Reef the t'gallant sails of your temper, boy, and don't run foul of an old man who has been all but a wet-nurse to yetaught ye to walk, and swim, and pull an oar, and build ships, and has hauled ye out o' the sea when ye fell infrom the time ye could barely stump along on two legs, lookin' like as if ye was more nor half-seas-over.

With these reflections he stumped downstairs, and seated himself on the black, oaken settle in the hall to await the boy's advent.

" Mr. Stobell, unable to trust himself with speech, stumped fiercely up and down the beach.

Smithson stumped up very handsomely at the last General Election, and the Conservatives are not strong enough to be ungrateful.

I began to believe you were hopelessly stumped.

Now as the car drew nearer, Anthea, with a thrill of pleasure, recognized the Sergeant standing very much as though he were on parade, and with honest-faced Peterday beside him, who stumped joyfully forward, and,with a bob of his head, and a scrape of his wooden leg,held out his hand to her.

In an instant he was out of the room, down the great stairway, and at the entrance of the rez-de-chaussée, just as the postilion, dismounting, opened the door of the carriage from which emerged a large, handsome man of about thirty-five or six, who moved with surprising agility considering the fact that he boasted but one good leg, the other member being merely a wooden stump.

He was president of the city school-board, head of the vast Union Iron Works, and besides performing many herculean labors, was stumping the state nightly in favor of the election of William McKinley to the presidency of the United States.

There were many torches of birch-bark, shaped like straight tin horns, lying ready for use on a stump outside.

Plainly it stumped Unookuk.

Louise was reading in the hammock, and merely glanced at the little man, who solemnly stumped around to the back door with the three red volumes tucked underneath his arm.

He left me to stump upstairs alone and receive a good rating from the Countess for not having kept him.

I must tell you this, though, at the beginningup to the present moment, I have been utterly and completely 'stumped.'