The soldiers had been living for weeks on hard biscuit and bully beef, and many were willing to pay a shilling for a small cake of bread.

Now look you here, Bill, You're a bully boy, that's true; As good as e'er wore buckskin, Or fought with the boys in blue; But I'll bet my bottom dollar Ye had no trouble to muster A tear, or perhaps a hundred, At the news of the death of Custer.

We've had one bully time on this tripwith the reverse English.

The lad stepped back respectfully, but grinned, reiterating, "Bully dog.

The lad of all-sufficient merit, With modesty ne'er damps his spirit; Presuming on his own deserts, On all alike his tongue exerts; His noisy jokes at random throws, And pertly spatters friends and foes; In wit and war the bully race Contribute to their own disgrace.

That reminds me" Sharon hesitated in mild embarrassment"there's a place between them two wingsmake a bully place for a sun room; spoil the architecture, mebbe, but who cares?

And the what-not's fixed up lovely, and the mats have all been beat, And the pantry's brimmin' over with the bully things ter eat; Sis has got her Sunday dress on, and she's frizzin' up her bangs; Ma's got on her best alpacky, and she's askin' how it hangs; Pa has shaved as slick as can be, and I'm rigged way up in G,

I got a bully corner all picked out, Jackbest corner in Seattle for a gin-mill.

and then old Stuffy can rite to your farther to let you come here and tel him weve got a bully doctor Thee if Billy Sims is ded or got wel you mite ketch somthin ells and its prime heer farthers got a gun

"Prevanche was a bully fellow if he did have ideas about head-straps, the beggar.

"I'll have a bully fire in the fireplace in just a minute.

"This is what I call a bully fit.

"It was all bully fun, but that swizzle game where the marble ran round was the bestest of all, only some numbers it sat on took the pennies and some gave them back," and he indicated something flying round in a circle as he capered about.

You can wear feathers an' gold braid in processions, an' have stuff like this when you're sick, an' bully funerals with brass bands when you're dead.

It's a bully game, but I say, it's a great deal like lifethe splits go to the dealer; that is to say, that if the king comes out to win and lose at the same time, you lose anyhow, see?" "No," said Miss Mattie, truthfully.

And I've got some bully gingersnaps.

"That's my bully girl!"

They knew a good thing when they saw it, I bet that crowd noticed what a bully gun I carried, when we passed them on the road, and they've been hanging around ever since," avowed Bluff, positively.

Because look at Rob Roy," he said; "wasn't he a bully hero and a good scout and a fellow you could trust with a secretwasn't he?"

Bully idea (rubbing his ankle).

answered West, "but from the length of that chap I'll bet he's a bully kicker.

" "Oh, yes I can," he said, "because you're a bully kid and you're an A-1 sport, and you and I are going to be pals.

A bully knife; I wanted to find the thing."

"I've had bully luck," he confided to me, after I had done him a noble service (i.e., lent him a safety razor).

It was a bully morning and I felt A1.