I know that's ahobby of yours; well, the fact is, I like to see my horses hold their heads up."

Deane, as he dispensed the pigeonpie, "he must find farming a heavy item,--an expensivehobby. I never had ahobby myself, never would give in to that.

Darcy fluttered off, only, however, to come hurrying back with little, short, [61] scudding steps, to implore them all to come to tea with her as soon as possible in the garden that was her specialhobby, and in her last new summer-house.

"I ran it more by way of ahobby than for any other reason, and my children persuaded me to sell it.

I believe it will cost over a hundred thousand; that's hishobby just now.

"I beg your pardon," said the colonel; "I see yourhobby is folk-lore."

"Because that is my specialhobby. The differences are obvious.

That's my profession; also myhobby. Happy is the man who can make a living by hishobby!

And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, somehobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.

Well, go on," he continued, returning to hishobby; "tell me how the Germans have taught you to fight Bonaparte by this new science you call 'strategy.'"

Politeness is his greathobby, and he claims that if a child is allowed to do an impolite thing one cannot expect the grown person to do anything better."

At the time when Cornelius van Baerle began to devote himself to tulip-growing, expending on thishobby his yearly revenue and the guilders of his father, there was at Dort, living next door to him, a citizen of the name of Isaac Boxtel who from the age when he was able to think for himself had indulged the same fancy, and who was in ecstasies at the mere mention of the word "tulban," which