Bot watir manis thurst to quench.

Hunger & thurst, hete & chele, Ecthe and all unhelthe, Durh deth com on this midelard, And other uniselthe.

The Return of Thurst Tilly XXXIII.

But Thurst Tilly had a way of saying and doing quite his own, "Never see any one knocked so flat as you was," said he.

"That air gal had a mighty power in her eye," Thurst went on.

At length the drove was reduced to one section; Trove following with the helper named Thurston Tilly, familiarly known as "Thurst.

Then Thurst, knocking loudly, gave out a wild yell or two, peered in at the nearest window, and came at last to his chair, sorrowful and much out of breath, his tale unfinished.

That done, Trove and Thurst Tilly took the main road to Cleveland, whence they were to return home by steamboat.

" "If you've no objection I'd like to go with you," said Thurst Tilly.

"Drove horses all my life," said Thurst; whereupon they made a bargain.

XXXII The Return of Thurst Tilly Trove sat in council with Mary and Theron Allen.

"Beg yer pardon," said Thurst, turning, as they sat down, "are you armed?"

" "Well, Thurst, go on with your story.

We were working near the road that day Thurst Miles came galloping out of the woods, waving his cap at us.

Thurst Miles of my own neighborhood had come to enlist shortly after D'ri

In June we went with General BrownD'ri and I and Thurst Miles and Seth Alexander and half a dozen othersdown the river to the scene of our first fighting at Ogdensburg, camping well back in the woods.

Thurst had travelled the forest from Albany to Sackett's Harbor, and was the best hunter that ever trod a trail in my time.

"An' you?" said the landlord, turning to Thurst.

," said Thurst.

Thurst knew a trail that crossed the river near by and met the Caraway Pike a few miles beyond.

Having eaten, I wrote a despatch to be taken back by Thurst as soon as we reached the pike.

Past ten o'clock we turned into a rough road, where the three of us went one way and Thurst another.