"You look so much like an author, Mr. BUMSTEAD, in having no overcoat, wearing your paper collar upside down, and carrying a pen behind your ear," Father DEAN is saying, "that I can almost fancy you are about to write a book about us.

"Get out of the way before I step on you, little speck of dust," Laura cried haughtily to Ferd, who turned up his collar and slunk along toward the house as though his humiliation were more than he could bear, amid shouts of laughter from the merry crowd that followed him.

Rogers loosened his collar with a convulsive movement.

" "But I don't object to that," said J.S. "Well, I won't," said ANGELINA, "that's all!" J.S. rubbed the fur on his hat the wrong way, pulled up his shirt collar, looked mournfully at the idol of his heart, and departed.

MONTGOMERY PENDRAGON, in his room in Gospeler's Gulch, reads Southern tragedies in an old copy of the New Orleans Picayune, until two o'clock, when he hastily tears up all his soiled paper collars, packs a few things into a travelling satchel, and, with the latter slung over his shoulder, and a Kehoe's Indian club in his right hand, is met in the hall by his tutor, the Gospeler.

Still, he put on a bold face while Angeline fastened his refractory collar and tied his cravat.

As soon as it came clear of the edge, he drew it towards him, lowered it to the ground, took off its rope collar, and rolled it out of the doorway.

When Wampus had quite finished his work he arose, adjusted his disarranged collar and tie and proceeded to crank the engines.

" He held out the collar and tie; and approving notice was taken of the fact that he was soaking wet from the top of his head to the middle button of his waistcoat.

Esther wriggled out of the shawl, smoothed her hair, arranged her ruffled collar.

" Esther sat up and straightened her collar.

Getting this, I put it on, and, finding a hat there too, I took that also; and when I had pulled it over my forehead and drawn up the collar of the coat, I was quite unrecognisable.

I did my best to twist around, to unbutton the collar, but in vain.

They shut the gate and petted Tige, and bought him a collar with a silver plate.

Just such a trinketa broochhad pinned the collar of her close habit three days before, when she and M. Raoul had stood together discussing the panel.

I would slip the collar for fear of the halter; but here comes my runner, and if he run for me, his race dies, he is as sure as dead as if a Parliament of devils had decreed it.

As it passed them, so close that they instinctively drew back, Stafford saw that it was an old man in a dressing-gown; his head was bare, his hair touched the collar of the gown.

Ha! ha!" said he, grasping my collar.

You needn't even go to the market; they cut the prices down worse than the devil knows what; but if you sell a horse-collar, you have to throw in trimmings and earnest money, and treat the fellows, and stand all sorts of losses through wrong weights.

Reckon your mother would let me?" "I've got two clean collars," announced the other boy, proudly generous.

As she tried to recall it she felt Van Degen raising the fur collar about her chin.

As she fitted the collar of an effete civilization on my nineteenth century neck, I put the same question I had given to Dennis.

To hide it as far as possible he buttoned his overcoat collar about his neck.

Flavius told him how the eye was lost, and mentioned the increased pay that he had on account of its loss, and showed the collar and other military decorations that had been given him.

And with a tender strength holding the sobbing girl Katie unfastened her collar and began taking off her dress.