He is not happy until he has soundly trounced his predecessors and opponents.

But he and Mr. JOYNSON-HICKS and Mr. DILLONwhose sudden solicitude for the inhabitants of London was gently chaffed by Mr. CHAMBERLAINwere deservedly trounced by Mr. BONAR LAW, who declared that if their craven squealings were typical he should despair of victory.

"I am in hopes we shall trounce him yet, bravely as he carries it.

When he had received the report, the countenance of Alexéi Petróvitch brightenened"Kortsáreff has gloriously trounced the mountaineers!" said he.

"Suppose these rebels are rightand, dammy, but I think they areand suppose our King's troops are roundly trouncing themand I think they are, toodo you mean to say you'd draw sword and go a-prowling, seeking for some obliging enemy to knock you in the head or hang you for a rebel to your neighbor's apple-tree?" "Something of that sort," I said, good-humoredly.