Mac was still the favourite; the champion chaplet was not thus hastily to be plucked from his hitherto victorious brows.

Mac was "kind o' dozin'" by the fire.

Mac was tryin' to do all he could, but ye canna do muckle wi' a flat bottomed boat when ye're but the ane oar, and he gied up at last.

Accomac appears to mean, at the place of the trees, or, as far as the open lands extend to the woods: mac, in this word, may be either a derivative from acké, earth, or,

But, once in camp, Mac the Miner was cock of the walk, in those first days, quoted "Caribou," and ordered everybody about to everybody's satisfaction.

"Mac, was I an original accomplice in this affair?

Of course, if any fellow was ill, Mac wasn't the man to refuse him a little cold pizen; but he must be allowed to keep his own medicine chestand that little pot o' Dundee marmalade.

But, well as I meant, Mac was angrier than ever.

There was one bond between him and the Kentucky Colonel: they were both religious men; and although Mac was blue Presbyterian and an inveterate theologian, somehow, out here in the wilderness, it was more possible to forgive a man for illusions about the Apostolic Succession and mistaken views upon Church government.

Its use was not apparent, but no one dared call it a "fancy touch," for Mac was a miner, and had been to Caribou.

This is the yarn that M'Larty told by the brazier fire, Where over the mud-filled trenches the star shells blaze and expire A yarn he swore was a true one; but Mac was an awful liar: "'Way up in the wild North Country, a couple of years ago I hauled Hank out of a snowdriftit was maybe thirty 'below,'