A man may write about "New America," or "Spiritual Wives," or any such light and airy subject, without possessing much knowledge, or indulging in much thought, but he can't play such tricks upon Agriculture.

I must know tricks.

"I went to mine, not to learn Indian tricks.

"Yes, and you needn't look at me as if I were some sort of a bug you hadn't ever seen before and didn't approve of, because I've seen you try that high-and-mighty trick too often for it to work with me.

What did you do to him?" I told pa I had only been teaching the monk manly tricks, and pa said: "Well, you have overdone it."

I am glad that, as long as I had to be defeated some day, it was you who turned the trick.

Who was the person who glided night after night into Lady Studley's room, who knew the trick of the secret spring in the wall, who entered the old wardrobe, and performed this ghastly, this appalling trick on Sir Henry Studley?

The next morning Lady Fulbank discovers the trick which has been played upon her and rates both her husband and lover soundly.

Well, after doing a turn around the big ring, the trainer steered the elephants into the middle ring, and the great audience leaned forward to catch every trick the elephants did.

Then he would pick 'em up again, and once more set a-trying: The dice but served him the same trick: away they went a-flying.

Would you risk your life to save him?" The old man made no reply until I had repeated the question, and then he said, slowly: "If there was any show of bein' able to work the trick, you could count on me to the end; but if he has fallen into their clutches, unless some wonderfully big turn of affairs comes in our path, we would be only throwin' away the lives of both without chance of helpin' him.

This pleasure is very common in children at this stage, but too often it comes to them merely through being shown the "trick" of carrying tens.

He answers all men's expectations to his power, save in the reckoning; and hath gotten the trick of greatness, to lay all mislikes upon his servants.

Galen had the wrinkled, smiling, shrewd face of an old philosopher who understood the trick of making himself socially prominent in order to pursue his calling unimpeded by the bitter jealousies of rivals.

The Germans have recently repeated the same trick on a larger scale against the French, as is shown by the copy of an order issued by the French officials.

"Couldn't we find a trick for slipping ashore after lights out?" eagerly queried Dickey, who was not noted as a "greaser.

I might have known that Jack would never have allowed any simple incidental happening such as his death to cause his missing a possible trick.

It was trumped; and when we had won the trick there was not a soldier in General Allenby's Army nor a civilian in the Holy City who had not a profound belief in the coming downfall of the Turkish Empire.

Croker-so that 'the sentence appears to run, "except Dr. Johnson, you, and I."' Mr. Croker, with his usual suspiciousness, suspects 'an uncandid trick.'

He saw the trick now.

Sure, thy father Is practising some trick, some foul deception, To urge thee on to an untimely death, To rid himself of some unnatural fear, He stoops to an unnatural, treacherous act, For I have ever been the firm support Of crown and throne, and perfectly he knows No mortal ever conquered me in battle, None ever from my sword escaped his life.

Thus among all the Folly's here abounding, None took like the new Ape-trick of Dumfounding.

The playwright may absolutely count on having to make such an appeal; but he must remember at the same time that he can by no means count on keeping any individual effect, more especially any notable trick or device, a secret from the generality of his audience.

"Now by sweet Cupid his tender bow!" panted Sir Jocelyn"by the cestus of lovely Venusaye, by the ox-eyed Juno, I swear 'twas featly done, Sir Smith!" Quoth Beltane, taking up the fallen sword: "'Tis a trick I learned of that great and glorious knight, Sir Benedict of Bourne.

But if such be the aim of the Writer, it is the Critic's business to detect and defeat the imposture; to warn the public against the purchase of shop-worn goods and tinsel wares; to protect the fair trader, by exposing the tricks of needy Quacks and Mountebanks; and to chastise that forward and noisy importunity with which they present themselves to the public notice.