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I quickly brought forth the box, soaked the paper label, and after removing it, smoothed the top of the pomade nicely over, wrapped it in paper, and gave it to her with directions for use; and invited her to call again and let me know how she got along. She had no sooner made her exit than the Doctor "bobbed up serenely."

It is poor gymnastics if we desire to astound the world by nicely finished and smoothly gliding combinations of complex movements fit to be put into the repertoire of a juggler, or by exhibitions of strength vying with those of a Sandow, if we do not take into consideration the effects upon the vital functions. "Look at these fellows," said the physician, "built like giants and rotten inside!"

And just then his eyes met those of Nani, who from the outset had been watching him with the inquisitive air of a man who is making an experiment. "That banner is superb, isn't it?" said Nani, drawing near. "How it must please his Holiness to be so nicely painted in company with so pretty a virgin."

But, just as they were going nicely and Trouble was laughing in delight, there was a sudden cracking sound and Janet cried: "Oh, I'm falling! I'm falling! The swing is coming down!" And that is just what happened. With a crackle and a snap the grapevine swing sagged down on one side.

Smooth almost as glass the walls were, and the floor as well, perhaps worn down by countless prisoners. The iron door, cleverly let into the wall, lay flush with it, and offered not the slightest irregularity to the touch. So nicely was it fitted that not even Stern's finger-nail could penetrate the joint. "Nothing doing in the escape line," he passed judgment unwillingly.

They went to the house and Mr. Saylor took off his wet clothes and went to bed. When he awoke the next morning they hung on a chair, dry and nicely cleaned; there was even a fashionable crease down the trouser legs. Elhannon's dude son had pressed them for him.

Gillet," the old lady said; "he keeps the keys of the stores. See, over in that cottage near the tank, and speak nicely, children, please." "Such a gentleman," she said in a low tone to Esther, "so clever, so polished, if only he did not drink so." Meg and Judy went, with Baby hurrying after them as fast as her short legs would allow. "Come in," a voice said, when they knocked.

He must shriek, until to the sympathetic bystander it seems that his throat must split wide open. Furthermore, he must shriek the proper things. It all sounds alike to every one but transport riders and oxen; but as a matter of fact it is Boer-Dutch, nicely assorted to suit different occasions.

No; this knowledge is not only unnecessary, it is even impossible. Prof. Ladd says of this: "It would be a great mistake to regard the mind as having before it the cerebral machinery, all nicely laid out, together with the acquired art of selecting and touching the right nervous elements in order to produce the desired motion, as a skilful player of the piano handles his keyboard."

In vain I told them that I suffered from a drought of both manuscripts and ideas; they would not leave me alone; and I have just received another letter from a nice lady, who gives it me nicely.