The usual formula gone through upon these occasions is as follows: Citizen approaches the scene of interest, and sees crowds of spectators upon each side; he glances at the workmen, and, after taking stock of both them and the overseer, proceeds to read the opinion of his fellows in their faces, after which he settles down in right earnest with his hands in his pockets for a prolonged stare.

I stood stock still for a moment, during which the only sounds audible were the singing of the winds through the rigging, the wash of the sea, and the small, sharp click of Perdosa's instrument as he worked at the chest.

He would see about selling the stock and making re-investments to-morrow.

We bought a stock of such articles as are usually found in a frontier store, and transported them to the place on Big Creek, where we were to found our town.

Line the stewpan with the bacon, put in the cabbage, carrots, and onions; moisten with skimmings from the stock, and simmer very gently, till the cabbage is tender; add the stock, stew softly for half an hour, and carefully skim off every particle of fat.

Neuman raised much wheat, and enough alfalfa to feed his stock.

He ran ahead, went up among the hay bales, found the coat containing the marble bag holding his little stock of money, and speedily rejoined the musician.

Later, during and after the Crusades, the stories of war and the mysteries of the East increased the stock in trade for the homes of Europe; but still the horizon remained a narrow one.

It will be seen that they are fewthey are not expensive; and by laying in a little stock of them, our instructions will be of instant value in all cases of accident, &c.

Not that Mr. Brush objected to him as a partner, but when Mr. Brush purchased the stock he purchased the control outright, although he did request Mr. Freedman to hold a few shares and not give up his personal interest in Base Ball, for Mr. Freedman had a great liking for the game in spite of his stormy career.

One of them carried a "bina," a second an ordinary school-slate covered with crude cabalistic signs and a third a rude book, something like a Vani's "chopda," filled with Marathi characters, which doubtless plays a part in the fortune-telling and spirit-scaring that form the stock-in-trade of these wandering hierophants.

The cheechalkos found themselves the laughing-stock of the town.

The demand for medicine is very light, but the local traders carry a small stock of patent and proprietary medicines.

] GLAZE-KETTLE.This is a kettle used for keeping the strong stock boiled down to a jelly, which is known by the name of glaze.

An' he says, says he: 'Yew git yer husband, an' bring that air stock over this arternoon; an',' says he, 'I'll realize on it fer yer ter-morrer mornin'.'

The expression "ordinary gait," as applied to driving in Kansas, where everybody owns "fast stock," is rather equivocal in these quieter latitudes to be sure, but we may guess that, at Leavenworth, a man who rides or drives at a pace of twenty miles an hour, is liable, "for instance," to a fine of $20, or just one dollar per mile.

He had been put in the carpenter shop, fastened in the stocks, but by some means he had gotten the stocks off his feet, and got loose.

Just after Christmas-tide I expected two ships to replenish the stock in my store.

It's a possible thing to raise healthy stock, treat it kindly, kill it mercifully, eat it decently.

Perdosa, out of forty or fifty mis-fires, got one feeble sputter, and a tremendous bang which blew up his piece, leaving only the stock in his hand.

"Why, I told you I gave that stock to you long ago.

In our babyhood we do not accumulate a large stock of terms before we frame phrases and clauses.

I was in hopes he had exhausted his whole stock of this sort in his letter to you.

The word "round-up" is derived from the fact that during the winter months the cattle become scattered over a vast tract of land, and the ranchmen assemble together in the spring to sort out and each secure his own stock.

These men were cattle dealers, and had been sending stock to Cho, and they were furious that men, in their rage for wealth, would so utterly ignore and trample on all decent and humane feelings as to torture animals as the Cho men were doing.