At sixteen's stage of cruel hazing into man's estate Edwin Ross, whose voice, all in a breath, could slip up from the quality of rock in the drilling to the more brittle octave of early-morning milk-bottles, wore a nine shoe and a thirteen collar.

Stoddard faced his day, and decided that he would begin it with an early-morning horseback ride.

" Dave came back with the information that Mr. Stoddard was not at the house; he had left for an early-morning ride, and not returned to his breakfast.

quivering under the stars in the tense early-morning air, and would dart away to find game freshly killed by one of the old wolves awaiting them.

The immediate cause of revolt was early-morning fielding practice, that searching test of cricket keenness.

Mike himself, to whom cricket was the great and serious interest in life, had shirked early-morning fielding practice in his first term at Wrykyn.

We came to the conclusion that we hadn't any use for early-morning fielding.

" "Stone and I had a discussion about early-morning fielding practice," said Adair, turning to Mike.

goldarn an' blue blazes!" He had suddenly remembered having placed his memoranda in that hat, and as he studied its empty depths his mind pictured the important scrap fluttering along the sandy scene of his early-morning tumble.

"To inquire after our early-morning patient," he said.

In the same moment 'Home, Sweet Home' came to an end, and, but for the cry of a milkman, the early-morning silence was undisturbed.

To the City Magistrate a hanging was no more than a hair-cut, a neither pleasing nor displeasing interlude, hindering the doing of more strenuous duties; a nuisance, cutting into his early-morning reportwriting and other judicial work.