Pa Kept Mauling the Lion.

The Poodle was tried for retrieving with some success, and he showed considerable aptitude in finding and fetching wounded wild duck; but he, too, was inclined to maul his birds and deliver them dead.

Pa tried to head off Bolivar at the grocery, but Bolivar took half a watermelon and put the red side on top of pa's head, and squashed it down so the seeds and juice and pulp ran down pa's shirt and neck, and he looked as though murder had been committed, but pa wiped his face on his shirt sleeve and showed game, because he kept mauling Bolivar with the hook.

Skilful carving of game undoubtedly adds to the pleasure of the guests at a dinner-table; for game seems pre-eminently to be composed of such delicate limbs and tender flesh that an inapt practitioner appears to more disadvantage when mauling these pretty and favourite dishes, than larger and more robust pièces de résistance.

Feverish with desire, with aching back and stiffening muscles, with pick and shovel gouging and mauling the soft brown earth, the man toiled up the hill.

'He (the tiger) mauled four elephants, one of whom died the same day, and one other had a narrow batch, i.e. escape, of its life.

They maul each other's faces with savage violence, and if one is knocked down her friends assist her to regain her feet, and the brutal combat is renewed until one or the other is driven from the wigwam.

" "How finely would the sparks be caught to-day, Should a Whig poet write a Tory play, And you, possessed with rage before, should send Your random shot abroad and maul a friend?

'It seems,' said he, 'you met him on your road hither, when he was in the hands of some base fellows that had a mind to maul himdo you remember such a matter?'

"He might maul him a little, but I won't.

E.N. QUIRE"What are those women mauling that man for?"

St. John, as well as Pultney, knows, That I had some repute for prose; And, till they drove me out of date, Could maul a minister of state.

Incidentally, to keep his hands "from mauling the natives," he had caused to be planted at different times, several thousand acres of cacao trees, all of which were now bearing.

No miscreant now Creeps Thug-like up, to maul the passer-by.

"Love me, love my dog," was an easy task for Wagner, and he was glad of the privilege of caressing Leah's poodle, and of mauling her piano.

The tan-faced cub licked his chops just once, as if torn between the prospective delight of mauling Pipoonaskoos and the more imperative duty of following Thor.

At first curiosity attracted this animal, and later the hunting instinct caused him to maul his prey.

Villain, I'll maul thee for thine old offences, And grind thy bones to powder with this pestle!

"We have a beautiful example of one here to-night," he continued; "indeed you were dancing with himthe bear who mauled Lady Tilchester.

It was hottest there around the bend of our line, from our view-point; for there they must maul the trench into formless debris and cut the barbed wire in front of it before the charge was made.

"You said you would marry mewhat is a fellow to understand?" "You are to understand that I will not be mauled andand kissed likelike Hephzibah at the back door," I said, with freezing dignity, my head in the air.

Her mind suddenly filled with wild visionsof herself marched through the village by Watson, as she had once seen him march a poacher who had mauled one of Mr. Forrest's keepersof the towering walls of Frampton Gaolof a visible physical shame which would kill herdrive her mad.