"Humph!" growled the man, as the boy gave him the message.

"Or," said Beltane, "the fool shall charm thy souls to kindliness with his pipe" "Ho, Roger!" cried the second forester, "split me this tall talker's yellow sconce, now!" "Come," growled Roger, threatening of mien, "yield us the fool, 'tis an arrant knave hath angered his lord!"

" "Who was it?" growled Sir Beverley suspiciously.

Can't I, Captain Franks?" "Can't say," growled the Captain.

"The idea of making coal heavers out of us!" growled a much-disgusted voice.

"I don't know anything about his looks," growled her father.

Were be ye, Bucky?" "Shut yer bloomin' face," growled Buckrow.

"Alone!" growled Walkyn, clutching his axe.

" "What do you mean by white people?" growled Mr. Rushton, "you know very well that you are white.

"Huh! Is the conspiracy all cut-an'-dried?" growled the Major.

" "It is outside my district," growled the fellow, but I saw that his hesitancy was due to his uncertainty as to whom I really might be.

The fellow growled out an oath, and would have sprung at me, but the other flung his arms round him and pinned him to the chair. 'Not if I know it, Bustler,' he screamed.

" "Nevertheless," growled Little John, "the holy Saint Swithin holdeth the waters of the heavens in his pewter pot, and he could have poured them out, had he chosen, even from a clear sky; and wouldst thou have had me wet to the skin?"

" "Who talked of juggin', ye fool?" growled the Master.

"I'm going to get mine changed, if I can," growled Pennington, wheeling upon Dave Darrin.

" "Hide and seek," growled Trendon.

"You're wrong as hell," said Silent, "a woman can shoot at a target, but it takes a cold nerve to shoot at a manan' this feller is yellow all through!" "Is he?" growled Bill Kilduff, "well, I'd hate to take him by surprise, so's he'd forget himself.

"Well, I'm here," growled West, interlarding a few oaths as a necessary corollary of his speech.

Of a sudden he ended the argument by thrusting the slip back into the hands of the jackal, growled a few words of imperative instruction, jerked his thumb toward the ticket bureau, and without more ado turned and strode from the terminus.

" "He's a cad," growled Dismal Jones.

" "You'll live over it," growled the thirsty skipper.

"That conscienceless brat of a Willie steals 'em all," growled Mr. Tutt.

A man forward on his knees growled out a curse.

"You might ha' guessed that it would be worse," growled Dennis.

"Git out of the saddle damn quick," growled Silent.