In one of the drawers there were a number of loose newspapers, and other valueless scraps; and Caleb, with a sly grin, asked the auctioneer, if he sold the article with all its contents.

"Two-fifty!" bawled the auctioneer.

"Now here," bellowed the auctioneer, "is a very fine article sech as you don't often see in these days.

" "Twenty thousand one hundred guineas!" chanted the auctioneer.

"440 dollars only offered," continued the coarse and heartless auctioneer; "450, thank you; 460, 460 dollars only offered for this excellent young woman470 only, 470480, 480 dollars only offered490500 dollars offeredgoing for 500 dollarsonce, going for 500 dollars503 dollarsgoing for 503 dollarsgoingonce twicegone for 503 dollars.

"Lot 47," cried the auctioneer, "a padlock and key.

Therefore, I say, let the creditors employ an auctioneer, hang out the red flag, sell, and divide, before that period arrives.

You are not yet aware of how much an auctioneer and two or three hundred jobbers can do and endure in the short space of three hours.

It could not have escaped even an auctioneer.

"That is to guide the auctioneer.

He sat on the steps of the gallery and heard this wonderful man preach a sermon in which he illustrated an auctioneer selling a negro girl at the block.

" Jimsy imitated an auctioneer, raising his voice to a sharp pitch.

Then informing the auctioneer that I was a United States detective, and showing himas well as an inquisitive officermy commission as such, I told him to stop the sale, as the mule was stolen property, and that I had arrested the thief, whose name was Williams.

"Two-pence," repeated the auctioneer, "once.

"I see you," replied the auctioneer, "an' don't take your bid!

On a platform stood a red-faced, burly auctioneer, with a straw hat and a loud voice, who was arguing with some one in the crowd of expectant buyers the impossibility of proceeding with the sale without a clerk to aid him.

An inquisitive look discovered the princess sitting slightly forward and intently watching the auctioneer.