Then he hit pa a swat with his foot, and wound his tail around pa's neck, and laid his head on pa's shirt bosom, and was seasick.

The descent into the Swat Valley is not nearly so easy; beasts of burden as well as foot passengers have to pick out their way, but a company of Bengal or Madras sappers would in a few hours clear all difficulties sufficiently well to allow a mule battery to keep up with infantry.

The Swat river is about 50 feet wide, from three to four deep, and flush with its banks.

He had sent letters to Asmar, Chitral, Swat, and Bijour, urging on the people to track out the Kafirs who were in company with the Meagans, and destroy them, as they could have gone with no other purpose than to spy out the land.

He believed he was right in saying that no Englishman before Mr. McNair had ever visited the Swat Valley.

The seal which Mr. McNair had exhibited to the meeting was of Babylonian workmanship, and although relics of the same class were of no great rarity in Persia and Mesopotamia, it was a curious circumstance to find one in such a remote locality as the Swat Valley, and could only be explained by supposing it to have belonged to one of Alexander's soldiers who brought it from Babylon.

In 1883 Mr. McNair, disguised as a Mahomedan doctor, succeeded in reaching the outlying valleys of Kafiristan, travelling by way of the Swat Valley and Chitral.

Major Biddulph had visited Chitral, but Mr. McNair had not only reached that town by way of the Swat river and Dir, but crossed the mountains to the west, which divide the valley of the Kashkar or Chitral river from that of the Arnawai.

You swat the horn quickly on the end with your hand.

SWATTING THE SPY III.

SWATTING THE SPYCONTINUED IV.

CHAPTER II SWATTING THE SPY

"If he's a spy, we'll swat him all right," I said.

"We'll more than swat him," Mr. Ellsworth said, and I could see by the look in his eye that he meant business.

CHAPTER III SWATTING THE SPYCONTINUED

We didn't swat him in that chapter because I had to go to supper, but we'll surely swat him in this one.

We didn't swat him in that chapter because I had to go to supper, but we'll surely swat him in this one.

But I didn't say a word till I got right close to them, then I gave Westy a good swat with my reed paddle.

you terror, or I'll just swat you one alongside your jaw.

The next morning Shere Ali travelled northwards and forty-eight hours later from the top of the Malakand Pass he saw winding across the Swat valley past Chakdara the road which reached to Kohara and there stopped.

"It was reckoned that there were fourteen thousand men from the Swat Valley besieging us, and as they did not mind how many they lost, even with the Maxims and our wire defences it was difficult to keep them off.

He crept out of the tower after nightfall with his water-skins, crawled down between the sangarsand I can tell you the hill-side was thick with themto the brink of the Swat river below there, filled his skins, and returned with them.

You don't want to think I haven't any just because I don't stand there and make a long speech to the ball before swatting it.

THE FABLE OF THE EX-CHATTEL AND THE AWFUL SWAT THAT WAS WAITING FOR THE COLONEL

and there is no ice visible in Flanders; he speaks about typhoid to the medical corps which calls it enteric; and "fly-swatting" is a new word to the sanitarians, who are none the less busily engaged in that noble art.