... LUCY A SKETCH. BY II. T. FARRANT. A wide, low-raftered kitchen, lit only by the dancing light from the big logs burning on the hearth. In the far corner, behind the high-backed settle, a tall clock ticked solemnly in the deep-brown shadow. Else where ...

... with ungainly skill, and needless cautions to his horse (who stood like a rock), descended. Then he walked into the Squire's kitchen, with whip in hand, as usual, as if he were come to deliver goods. The fat cook now was sitting calmly by the fire meditating ...

... grandeur of her new position, and is always lamenting over the magnitude of the butcher's bill, and the sinful waste in her kitchen. And, last, and best of all, there is Mrs. Dulcimer, the vicar's wife, one of the most amusing specimens of the perfectly ...

... you '11 come downstairs, said Bertram Lane. Downstairs be hanged said Garthorne. I don't want to see the kitchen-maid. My mother was a kitchen-maid once but I always tell people that she was an Austrian baroness. They swallow everything I like to tell ...

... English style, and include, in addition to the church, a cloister, chapter house, refectory, dormitory, guest-house, lavatory, kitchen, offices, &c., with massive walls and buttresses^ jpng' and narrow windows, high gables and roofs, with deeply arched doorways ...

... is completely surrounded, when suddenly the lion that is, the Head Waiter stalks magnificently down on his prey from the kitchen. The jackals disperse to their various tables. Head Waiter (condescendingly). You are going to lunch here, Sir? Jack. That ...

... A NOVEL, IN A NUTSHELL. THE APOTHEOSIS OF DERBY lvEENO. BY MAXWELL LAURIE. Husband and wife sat by the fireside in the kitchen of their little New England homestead. The lad would a-made a right smart business man, lubal observed regretfully. It is the ...

... shall have to try the village girls again. Well, I found her and Dighton our head lad, you know, sjr spooning about at the kitchen door the other day. I gave Tom a bit of my mind. Remember you tell that young hussy that if she does not mend her ways she ...

... he had stood alone in the field. There had been some half-hearted talk of an opposition candidate some whisperings in farm-kitchens and bothies, in village smiddies and market-places, that the Provost o' Avonbeg was screwing his courage up, and would yet ...

... particularly good. One of the industries of Fulham is the laundry. The best class of prisoners are employed in the laundry, the kitchen, and the bakehouse. There was certainly quite a beautiful show of linen at Fulham, perfectly well washed and capitally got ...

... We were agreeably surprised to see the windows of the inn lit up, and when we entered to find a table drawn up near the kitchen hearth at which was seated a thin, spectacled gentle man, in a black somewhat greasy frock coat, and old grey trousers. For ...

... in fuel for the cooks, who, always noisy and self-important, were running* now for this, now for that, in and out of the kitchen in which they ate and slept and prepared the castle meals. John the Steward was giving instructions for the day to shepherds ...