Pull devil, pull baker.

Presently she saw a baker's at the opposite side of the road to that on which she was walking, and she was crossing, when a huge empty van came lumbering round the corner.

But he also wrote for her brother, and besides, she married a baker.

In came the housemaid, with her cousin the baker.

Sam Softly was bred a sugar-baker; but succeeding to a considerable estate on the death of his elder brother, he retired early from business, married a fortune, and settled in a country-house near Kentish-town, Sam, who formerly was a sportsman, and in his apprenticeship used to frequent Barnet races, keeps a high chaise, with a brace of seasoned geldings.

DUCKS AND DRAKES A duck and a drake, And a halfpenny cake, With a penny to pay the old baker.

We have tried, but in vain, to find out the baker and his wife recommended to us by Lamb as the very lions of green Hastings.

Round the fourteenth, I received a blow on the right eye, which closed it up; in the end, I believe, this was my salvation: for the anger it roused in me was so great that, in this and every one of the three following rounds, I floored the baker.

On went the baker, his head bowed on his breast, the sun shining like tawdry brass, the snow glistening like a slimy, evil thing.

"But he hanged the chief baker.

"Well, your Majesty, this keeps the baker busy day and night baking 'em bread, not to speak of the cakes and pies, and he says he feels he hadn't orter stand it any longer.

"Opposite to my lodging," said he, "lived a baker: he was somewhat of a miser, and lived quite alone.

"Come out into this old cabin and meet our baker," Paddy continued when we went out the rear of the store.

Bread, the supply of which Marie Antoinette, as we have seen, rightly regarded as a matter of the first importance to the tranquillity of the city, continued scarce and dear; and the mob broke open the bakers' shops, and murdered one baker, a man named François, with a ferocity more terrible than they had even shown toward De Launay, or the guards at Versailles.

A wag, who "will be the death of us," says he bought a cake the other evening:"It is thundering weight," observed the baker: "I hope it will not lighten before I get it home," was the equivocal reply.

He ordered the baker to be called, and made him look at it sticking.

No one could make fruit cake like Aunt Amy and if it proved too big for the house oven the baker could bake it in his.

For instance, if the head baker ordered an artisan of the same trade to be imprisoned in the Châtelet, the high provost, who was governor of the prison, released him immediately; and, in retaliation, if the high provost punished a baker, the chief baker warmly espoused his subordinate's cause.

" "Ida?" repeated the baker.

At one time, the captain of an English vessel requested a baker of Gottenburg to bake a large quantity of loaves of raised bread.

With a store of preserves, why shouldn't the bakeshops go on making tarts with heavy crusts of the brown flour, when war had not robbed the bakers of their art?

Then Oreste tells the baker, Pietro, who, naked as Nature made him, has run out from his oven to the open door, for a breath of air.

" Hewitt thanked the baker for his advice, wished him better luck in future, and left.

Thereupon some farmers and their men, who were watching their walnuts close by, ran up with their great poles and long staves, and thrashed the cake-bakers as if they had been green rye.

"You are right," said he mildly, "I did; and a great satisfaction, you know, it was to my mind, for by this means I killed two birds with one stone;" meaning that he had both thumped the baker and murdered him.