The breeze had freshened a little, and my boat drifted about fast enough for trollin', and feelin' a little drowsy, I tied the end of the line to the cleets across the knees of the boat, and lay down in the bottom with my hand out over the side holdin' the line.

I looked for my knife to cut it, but it had, somehow, got overboard in our flight, besides flyin' about at the rate of sixty mile an hour, kept a fellow pretty busy holdin' on, keepin' his place in the boat.

| | ++ "Wonder if CHARLEY writ all that 'ere," says I, inwardly, inquirin' of a boy where Mr. DANY'S particular holdin' out place might be, and givin' him three cents to show me the way.

" The well dressed individual, still holdin' onto the boy, then said to me: "My friend, I'me a merchant, doin' bizziness on Broadway, at 4-11-44.

"Holdin the name of the law!" For a moment there was silence.

"They have paid a fearful price for their folly," the old man said, solemnly; "but by thus dyin' they've ensured the holdin' of this fort, for there's not a man within the walls who wouldn't delight in drawin' his last breath at the post of duty rather than take the chances of sich protection as St. Leger has shown he's ready to give.

Wal, these I.W.W.'s an' their German bosses hev put it all over the early days when rustlin' cattle, holdin' up stage-coaches, an' jest plain cussedness was stylish.

" "I is a-holdin' on.

O' course I was sore the way you two left me holdin' the sack.

Yer kin allers fetch 'em with a red hankercher, and gin'rally by jist layin' down on yer back, and holdin' up yer feet.

They say they're holdin' up the city edition for the news, sorr.

I been a holdin' 'im all day't least ever sence they dressed 'im, purty nigh a' hour ago.

" An', sir, with that he stepped out to the end o' the po'ch, opened his book ag'in, an' holdin' up his right hand to'ards Sonny, settin' on top o' the bean-arbor in the rain, he commenced to read the service o' baptism, an' we stood proxieswhich is a sort

it 'u'd be thess ez well ef Sonny wasn't quite so quick to conterdic'; but it's thess his way of holdin' his p'int.

You know he's been seen holdin' conversation with dumb brutes, more 'n once-tin broad daylight.

Look at him holdin' to her hand.

Lays between our holdin's like the ham in a sandwich.

Then I leased my Dime Creek holdin's on royalties, an' that'll put me on my feet even ef this Golconda claim ain't all I think.

" "That wasn't no olive branch I was holdin' out," stated Nueces River.

"How long was you holdin' that contraption up over me?" "O-oh," she debated with herself, "a long, long time.

Where's the use of holdin' out any longer?

She's a capital hand to git money, she could always cry when she wanted to when she went to school, did it by holdin' her breath or sunthin'.

" "They's nothin' but sleep worth whileand goin' to sleep, holdin' your hand, lad" Buck Daniels dropped upon his knees and stared into the wide, dead eyes.

I kep' 'em there tight 'n' stiff, es ef the iron wus holdin' uv 'em.

"Sick o' holdin' in.