After a morning of up-stairs and down-stairs and in and out of chambers, Mrs. Kaufman, enveloped in a long-sleeved apron still angular with starch, hung up the telephone receiver in the hall just beneath the staircase and entered her bedroom, sitting down rather heavily beside the open shelf of her desk.

I said, as I took down the receiver of my desk 'phone, in answer to the call.

"What do you want? Haven't I given orders not to be" His voice died away; he nearly dropped the receivers.

Mademoiselle Chiron ran to answer it, and accidentally dropped her handkerchief on the floor in picking up the receiver.

" Norgate laid down the receiver.

"Yes," she said, holding the receiver so tightly her knuckles went white with the pressure.

The coroner rose and lifted the receiver.

He set the receiver down.

She replaced the receiver.

"If this complainant is going to be defrauded I will enjoin this contract pendente lite and appoint a receiver.

He placed the receiver to his ear.

" "Do the pirates afflict you much in the north?" asked the Receiver with keen interest.

(putting down the receiver)

Then he hurried to the telephone, snatched up the receiver and talked into it, his eyes all the time fixed upon Wingate in a sort of frightened stare.

"Now," he said, "with this tiny machine concealed in my waistcoat pocket, I walk up to any man and, by turning a screw like the stem of a watch, open the microscopical receiver.

" She heard him slam up the receiver, and she leaned there, palpitating, with the queer, vacant sounds of the telephone filling her ear.

" Virginia threw down the receiver.

It was while the pendulum of prosperity was in full swing that David Kent took a day off from sweating over his problem of ousting the receiver and ran down to Gaston.

I caught up the receiver and when central answered, I said something about The Whispering Pines and wanting help.

" The love nature of each human being is either developed or stunted by neglect during the early years of life, and, as a rule, the beautiful woman is incapable of a deep, absorbing, and unselfish love, because she has grown up the receiver instead of the giver.

Then, without a word, he hooked up the receiver.

THE PRESENCE (indicating the receiver).

Once or twice I have even gone so far as to introduce a receiver to a successful thief.

It is said that a very ingenious American, named Drawbaugh, had anticipated all the inventors of every part of the telephone system; that he had invented a receiver before Bell; that he had invented the compressed carbon arrangement before Edison; that he had invented the microphone before our friend Professor Hughes; and that, in fact, he had done everything on the face of the earth to establish the claims set forth.

he answered, receiver at ear, as he sat down in the swivel-chair of aluminum with its hydrogen cushion.