For the former, I live on scraps obtained in charity from an old friend, whose stationery is a permanent perquisite; for folding, I shall do it neatly when I learn to tie my neckcloths.

He was keeping as free from the usual excesses as he was able, and as he marked companions around him falling victims to the power of drink, he himself dropped off under the table among the slain, as a measure of precaution; and lying there, his attention was called to a small pair of hands working at his throat; on asking what it was, a voice replied, "Sir, I'm the lad that's to lowse the neckcloths."

Banks gave in return for his share his large laced silk neckcloth and a linen handkerchief.

He left his neckcloth half undone, and stepped toward me, alertly courteous.

We raised him, loosened his neckcloth "Fainted!" said the ladies "Drunk!" said the gentlemen He was dead!

And Tregarva pulled off his neckcloth, and shook his huge limbs, as if to feel that they were all in their places, in a way that augured ill for the man who came across him.

He said, while he was putting on his neckcloth, in the morning, he had been struck with the meagre and ghastly appearance he presented in the glass; but the sweet serenity of his soul compelled him to exclaim, 'Welcome old man!

I took half an hour in tying and retying my neckcloth en mode.

!" said Mr. Dombey, settling his neckcloth.

In five minutes Mr. Grey came down "dressed,"by the use of which word was implied the fact that he had shaken his neckcloth, washed his hands and face, and put on his slippers.

" "And is he still abed?" asked Kohlhaas, taking off his neckcloth.

I had tried a 'rose-knot,' a 'witch-knot,' a 'chaise-driver's knot,' and a 'running-knot,' wi' every kind o' knot that fingers could twist the neckcloth into, but the confounded starch made every ane look waur than anither.

For the former, I live on scraps obtained in charity from an old friend whose stationary is a permanent perquisite; for folding, I shall do it neatly when I learn to tye my neckcloths.

" Slowly the thin line of his lips relaxed, and he raised his hands to adjust his neckcloth.

He wears no neckcloth, and cuts his hair in imitation of the Prints of Petrarch.

Previous to the Egyptian frigate firing into us, the men, not engaged in furling the sails, had stripped themselves to their duck-frocks, and were binding their black-silk neckcloths round their heads and waists, and some upon their left knees.