"The beautiful poetry recited here to-day," he drawled, "put some verses in my mind that I never had till I came here to-day."

'But I say, vather,' drawled out some one, 'they say there's a sight more money in England now, than there was afore the war-time.' 'Eees, booy,' said the old man; 'but ITS GOT INTO TOO FEW HANDS.

"Nothing surprises me; but I'll admit to being rather pleased at seeing you," drawled Howard, pushing him gently buck in the chair.

drawled Howard.

" She saw that he was shaking with rage; so she shrugged and drawled: "Oh, your reason!"

I built it"he drawled the words"for you"and added after a tingling moment"to see, ma'am.

What are you copying it for?letter to your girl?" Dickie had all the Westerner's prejudice against questions, but he felt drawn to this patron of the "hash-hole," so, though he drawled his answer slightly, it was an honest answer.

"Why," drawled Miss Blake, "I crept up when she was drying her hair and I cut it off."

" "Well," drawled Scoutbush, "I don't complain of her bolting; she's a very sweet creature, and always was: but, as Longreach says,and a very witty fellow he is, though you laugh at him,'If she'd kept to us, I shouldn't have minded: but as Guardsmen, we must throw her over.

"Well, Tug says the same thing," drawled Sleepy.

Mr. Mitchell drawled: "Wawl, I'm jest a-curin' some hams.

In the extremity of her scorn her voice drawled in a harsh murmur.

" "Ah-h-h," drawled Nash softly, "I thought so.

" "He'll sure fit in fine here," drawled Little Joe.

"How come?" drawled Jordan, and the heart of Lew Hervey sank.

"Partner," drawled Red Perris, and the silken smoothness of his tones was ample proof that he was enraged.

The voice drawled calmly to an end: "And that's what he is, this gent you got to finish what me and the rest started.

" "I think it very possible," drawled the Countess, looking at him, nevertheless, with a certain contempt for what she privately considered his priggish, underbred cant.

"Where did you learn all this, anyhow?" "Oh, just nosing round," drawled Nails, but his tone suggested that he was sure of his information and at the same time unwilling to disclose its source.

'These affairs, alas! are very greatly to be de' 'They are dd inconvenient,' Sir George drawled.

my lady drawled in surprise; and she inspected them through her quizzing-glass as coolly as if they were specimens of a rare order submitted to her notice.

I did not understand for whom the rooms were ordered, oror this unpleasantness would not have arisen.' 'To be sure,' Sir George drawled good-naturedly.

drawled Sir George lazily.

"Not to all strangers," he drawled, swinging his free foot over his horse's neck and settling his bulk on the saddle.

"Certainly," drawled that type of purity.