" His trusty oaken plant was near The prowling rogues look round, and leer, And each his wicked wits 'gan rub, How to bear off the famous Club; Thinking that they sans price or hire wou'd Carry 't strait home, and chop for fire wood.

I am use to zat,I am use to have persons smile reeseeblement, to tap zere fronts, an' spek of ze strait-jackets.

In desperate straits men can do desperate thingsthere was always that fact to be remembered; but still John Saltram might break down under the burden he had taken upon himself; and when Gilbert went back to London that afternoon he was sorely anxious about this feeble traveller.

I walk alone, without one brother's care, To whom I might, amid my straits repair.

II BOY SCOUTS TO THE RESCUE IV SAM IN DIRE STRAITS V