"I am Captain Robert Orme, of General Brad dock's staff, and I have come to admire Colonel Washington very greatly during the month that we have been associated.

" "Y' bet yore boots, an' honest to gosh gravy," added Brad Stearns, a thin and wrinkled little man whose leathery face and bright eyes defied the encroachment of time.

Chances are it's nothin' but a coupla bunches of braves with a cargo of redeye aboard, Tom, you an' Brad scout out an' take a look-see.

"I done guessed it, first crack," Brad said.

But old Brad's words, "good Injun," had carried him back to a picture of a brown, slim girl flashing indignation because Americans treated her race as though only dead Indians were good ones.

As the cow-pony went plunging up the slope, Morse saw Brad Stearns silhouetted against the sky-line at the summit.

"This yore put-in, Brad?" West, beside himself with rage, swung on the little man and straddled forward a step or two threateningly.

There was another long pow-wow. Brad, chewing tobacco complacently behind a wagon wheel, commented aloud.

"Don't onhook, Brad.

" Brad Stearns was talking.

When a man's got to go to the North Pole an' back, four months" Beneath her long lashes the girl slanted a swift look at Brad.

Brad gazed at her through narrowed lids.

"If you could show me how to get your two-fisted man when he comes backor even the one with the red coat and the spurs and the fine line of talk" "I ain't sayin' he ain't a man from the ground up too," Brad broke in.

" "West?" asked Brad.

" Brad let out the exultant rebel yell he had learned years before in the Confederate army.

The Germans always showed heat when they found a big service clasp-knife hung about a captured Englishman's neck on a lanyard, calling it a barbarous weapon because of the length of the blade and long sharp brad-awl which folded into a slot at the back of the handle; but an equally grim bit of cutlery in a Bavarian's bootleg seemed to them an entirely proper tool for a soldier to be carrying.

I have been hit by musket balls, by pistol bullets, and by bursting shells, besides being pierced by bayonet, lance, sabre, and finally by a brad-awl, which was the most painful of any.

An American has lately procured a patent from Congress, for cutting brads out of sheet iron with an engine.

The following extract from the advertisement of the patentee will enable you, to form some judgment of this singular undertaking: "He begs leave to observe their superiority to english-wrought brads consists in their being quite regular in their shape, so much so, that ten thousand may be drove through the thinnest pine board, without using a brad-awl, or splitting the board.

The following extract from the advertisement of the patentee will enable you, to form some judgment of this singular undertaking: "He begs leave to observe their superiority to english-wrought brads consists in their being quite regular in their shape, so much so, that ten thousand may be drove through the thinnest pine board, without using a brad-awl, or splitting the board.

She'll have stage room to burn in her scenes with Brad.

Oh, nonsense, Brad!

Never mind, Brad; you've made a mistake, that's all.

The ordeal of Brad Ogden.

The ordeal of Brad Ogden.