Mrs. Corbett was giving her steel knives a quick rub with ashes out of deference to the lady stoppers.

Then, whenever he went out, it was quite plain and sober, on a rough little mountainy garran; and he thought himself grand entirely if his big ould fashioned boots got a rub of the grase.

Chorus: For the banks, &c. ’Twas done without reason, for leaving the season No squatter could stand such a rub; For it’s useless to squat when the rents are so hot That one can’t save the price of one’s grub; And there’s not much to choose ’twixt the banks and the Jews Once a fellow gets put up a tree; No odds what I feel, there’s no court of appeal For a broken-down squatter like me.

THE WASHER-WOMAN A great swart cheek and the gleam of tears, The flutter of hopes and the shadow of fears, And all day long the rub and scrub With only a breath betwixt tub and tub.

"He eat your Injer-rub, but he no break your machine!"

Successful commonly in these undertakings, because he passes smoothly those rubs which others stumble at, as conscience and the like; and gratulates himself much in this advantage.

To beautify and preserve the stock rub with raw linseed oil.

Do you not think the good Lord has given us the telephone (that we may better reach that elbow-rub of brotherhood which is the highest of human ideals) and the railroad (that we may widen our human knowledge and sympathy)and even the motor-car?

"Den she rub an' rub, but, bless yo' heart, Mars' George!

Well, lusty guts, I mean to make ye stay, And set some rubs in your mind's smoothest way.

You ought to meet a little rub or two or you will be too much in the clouds and forget that you are among mortals.

I escaped another rub in this French army about five days after, which had like to have made me pay dear for my curiosity.

" Rhona smiled bitterly, and felt the rub of roughened palms against her icy hands.