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The piano upstairs, which has accompanied a mixed choir of male and female voices, is silent. The waiter has finished his countless journeys from the speaking tube to the verandah; the proprietor enters into his daybook the last few bottles of champagne which have been ordered upstairs.

"Oh, I promise you I'll bring her home as good as new!" declared Polly recklessly. And with profuse thanks she darted softly away. The four walked sedately down the long stairs in repressed glee, the three ladies waiting on the piazza while Polly registered their names, destination, time of starting, and expected return, in the daybook on the secretary's desk.

Before closing this letter, I have a mind to transcribe to you the entries for to-day recorded in a sort of daybook, where I put down very succinctly the number of people who visit me, their petitions and ailments, and also such special particulars concerning them as seem to me worth recording.

Edwin was familiar with every detail of the printer's work-book, the daybook, the combined book colloquially called `invoice and ledger, the `bought' ledger, and the shop cash-book. But he could form no sure idea of the total dimensions and results of the business, because his father always kept the ultimate castings to himself, and never displayed his private cash-book under any circumstances.

What are we running here, anyway: a cloak and suit business or a cut-rate ticket office?" "Don't you worry about her, Abe," Morris replied. "She's got her cashbook and daybook posted and she also got it a substitute. He's coming this afternoon." "He's coming?" Abe said. "So she got it a young feller, Mawruss?" "Well, Abe," Morris replied, "what harm is there in that?

That's one of 120 sail that we saw; multiply 120 by 20, and then you have the number of vessels that we must attend under this crackbrained scheme of ours. All the ledger and daybook men say we are crackbrained. Now, if we can go on doing just a little with our ordinary dispensaries, is it wise to risk playing at magnificence? You see I am taking the side of Mr. Commonsense against my own ideas."

He wrote a formal letter to the Company the old East India Company which administered an empire with ledger and daybook calling their attention to the mistake in the newspaper, and begging them not to trouble to give the matter publicity, as he had already advised his friends. This done, he proceeded with the ordinary routine of his daily life. Such men as this are case-hardened.

"Say, Al," observed Issy, one afternoon in late August of that year, "how do YOU like that Raymond young feller?" Albert looked up absently from the page of the daybook. "Eh? What?" he asked. "I say how do YOU like that Eddie Raymond, the Down-at-the-Neck one?" "Down at the neck? There's nothing the matter with his neck that I know of." "Who said there was? He LIVES down to the Neck, don't he?

Father Conmee went by Daniel Bergin's publichouse against the window of which two unlabouring men lounged. They saluted him and were saluted. Father Conmee passed H. J. O'Neill's funeral establishment where Corny Kelleher totted figures in the daybook while he chewed a blade of hay. A constable on his beat saluted Father Conmee and Father Conmee saluted the constable.

Such observations should cover everything about the child his movements, cries, impulses, sleep, dreams, personal preferences, muscular efforts, attempts at expression, games, favourites, etc. and should be recorded in a regular daybook at the time of occurrence.