Two or three small outlying rifle pits had to be taken before the Division could proceed with its effort to drive the enemy out of Sheria and protect the flank of the 60th Division, which had to cross the railway where a double line of trenches was to be tackled, the rear line above the other with the flank well thrown back and protected by small advanced pits to hold a few men and machine guns.

The Man Tackled Pa.

" Well, I just had time to put the monkey back in the cage when I saw that couple surround pa, and the woman grabbed the baby out of his arms, and the man tackled pa around the legs below the knee, and threw pa down under the ostrich cage, and said: "You kidnaper!

[Illustration: The Man Tackled Pa.]

I thought it would be fun, but when I started and every last man gave me a cut across the end of my back with a hickory switch, I yelled murder, and run between the giant's legs and tackled him like football I toppled him over against the next man, and that man hit the giant in the stomach, and everybody began to fight, and the festivities broke up.

"And the Arithmetic?" "Oh, I haven't tackled that yet.

"It brought her heart into her mouth, I tell you," the simple fellow told Ajax, and later Ajax murmured to me: "I wonder whether it struck Angela that Jim would have tackled both of 'em, if Thorpe had not interfered.

what a soft job that was compared to what I've tackled out here!"

When I tackled Sultan I had my hand covered with it.

Maybe they had sneaked in the cellar for a nap, or to steal, leaving the door open, and Big Bob tackled them.

One man struggled with Narayan Singh and kept him busy with his bulk so wedged across the opening that Grim and Hadad were as good as demobilized out in the corridor; and the other two tackled me like a pair of butchers hacking at a maddened bull.

He's a master-hand at readin'; and when he heard that your remarks on Dr. Mayhew had come out, Seth tackled up o' purpose and come up to Newport to get them, and spent all his time, last winter, studyin' on it and makin' his remarks; and I tell you, Sir, he's a tight fellow to argue with.

He came at once to Our Square and tackled the Little Red Doctor.

And each time we tackled him we got a different idea of the KING'S movementsHIS MAJESTY must have had an extraordinarily complex journey that day.

There are supposed to be two ways to tackle, but the coach who was conducting the operations to-day undoubtedly believed in the existence of at least thrice that number; for each candidate for Varsity honors tackled the dummy in a totally different style.

When he tackled some intricate passage in an Epistle, it was at times a little hard to follow him, especially as his utterance tended to be hesitating; but when he had finished, one saw that a broad clear road had been cut through the thicket, and that the daylight had been let in upon what before had been dim.

Having done this, and received the hospitalities of our hostess, we tackled up our teams, and pursued our way back to the fort, having narrowly escaped breaking through the river at one or two points. 27th.

While all this was going on the men at the listening-post had tackled the job of driving their sap out to the German General.

For once in his life Mr. Hyde looked upon these tools with favor, and energetically tackled the business end of a "Number 2."

This is the biggest thing I ever tackled and it means a lot to memore than you imagine.

But in spite of that and driven by righteous anger, he would again have tackled the enemy had not the voice of Grace Hooper checked him: "Oh, let him go; let him go!"

Monday, the third, Elizabeth and I tackled the provisions which were piled high on the table in the servants' hall.

"I grabbed him by the heels when he tackled the lion, and I gave him a sling somewheres," replied Jim.

In both cases I thought the operations were more the result of a wakeful night and an I-must-do-something decision than anything else, and I tackled both with a shiver; but when she told me to sell them out at a time I thought they looked like going higher and the next day they slumped, I could not help thinking about the destiny that shapes our ends.

Determined not to be baffled, I moved out of the square into the shelter of a roadside tree, on the principle that a distant view would be better than none at all, but the police were on the alert, and a police lieutenant tackled me at once.