reproachfully cried the stranger in cinder-gray, after taking up the mug a third time and setting it down empty.

The trim chambermaid dropped her best curtsey for his fee, and Gumbo, in the inn-kitchen, where the townsfolk drank their mug of ale by the great fire, bragged of his young master's splendid house in Virginia, and of the immense wealth to which he was heir.

placing the mug on the counter, filled his pipe from a small paper of tobacco and shook his head slowly at his companions.

And while she handed a little silver mug, from which it was intended they should drink while taking their snack, she had noticed that the child raised his head and followed the movement of her hand, in which the silver sparkled beneath the sun-rays.

These two, the little, affable German and the tall, grave Frenchman, stood now behind their counter drawing off mugs of Pilsener as fast as their four hands could move.

" The man smiled obsequiously as he set the foaming mug before him.

" He emptied his mug, and then, accompanied by Mr. Wright, fetched his sea- chest from the boarding-house where he was staying, and took it to the young man's lodgings.

"We don't increase and multiply every day, and I'll fill the mug again."

He was shoving her off with 'is foot when" He broke off and shuddered and, accepting a mug of beer, pending the arrival of some brandy that a sympathizer had ordered, drank it slowly.

"They've got my funny little monkey mug in the movies.

"Pore Sam started as though he 'ad been shot, and, arter getting rid of the beer in 'is mouth, stood there 'olding the mug away from 'im and making such 'orrible faces that they was a'most frightened.

"More coffee?" He pushed his mug forward.

"When I say number one," pursued Mr. Squeers, putting the mug before the children, "the boy on the left hand nearest the window may take a drink; and when I say number two, the boy next him will go in, and so till we come to number five, which is the last boy.

The other man, nothing loth, raised the mug to his lips, and drank on, and on, and ontill a curious blueness overspread the countenance of the shepherd's wife, who had regarded with no little surprise the first stranger's free offer to the second of what did not belong to him to dispense.

Then I told how we had drunk to their health, and how her father had smashed his mug for a fancy.

To this suggestion the steward deigned no reply, and turning to the landlord bade him replenish his mug.

He tossed the mug into Joel's lap.

" "Women," Max said, just like a grown up, holding out his coffee mug.

" The traveller, with a start that upset the cat's nerves, finished his own mug, and then ordered both to be refilled.

Sir Marmaduke desired a mug of buttered ale or of lamb's wool, which Master Mounce soon held ready for him.

" Number one seized the mug ravenously, and had just drunk enough to make him wish for more, when Mr. Squeers gave the signal for number two, who gave up at the same interesting moment to number three; and the process was repeated until the milk and water terminated with number five.

" Mr. Gibbs scowled and, tilting his mug, peered gloomily into the interior.

" Blaise and Denis made answer by taking some fresh slices of bread-and-butter, while Rose drained the mug of wine and water which Ambroise handed her.

And Leopoldine could carry a mug of milk as well as need be, and she gave it him and said, "Here you are," and blushed, for all she was wearing her Sunday clothes and had nothing to be ashamed of, anyway.

Your very good health, little boy," and here he jingled his mug against Martin's, and took a sip of tea.