The hold-up of railroad trains is now of frequent occurrence, and is not confined to the unsettled sections of the country.

Reckon this 's a regular I.W.W. hold-up.

Twenty years ago some hold-up men from New York robbed a bank in Delaware, and were caught, and given 50 lashes apiece on the bare back, by a big negro, and there has never been a burglary in Delaware since.

"Isthisis this a hold-up?" "What are you doin' herethis time of nightan' on that filly?"

they evidently anticipated a hold-up, and no doubt arrived home with a breathless tale of two suspicious-looking characters hanging about the neighbourhood.

"It's a hold-up game," declared Beth, angrily.

She knew, from what she had gathered of their casual hints, that this was to be the scene of the train hold-up.

Then: "Don't be a fool," exclaimed Slayton with contempt; "this is no hold-up country.

We have to appear in Judge MacFarlane's court to-morrow afternoon prepared to show that this thing is only a hold-up with a blank cartridge.

"But some of the papers are claiming that it was a legal hold-up, pure and simple.

It looks to me like the James boys could 'a' learned something from this gospel hold-up.

It was high noon, but they found during the hold-up, a bit of shade and breeze on a commanding hill.

The Split Canyon hold-up.

The Split Canyon hold-up.

The Split Canyon hold-up.

" "Well, Lord Ralles," I said, "I hope for your sake, then, that you'll never be in a hold-up, for I should feel about you as the runner of a locomotive did when the old lady asked him if it was'nt very painful to him to run over people.

That fellow standing in the ditch is Jack Drute, who was concerned in the D.& R.G. hold-up three years ago.

"That is the queerest hold-up of which I ever heard," I remarked to Miss Cullen.

It was a run of seven hours, getting us in a little after eight, and in those hours I had done a lot of thinking which had all come to one resultthat Mr. Cullen's party was concerned in the hold-up.

"They're gettin' the fellers together, and sayin' that yer shot a woman in the hold-up.

I knew the mob had been told that I had killed a woman in the hold-up, for the cowboy, bad as he is, has his own standards, beyond which he won't go.

It was easy enough to see that it was a hold-up, pure and simple.

" "Well, now, that bank robbery that you were telling the boys about," said Baugh, as he bit the tip from a fresh cigar, "reminds me of a hold-up that I was in up in the San Juan mining country in Colorado.

There was an early train out of town that morning, and at a place where they stopped for breakfast he sat at the table with several drummers who were in the hold-up, a most attentive listener.

"He's used to these hold-up joints where they charge you forty cents for a greasy plate," the man explained, speaking with his mouth full.