"Whack!" There came an indignant grunt, followed by a flabby groan and a straining and squeaking of the jerry-built staircase as Kasheed Hassoun vigorously applied a lath to the horny backsides of Eset el Gazzar.

He lay in his unplastered room that night, and counted the laths in the moonlight, and built golden ladders out of them by which to climb up to the heaven of his desires.

To the upper covering of the musculus and the upper beams, they fastened laths, four fingers square, to support the tiles which were to cover the musculus.

It is equally easy to make an oblong opening in a large bamboo in which to fit the laths of a stand.

Turn her, thou, upon the landing!" "Whack!" responded the lath in the hand of Kasheed Hassoun.

These had once been plastered and papered, but the wall-paper had all faded into dull, neutral tints and in one of the rooms a big patch of plaster had fallen away from the ceiling, showing the bare lath.

By pulling the string he could spring the lath, and then let it snap back to its place.

He was a tubnow 'tis a lath.