The wonder is that you are here; I have seen the queer in queer places, But never before a heaven-fed Naiad of the Carnival-Tank!

" "I'll try, ma'am," said Andy, looking a little queer at this allusion to the great Edmund Burke.

There the antic sate Mocking our state his queer visnomyhis bewildering costumeall the strange things which he had raked togetherhis serpentine rod, swagging about in his pocketCleopatra's tear, and the rest of his relicsO'Keefe's wild farce, and his wilder commentarytill the passion of laughter, like grief in excess, relieved itself by its own weight, inviting the sleep which in the first instance it had driven away.

It gave him a queer creeping fright.

The room where the Brenner family lived its queer, taciturn life was tapestried in gold, the glowing tapestry of swarms of outspread yellow butterflies sweeping in gilded tides from the rough floors to the black rafters overhead.

But there's something about thischanging things into other thingsputting things together and making queer new thingsthis DICK:

His pleasure, however, was to wander about upon the hills, talking to half- mad and visionary peasants, or to persuade queer and conscience- stricken persons to deliver up the keeping of their troubles into his care.

It revived memories of the visit of Mr. Sanderson that had been sinking into oblivion; she recalled his queer and odious way of talking, and many things she hoped forgotten drew their heads up from that subconscious region to which all forgetting is impossible.

They were all rich men, and generous, and, what was to Steve of far more worth than the liberal pay, considerate of his feelings, tolerant of his reticence; not a man of them but respected their queer, silent guide's individuality as much as if he had been a man of their own sphere of life.

Emerging from the bushes, they found themselves standing on a gravel path, green with moss and weeds, which ran round the housea queer, dilapidated-looking building, which seemed sadly in want of repair: the plaster was cracked and discoloured, while the doors and windows had long stood in need of a fresh coating of paint.

I sometimes sew awful queer when I'm just tired.

[Illustration: "I hear somethingsomething queer."] Rudolf listened.

I questioned him, my voice sounding queer and far away in my own ears.

We kept our eyes peeled, an' pretty soon I spied a big brown bar actin' queer in an open spot across the canyon.

"Oh, he acted real queer.

" He uttered a queer, unsteady laugh and leaned his head against her.

But just the same I felt awful queer and shaky.

Folks git queer and put money in some spot, where they're apt to forgit all about it.