Annie came and asked young master cobbler what time it was; and Franky pretended to hit her on the head with a last, and said it had "just struck one."

"I'd change my cobbler if I were you," she said.

In the winter it is often called a sling or a punch; in the summer it is denominated a cobbler or a jew-lip.

I had a mighty passion come over me to be the captain of one,to glide back and forward upon a sea never roughened by storms,to float where I could not sink,to navigate where there is no shipwreck,to lie languidly on the deck and govern the huge craft by a word or the movement of a finger: there was something of railroad intoxication in the fancy, but who has not often envied a cobbler in his stall?

"To Glasgow, and to-morrow!" exclaimed the astounded cobbler.

The stores, workshops and other apartments are generally exceedingly small, and the proverbial economy of the Chinaman is proved by the fact that every square foot of floor space and ground is put to some practical use, and one finds cobblers, barbers, fortune-tellers and a multitude of small tradesmen carrying on a business in a jog, or niche in the wall, not as large as an ordinary bootblack's stand.

It quite heartened the cobbler.

If slaves were to follow such callings at all, and if other slaves were to utilize their talents in keeping cobbler and blacksmith shops and the like for public patronage, they must be vested with fairly full control of their own activities.

" It seemed as though Saint Dunstan was like to answer his prayer, for along the road came plodding a certain cobbler, one Quince, of Derby, who had been to take a pair of shoes to a farmer nigh Kirk Langly, and was now coming back home again, with a fair boiled capon in his pouch and a stout pottle of beer by his side, which same the farmer had given him for joy of such a stout pair of shoon.

The river had again opened into deep reaches of water, and contained abundance of fish resembling cobblers, weighing four and five pounds each.

Fling another shot at that carriage, you sneaking pigskin cobbler, and by the Lord I'll send my rapier through you!" Some of the mob cried, "Huzzah, my Lord!"

If my reader has been inveigled into reading the foregoing details, and has got bored thereby, a gallon of Croton water is an admirable antidote; but, as that may not be available, I would suggest a cobbler, and another page or two; the latter upon the principle adopted by indiscreet drinkers, of "taking a hair of the dog that bit them.

"The little watchmaker, or watch cobbler, in the old curiosity shop.