In a frantic effort to forget its hollowness it takes to ping-pong, parchesi and progressive euchre, and seeks to lose itself and find solace and consolation in tiddle-dy-winks.

That is to say, purely for business reasonsfor what he got out of it and the standing that it gave himhe attended the Rising Star Mission and also frequented Hudson House, the social settlement where Miss Fanny Duryea taught him to play ping-pong and other exciting parlor games, and read to him from books adapted to an American child of ten.

Someone having pulled him out and wiped him down, he was understood to remark that he would have preferred longer notice, as it had been his intention that night to achieve a decisive victory in the Flight ping-pong tournament.

Prince Giglio's bag, the fairy's gift, Helped him to right the wrong, Encouraged diligence and thrift, And "opened with a pong;" But though its magic powers were great It could not quite ejaculate A word so proud and strong And beautiful as Beeyah-byyah-bunniga-nelliga-jong.

One Chong Pong, detected in the very act of shutting up a pig in his drawing-room, and then firing a train, was indicted on a charge of arson.

It was probably Pong, that primitive black and white depiction of a ping-pong table, with a square on either side of the screen representing the bat and a tiny white dot representing the ball.

It was probably Pong, that primitive black and white depiction of a ping-pong table, with a square on either side of the screen representing the bat and a tiny white dot representing the ball.

Was it because you had always wanted an effective simulation of ping-pong?

Full-rigged ship, the Ping-Yan, sailing out of Ping Pong, French Cochin China, and cleared for Hoo-Ra, Indo-Arabia.

No American citizens on board, but one American citizen with ticket left behind on wharf at Ping Pong.

SEVERAL PHILOSOPHERS XXV THE DISQUIETING END OF PONG XXVI DEPPINGHAM FALLS ILL XXVII THE TRIAL OF VON BLITZ XXVIII CENTURIES TO FORGET XXIX

Seizing the opportunity to vent her feelings upon one who could understand, even as she poured soothings upon the insulted Pong, whom she clasped in her arms, Lady Agnes transformed the unlucky Saunders into a target for a most ably directed volley of wrath.

She dropped Pong without another word, and, her face quite serious, seated herself upon the big trunk which he selected.

Pong howled all night long, but his howls were as nothing compared to the screams of night birds in the trees close by.

"Mr. Saunders, will you be good enough to ask Bromley to take Pong out for a walk?"

Pong, the red cocker, attended the session and twice snarled at Mr. Saunders, for no other reason than that it is a dog's prerogative to snarl when and at whom he chooses.

" "You might as well say that Agnes ought to feel set up because Pong has a nice coat.

Browne says your hair is more beautiful than Pong's.

That's quite a compliment, Titian never even dreamed of hair like Pong's.

XXV THE DISQUIETING END OF PONG Later on, he and Deppingham visited the underground chamber, accompanied by Mr. Britt.

"Of course," said Chase philosophically, "it's much better that Pong should have got it than Lord Deppingham.

Drusilla declined and Bromley tossed a sandwich to Pong, who was always lying in wait for such scraps as might come his way.

In any event, Pong, the red cocker, was dead.

I mentioned Pong and the servants.

2. Ping-pong is lawn tennis in miniature, with a few modifications.