" XXIV INTO THE PRIMITIVE Tested upon purely diplomatic principles, Miss Van Brock's temper was little less than angelic, exhibiting itself under provocation only in guarded pin-pricks of sarcasm, or in small sharp-clawed kitten-buffetings of repartee.

She hunts field-mice, shrew-miceeven partridge, and this hard work in the fields has toughened her young muscles and given a rather gloomy expression to her kitten-face.

I love to see kittens play.