's new sink, and gave Morris the key of the front door to hang up in an out-of-the-way corner of the wood shed.

She wore a morning dress of soft pearl grey, over which she had tied an apron of white lawn with a dainty ruffle of embroidery below its hem.

80 Right glad was he when he beheld her: Stick after stick did Goody pull: He stood behind a bush of elder, Till she had filled her apron full.

They may be through sooner than we think, (putting apron and other things together) I wonder where I can find a piece of paper, and string.

"How much would you say a pound, father?" "Can't say till I get 'em in the scales, of course," and, smoothing down his apron, the Gentleman Goose advanced toward Ann in a businesslike fashion.

" She lifted the apron from her hem, her voice hurrying.

She held up her apron as if it contained something precious in the bag she made with it.

Poor Raphael began to feel the cold painfully, and Madelaine perceiving that his hands were benumbed, untied her apron, and rolled them up in it.

He leaped with joy, for he recognized his wife's apron, and supposed it to contain the household valuables.

So saying, he donned the Butcher's apron, and, climbing into the cart, he took the reins in his hand and drove off through the forest to Nottingham Town.

" Polly dropped her apron and began to swallow her sobs, while Jane ran to Martha, who was very proud of her valentine, and very glad to show it even to little Polly Price; and the valentine was a beauty, as Jane had said.

" Clara dropped the kitten with unceremonious haste on the floor, felt of her little pink ear, shook her apron, and the corners of her mouth went down into her dimpled chin.

Mrs. Paine, in her agitation, pleated her muslin apron into a fan.

I did not see her, of course, but I knew instinctively that she was slipping off her apron, moving our most celebrated rocking-chair two inches nearer the door, and whisking a few invisible particles of dust from the centre table.

She snatched off her apron, and ran down with it, and the young man wrapped me in it, and taking me carefully in his arms, walked down the path to the gate.

" "Oh, look who wants to help," cried Billie, finding an apron nevertheless and tying it around his waist so that he looked like a butcher's assistant.

An', sir, with that, she thess gathered up her apron an' mopped her face in it an' give way.

"I was only getting my apron.

" Mrs. Watson sat down, dramatically, and applied her print apron to her eyesan occasion had come, and Mrs. Watson, true to tradition, would make the most of it.

" She opened her apron and showed a coil of rattlesnakes lying very peaceably in its fold.

The miserable creature arose with difficulty, and picking up her apron and turban, which were in different parts of the room, she hobbled out crying bitterly.

She said she wanted an apron.

The woman who lived the nearest to her, geographically, was Mrs. Cowan, and one daythe first summershe saw Mrs. Cowan beating rugs on the line, and as the day was breezy, it seemed as if she waved her apron.