It was his passionate outburst of revolt against life, whose drear talons seemed to have fastened themselves into his very soul, which had sent him out with murder in his brain to seek the man who had robbed him of the one thing which stood between him and despair; the pent-up fury of a lifetime which had tingled in his blood and had given him the strength of the navvy in those few minutes by the canal side.

It is a full length representation of the great engineer, in bronze, with the figures of four workmen, representing the chief industries of Tyneside, around the pedestala miner, a smith, a navvy, and an engineer.

In the Tarn and other French rivers the fish have been destroyed in a woeful manner by poison and dynamite, but it is the rock-blaster and the navvy, not the regular poacher, who is chiefly to be blamed for this.

You must not think that he is a navvy in fustian and corduroys.

'I didn't enlist as a blooming navvy,' grunted Roy Horan, who had stuck by Ken and Dave.

" "Navvy, look here," I said severely, "mucha no bueno!

But for a while, what with the roar and swell of the wind and Navvy's snores, I could hear it only at long intervals.

" "Come on, Navvy," shouted Emett.

He grasped the Indian's wrist and started to run, jerking Navvy into the air at every jump.

" Navvy broke from Emett at this juncture and ran away.

But Navvy thought Jones addressed the cougar.

"Whoa!" repeated Navvy.

For once Jim looked at Navvy with toleration.

"Mucha dam cougie," remarked Navvy.

And Jones kept repeating: "To think how Shep fooled me!" X Next morning Jones was out bright and early, yelling at Navvy to hurry with the horses, calling to the hounds and lions, just as usual.

Navvy had finally come to his full share of praise from all of us.

hurry!)" said Navvy, mimicking Jones that morning.

exclaimed Navvy.

While we hugged the fire, Navvy brought up the horses and gave them their oats.

"Bring them all, and all the packs, and Navvy, too.

XIII A strange procession soon emerged from Left Canyon and stranger to us than the lion heads bobbing out of the alfagoes was the sight of Navvy riding in front of the lions.

He did not catch the flesh, for when Navvy turned around he wore only an expression of curiosity.

Navvy gave us and the lions a wide berth, and walked to camp.

We ate while Navvy fed and saddled the horses.

And there, on the one stool which the place contained, sat a big, hulking fellow that looked like a navvy, whose rough clothes bore evidence of his having slept out in them, and whose boots were stained with the mud and clay which they would be likely to collect along the riverside.