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"Where can I get a flatiron?" I inquired at the Postoffice when I first entered the village. "Most likely at Burridge's," was the reply. "Do you know where I can get a pair of row-locks?" I asked of a boy who was lounging about the town dock. "At Burridge's," he replied.

A day or two later I was in search of a table and on going to Burridge's found that he had gone to a neighboring city. "Have you got a table?" I inquired of the clerk. "I don't know," he replied. "There's some furniture in the back room, but I don't know as I dare to sell any of it while he's away." "Why?" "Well, he don't like me to sell any of it. He's kind of queer that way.

The Millars were constantly hearing of fresh examples of hardship, and courage to meet the hardship, piquing and inciting them to enterprise and self-sacrifice on their own account. Now it would be May, who would come in from Miss Burridge's with a blanched face, crying, "Oh! you girls, do you know Ella Carey has gone and is not coming back again?

You can have that back." "That's the way you do business, is it?" "Yes, sir," he replied, and his long upper lip thinned out along the line of the lower one like a vise. I was in search of a rocking-chair one day and was directed to Burridge's as the only place likely to have any! "Do you keep furniture?" I inquired. "Some," he said. "Have you a rocking-chair?" "No, sir."

It needed her great superiority to her companions in any approach to scholarly intellect and attainment to enable her to retain the first place in Miss Burridge's classical department. "What shall we call him, Dora?" she earnestly consulted her sister, hanging breathless on the important answer. "Call him whatever you like, May. You know he is your dog," said Dora with decision.

But though she had been tolerably well trained so far, by a good drawing-master at Miss Burridge's, and by the lessons she had received from the wandering exhibitor at the Academy and the Grosvenor, neither she nor her family could be sufficiently infatuated to imagine she wanted no more teaching.

As for Ella and Phyllis, looking on aghast at the wholesale destruction of what they had been accustomed to consider the ordinary comforts not to say the luxuries and refinements of their home the girls were informed that they were not to go back to Miss Burridge's, where their quarters were paid in advance.

The latter consisted, at this hour, of shop boys and girls, boys from the grammar school, a file of boarders from Miss Burridge's, who walked as if "eyes right" and "eyes left" were the only motion permitted to them, notwithstanding May's frantic signs to them to behold and admire Tray's gambols; a professional man, or a tradesman, leisurely doing a business errand; one or two ladies carrying the latest fashion in card-cases, suggestive of afternoon calls.

I cannot stand the repression suppression whatever you like to call it. Now that there is a way out of it, I have felt like a wild beast in the school the girls are so very tame so much tamer than we were at Miss Burridge's where I was not a black sheep May will tell you if you care to ask her," protested Rose with wounded feeling.

Wharton was working up the defence with an energy and ability which set Burridge marvelling, it was still his, Burridge's opinion, that everything that could be advanced would be wholly unavailing with the jury; that the evidence, as it came into final shape, looked worse for Hurd rather than better; and that the only hope for the man lay in the after-movement for reprieve which can always be got up in a game-preserving case.