By the way, I'm sure you know everything, Mrs Ottley, tell me, did people ever wear only one boot at a time, do you think, or how did this expression originate?'

SLUKER took off his boots and hunted for MIDDLERIB in his stocking feet.

The riders of the horses have to come out in rubber hunting boots and when they get on the horses we have to pull their boots off and hold them until the act is over, then the riders sit on the horses and pull the boots on and get down in the mud of the ring and bow to the audience.

Much delicacy of treatment is required in cleaning ladies' boots, so as to make the leather look well-polished, and the upper part retain a fresh appearance, with the lining free from hand-marks, which are very offensive to a lady of refined tastes.

Pete began to remove his boots.

The puff-balls of the lycoperdon form the devil's snuff-box, and in Ireland the nettle is his apron, and the convolvulus his garter; while at Iserlohn, in Germany, "the mothers, to deter their children eating the mulberries, sing to them that the devil requires them for the purpose of blacking his boots."

For the wise Don would let us take nought that might betray our sojourn in Spain, making us even change our boots for wooden sandals, he himself being arrayed

"I'll bet my boots," says Mac, "it's an Elephas primigenius; and if I'm right, it's 'a find,' young man.

She got the boots off and felt his feet; she stooped over them until for an instant she laid her cheek against a bare foot.

ON WRITING AN ARTICLE I was putting on my boots just now in what the novelists call "a brown study."

This money I got by cleaning gentlemen's shoes and drawing boots, by catching musk-rats and minks, raising potatoes and carrots, &c. and by fishing in the night, and at odd spells.

Her feet were bare, for she had kicked off her funny high-heeled city boots the minute she had reached the forest.

She saw how he walked swiftly, his big boots crunching through the gravel down by the creek bed, splashing through the water, carrying him up the timbered slope toward the horses.

I crawled out, prepared to surrender, give up the plunder, and lick the boots of any man who'd slip me a cup of water.

And when to-morrow had come and gone, and in the dying light they drove away, and Miss Dallas threw old Grandmother Bird's little satin boot after the carriage, the last we saw of her was that her hand was clasped in his, and that her eyes were shining.

As he began unlacing her boots a curiously bitter thought came to him.

One thing was certain; they did not announce to each other their business, but looked at their watches and tapped their boots, and knitted their brows as if each one of them had come on very particular business, which had nothing to do with the affairs of the general crowd.

" Lowrie cut the boot away dexterously and turned out the foot.

They had to endure a fearful journey, during which they ate their very boots to preserve life.

There never was such a cup-board,no sir,there never was a cup-board so well calculated to hold a pair o' jack boots, not to mention spurs, highlows, burnishers, shoulder-chains, polishing brushes, anda boot-jack, as that same small corner cup-board.

For whom, for what should he dress and polish his boots at such a quiet place as Caen?

You may try doing it while sitting sidewise in a chair, if it be difficult for you to poise yourself on one foot, but a girl who cannot stand thus for some time, long enough to lace her riding boot, for instance, is much too weak for her own good.

He felt insanely inclined to pick up her little boots, one after the other, and go down on his knees and kiss them; her hat was a flopsy turban, from under the brim of which the most adorable of golden-brown curls half escaped to throw kiss-shadows on her rosy cheeks.

We left them a few tracts, and they kindly gave us a few little boots of theirs.

The red-coat spoke casually, slapping his boot with a small riding-switch.