I was afraid some prowling lynx might get away with it," he remarked, composedly; while his two admiring chums were whacking him on the back admiringly, and insisting on proudly shaking hands with him over and over again.

"Did my good cooking help her any afore she whacked them boys?

"The cable office," said the girl briefly, whereupon a lad of mixed ancestry began to whack energetically the protuberant ribs of the drowsy steed.

This may appear a statement inconsistent with my acknowledgment that I permitted coolies to be beatenthe beating being no more than a technical "assault," and never a "thrashing!"but my contention is that when you have to deal with people of so low an organisation that they can only be reached by elementary arguments, they must be treated absolutely as children, and judiciously whacked as such.

"Here, you lummox!" she cried, and whacked him soundly over the back with it, "what are ye standing there gaping at?

The Jap had the buckskin mustang up in a corner and was vigorously whacking him with a huge pole.