But Schiff pointed reverently at the tear in the paper, as Dillon only went on pushing his sack deep down in his pocket, while Mac lifted the Examiner.

" Mac pointed out a rough knot-hole, too, that slyly held back a pinch of gold.

Mac began to think they might get dogs at Anvik, or at one of the Ingalik villages, a little further on.

They packed the Boy's sled and set off on the morning of the third, to Kaviak's unbounded surprise and disgust, his view of life being that, wherever Mac went, he was bound to follow.

Just eight days later the two men walked into the Cabin and sat downPotts with a heart-rending groan, Mac with his jaw almost dislocated in his cast-iron attempt to set his face against defeat; their lips were cracked with the cold, their faces raw from frostbite, their eyes inflamed.

" When Mac and the Boy brought the sled home a couple of days later, it was found that a portion of its cargo consisted of a toy kyak and two bottles of hootchino, the maddening drink concocted by the natives out of fermented dough and sugar.

And the Trio presently retired to the Little Cabin to discuss whether the Colonel didn't show favouritism to the Boy, and, when Mac was asleep, how they could get rid of Kaviak.

The morning after the ejection of Potts, and his unwilling reception at the Big Cabin, Mac and O'Flynn failed to appear for breakfast.

While his back was turned the Boy brought a tin plate, still in good condition, set it down at Mac's place, planted a nail on end in the middle, and with three blows from a hammer fastened the plate firmly to the board.

Kaviak, for ever following at Mac's heels "like a rale Irish tarrier," found his allegiance waver in these stirring, blissful days, if ever Farva so belied character and custom as to swing an axe for any length of time.

He said he was a modest man and didn't like it, and Mac, turning a little rusty under the gibe, answered: "Haven't you got the sense to see we've cut all the good timber just round here?"

"You can't help that," Mac chopped out.

Nor could anyone have anticipated that close-fisted Mac would give the Boy his valuable aneroid barometer and compass, or that Potts would be so generous with his best Virginia straight-cut, filling the Colonel's big pouch without so much as a word.

" "Call it an expedition to Anvik," urged Mac.

" "So do the Sour-doughs," said Mac.

"They look as if they thought it'd be a picnic," says Mac, grimly.

As he took Mac's aneroid barometer out of his pocket, a sudden gust cut across his raw and bleeding cheek.

John x. 22; 1 Mac.

[Illustration] Upton says, "the child" in this incident is meant for M'Mahon, of Ireland, and that "Mac Mahon" means the "son of a bear.

Megilp, sprung from a race which has supplied the world with a large share of its versatility of talent and its adventurous proclivities, was familiarly known at Gruyère's as "Mac."

if they had left me but a Van or a Mac, or an Irish O', it had been something to qualify it.

Mynheer Van Hogsfleshor Sawney Mac Hogsflesh,or Sir Phelim O'Hogsflesh,but downright blunt.

In 1173 the death of Mulmurry Mac-Murrough is recorded; as also of Dermot O'Kaelly, from whom the family name of Kelly is derived; but I do not find any notice of the daughter of Dermot MacMurrough.

ORLAN, PIERRE MAC, pseud.

With this view he instanced the two estates of Mr. Mac Mahon and of Dr. Mapp in the island of Barbadoes.