She had browbeaten fourteen salespeople, bullyragged a floor-walker, argued victoriously with a milliner, laid down the law to a modiste, nipped in the bud a taxi chauffeur's attempt to overcharge her, made a street car conductor stop the car in the middle of a block for her, discharged her maid and engaged another, and otherwise refused to allow herself to be imposed upon.

There was about the man the fascination which clothes a tight-rope walker above Niagara; an aeronaut in the midst of the nose dive.

Even in the most spacious grounds the walks should not seem too studiously winding, as if the short turns were meant for no other purpose than to perplex or delay the walker.

One does not expect a wire-walker to play fine billiards.

He gave the bad walker to perfection; then imitated a lad who had commenced singing lessons, and whose voice was at present broken and bad.

" It is recorded again of a celebrated beauty, Becky Monteith, that being asked how she had not made a good marriage, she replied, "Ye see, I wadna hae the walkers, and

If I was perplexed, I wasn't going to give Lord Ralles the right of way, and as soon as I had made certain that the telegram was safely started I joined the walkers.

Before he saw the walker, he knew him for a belated pedestrian hurrying home.

But those women will tell any "walkers" for pelf, And swear I'm all blackwhen

In fact, the whole parish and neighbourhood resemble a combination of groves, interspersed with fields cultivated like gardens, and intersected with those green dry lanes which tempt the walker in all weathers, especially in the evenings, when in the short grass of the dry sandy banks lies every few yards a glowworm, and the nightingales are pouring forth their melody in every direction.

This Amazon was a strapping young woman of twenty, who led their party through the forest at a pace which tried the best walkers.

"I've heard it is dangerous to waken a sleep-walker suddenly.