Endeavoring, then, to collect his ideas, he prepared to perform that species of incantation, and those uncouth rites, under which the Indianconjurers are accustomed to conceal their ignorance and impotency.

Upon the strength of this reasoning, I ventured to address them in the following manner: "Gentlemen, if you beconjurers, as I have good cause to believe, you can understand my language; therefore I make bold to let your worships know that I am a poor distressed Englishman, driven by his misfortunes upon your coast; and I entreat one of you to let me ride upon his back, as if he were a real horse, to some house or village where I can be relieved.

They were armed to the best of their scanty means, and some of the Shoshonies had bucklers of buffalo hide, adorned with feathers and leathern fringes, and which have a charmed virtue in their eyes, from having been prepared, with mystic ceremonies, by theirconjurers.

Men of letters, following in the painters' wake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discovered to possess inimitable drollery; there were those who found an aesthetic delight in performing dogs; while others exhausted their vocabulary to extol the distinction ofconjurers and trick-cyclists.

O, yes; and with him comes the Germanconjurer, The learned Faustus, fame of Wittenberg, The wonder of the world for magic art; And he intends to shew great Carolus The race of all his stout progenitors, And bring in presence of his majesty The royal shapes and perfect semblances Of Alexander and his beauteous paramour.

He was the child of his parents' youth and joy; he grew up like theconjurer's rosebush, and all the world was his oyster.

"That is certainly a very pretty deception," said the doctor's friends; carelessly, however, for they had witnessed greater miracles at aconjurer's show; "pray how was it effected?"

"Mr Todhunter," explained Father Brown placidly, "is learning to be a professionalconjurer, as well as juggler, ventriloquist, and expert in the rope trick.

It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch, or a wand to aconjurer. Speak it but thus, in a deep grave tone, Pax vobiscum!

"If we keep friends with them," said he, "we have nothing to fear from the Blackfeet, and can rule the mountains." Arapooish pretended to be a great "medicine man", a character among the Indians which is a compound of priest, doctor, prophet, andconjurer. He carried about with him a tame eagle, as his "medicine" or familiar.

In good truth, Porthos I cannot tell why you have not turnedconjurer. So you understand that arriving at Roche-Bernard, I heard of the splendid fortifications going on at Belle-Isle.

There was a magic in words greater than theconjurer's art.