Hoke Smith, another distinguished relative, adorned the mantel.

A clock stopped not the mantel's; Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing That just now dangled still.

There, laid out on the floor, were all the parts of a gasolene lamp, together with a pipe-wrench, a hammer, a little old-fashioned vise, a bar of iron, and an envelop containing the mantels and the more delicate parts of the lamp.

The fireplace held masses of goldenrod, and blue jars holding wild asters crowned the mantel, the tables, the piano, and the wide window sills.

Den, if dey didn' tear dat mantel down an' git his money, I's a son-of-a-gun!

"Take the wire in your left hand, Peter,that's right,now hold the tip a little closer to the lightno, place the mantels on the right sidethat's the way I do it.

Miss Eunice began to open her eyes, and she released the mantel.

"It struck the mantel just after you left; then the ceiling, three times, very loud; then the mantel again,don't you hear?

Tragedy seemed to be waiting to cast its mantel about him from behind.