"Tight's a drum yit," observed Glover, surveying the coracle admiringly.

But the 75th Division held on with a stubbornness which was beyond praise, and the harder the Turk tried to reach the summit the tighter became the defence.

They're more than well paid, and they'll do as they're told and keep their traps as tight as clams'.

University Herald. ~A Rondel.~ "I'd draw the knot as tight as man can draw, And firm I'd make it fast by every law; Dearest, you need not speak your fond consent, Your paleness and your blush so finely blent," He gently said; "tell me my happy lot: I'd draw the knot.

A proper pad, with leather straps and buckles, that could be hauled as tight as necessarya sort of harness arrangement, could easily be devised, to secure dead game on the pad.

And yet, when they drive in carriages or go to their homes at night, they will shut themselves in as tight as oysters in their shells.