" Mr. Elderberry cleared his throat tentatively.

so the financial and corporate Elderberry might equally well ask: "Exactly.

" Mr. Elderberry swept with a bland inquiring eye the shore of the glassy sea about which his associates were gathered.

" "I propose," answered Mr. Elderberry brightly, in his capacity as chief conspirator for Scherer, Hunn, et al., "that we organize a new corporation to be called 'Lallapaloosa Limited' and capitalize it at a million dollarsone million shares at a dollar a share.

" "Mr. Chippingham has the papers drawn already," continued Elderberry.

When Mr. Greenbaum was summoned to the telephone and informed by Mr. Elderberry in disgruntled tones that somebody had just served upon him an order to show cause why the proposed reorganization of Horse's Neck should not be set aside and enjoined, he not only became instantly annoyed but highly excited.

"I'll read it to you, if you don't believe it!" said Mr. Elderberry.

"I don't know," retorted Elderberry; "or Barrows either.

" There was a long pause during which Mr. Elderberry was under a convincing delusion that he could actually hear the thoughts that were rattling round in Mr. Greenbaum's brain.

" "That was when we were making a market for the stock," Elderberry reminded him.

" "Who is Wilson W. Elderberry?"

Elderberry squirmed.

Elderberry studiously examined the moldings on the cornice of the judge's canopy.

and we deny any responsibility for this man, Elderberry.

" This man, Elderberry, who for twelve long years had writhed under the biting lash of his employer's tongue, hating him with a hatred known only to those in subordinate positions who are bribed to suffer the "whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely," quivered and saw red.

"Your swindling client traded some bum stock in a fake corporation for Bloom's stock, which he received for bona fide services" "Like Elderberry's?" inquired Tutt innocently.

Elderberry just telephoned me that he had received a telegram from the Amphalula that the vein had definitely run out.

" "Elderberry telephone you?" queried Miss Wiggin in astonishment.

"Yes, Elderberry.

When you attempted to block this proposed reorganization you knew nothing about the Elderberry circular of 1914 valuing the property at ten million, or of the Amphalula vein.

It was filled with a wild growth of elderberry bushes, which made it an excellent hiding place.

Tiny Armstrong, shouting her way through the woods, first heard a muffled bark and then a feeble answer to her call, coming from the direction of the ravine, and charging toward it like a fire engine she discovered the two under the elderberry bushes.

"So de nex' night Jeff went back, en Aun' Peggy gun 'im a baby doll, wid a body made out'n a piece er co'n-stalk, en wid splinters fer a'ms en laigs, en a head made out'n elderberry peth, en two little red peppers fer feet.

Elerson quietly lighted his pipe and aided him, while Murphy shaved off a white square of bark on the maple-tree under the slow-turning body, and I wrote with the juice of an elderberry: "Daniel Redstock, a child murderer, executed by American Riflemen for his crimes, under order of George Ormond, Colonel of Rangers, August 19, 1777.

There is an excellent prescription for making elderberry wine, besides, in which Malaga raisins are to be largely used.