Pap Himes had stumped into the room during the latter part of this conversation.

Louise was reading in the hammock, and merely glanced at the little man, who solemnly stumped around to the back door with the three red volumes tucked underneath his arm.

" McNutt stumped from the barn.

Good day to ye, miss," he repeated, and stumped quickly to the buggy awaiting him.

" He stumped away, but on his return preferred to let Kate carry the soiled, torn envelope up to the young folks.

With these reflections he stumped downstairs, and seated himself on the black, oaken settle in the hall to await the boy's advent.

" He stumped off.

The same is said to happen to Scabiosa, or Devil's bit, and some other plants, as valerian and greater plantain; the new fibrous roots rising round the caudex above the old ones, the inferior end of the root becomes stumped, as if cut off, after the old fibres are decayed, and the caudex is drawn down into the earth by these new roots.

Smithson stumped up very handsomely at the last General Election, and the Conservatives are not strong enough to be ungrateful.

"Some people have no idea of their rank as a captain's daughter," she related indignantly, and stumped out of the room.

He stumped up to the table without speaking and there at once caught sight of the old brown coat.

And with no word more the old labourer stumped across the room, opened wide the double window that looked on the Tuileries gardens and, flashing back over his shoulder one look that was full of scorn, stumped away up through the air at an angle of forty degrees.

And with no word more the old labourer stumped across the room, opened wide the double window that looked on the Tuileries gardens and, flashing back over his shoulder one look that was full of scorn, stumped away up through the air at an angle of forty degrees.

Mr. Max Beerbohm, I remember, professed to understand the first two forms of popular wit, but said that the third quite stumped him.

" He stumped away, and in the failing evening light Juliet began to gather up the confusion he had left behind.

My Brigade Major stumped into H.Q. one afternoon looking pretty grim.

This rather stumped the detective, who was acting on the charge of some one else, and he started off, remarking that the business wasn't done yet, and the best thing the boy could do was to confess.

They conversed in low tones as they stumped up the stairs and I heard the sergeant say something about 'an awful suck in.'

Good morning,' and he stumped out, followed by his subordinate.

He bowed in silence, and stumped down the steps with his stick.

I was stumped a bit at first where I had seen him; then all at once it came to mehe was the guy sitting out there alone in the automobile over on Arch Street.

Instinctive knowledge told him he had "stumped" his toe.

Why did you take Mrs. Gilkie's chicken?" Cephas was stumped, and he stood before the majesty of the law, rubbing his head and looking ashamed of himself.

And the very next morning, at two o'clock, up he stumped on his lame foot to Carl's room, in which there was light, sure enough, and went in without knocking.

Then old Dimsdale, the butler, who was standing in the doorway that led to the servants' quarters, stumped forward and made reply.