And lastly Edd said: "When you an' Ben were smokin' the grizzly I could hear the bullets hit close above us, an' I was sure scared stiff for fear you'd roll him down on us.

From that day to this, Ben has been a most devoted friend to me.

The joy of angling, once known, dwells in the body until death, and Ben was a born fisherman.

Ben-Zayb was a conscientious individual.

Ben is the type of many a Barbary Jew, who, to considerable intelligence, and a few grains of what may be called fair English honesty, unites the ordinarily deteriorated character of men, and especially Jews, bora and brought up under oppressive governments.

It's a shame, it is, for Master Ben is a gentleman and he isn't.

Ben, on the other hand, was a recurrence of an earlier type, inheriting little from his immediate ancestors but reverting back a thousand centuries to the Cave and the Squatting Place.

Ben was evidently a prospector, just as he claimed to be, and was venturing forth to get his first "lay of the land."

"Eh, Ben-Zayb, it wasn't a fool who designed that" asked Padre Camorra with a laugh.

Ben was a kind-hearted man, and, I believe, a Christian; he would always ask a blessing before he sat down to eat, and was in the constant practice of praying morning and night.

Ben is a prig, and preaches to Des.

If Ben wasn't a member o' the Bow Wows, I'll bet he could 'a' died an' hardly any one would 'a' known it but his mother.

" "Ben says if you had the least bit of" Ben was Eva's husband, and quotable, as are all successful men.

The truth is, Ben was himself a better critic than poet, and though he was ready at discovering the faults of Shakespear, yet he was not master of such a genius, as to rise to his excellencies; and great as Johnson was, he appears not a little tinctured with envy.

And ther ben also of other bestes, als grete and more gretter than is a destrere: and men clepen hem loerancz: and sum men clepen hem odenthos: and thei han a blak he

But Ben was a woodsman.

Be the whiche, my boke was preeved for trewe; in so moche that thei schewed me a boke, that my boke was examynde by, that comprehended fulle moche more, ben an hundred part; be the whiche, the Mappa Mundi was made after.

Captain Ben was a son of an old Virginia family who in better days had owned Monticello.

Ben was a good scholar.

He explained: "Ben has been with me a number of years.

"Yes, Ben," was the reply.

And no one knew better than Mark King that Ben had been close-hauled these latter years.

But never, never, Ben, will there be greater tales than we can tell of the Old Guard, Baldy of Nome and the othersour Immortals of the Trail.

She never exhibited a bad one, and her Huddersfield Ben, Toy Smart, Bright, Sandy, Ted, Bradford Hero, Bradford Marie, and Bradford Queenthe last being a bitch weighing only 24 oz.are remembered for their uniform excellence.

" Old Ben was the guide of all others Mr. Cravath would have chosen, next to Dandy Steve.