At the nearer table, a weazened little man bent eagerly over a pictorial paper; at the farther, chalking their cues, stood two players, one a sturdy Englishman with a gray moustache, the other a lithe, graceful person, whose blue coat, smart as an officer's, and swarthy but handsome face made him at a glance the most striking figure in the room.

The weazened reader rose in a nervous flutter, underwent his introduction to Rudolph with as much bashful agony as a school-girl, mumbled a few words in German, and instantly took refuge in his tattered Graphic.

The wrinkled face was Wutzler's, but his weazened body was lost in the glossy black folds of a native jacket, and below the patched trousers, his bare ankles and coolie-sandals of straw moved uneasily, as though trying to hide behind each other.

I asked, with my hat off for her and for the Imp, whose strange little weazened face I now saw looking over my tall love's shoulders.

He was a little weazened man of middle age, with a short grizzled beard.

That is true, so far as the satyr is concerned; for a more weazened, unlovely personality would be hard to find.

" "But how can it be that Bill-Man speaks our tongue?" demanded a little weazened old hunter,"Bill-Man, upon whom never before our eyes have rested?" "Bill-Man has been other times in the Snow Lands," Aab-Waak answered, "else would he not speak the speech of the Bear People, which is like the speech of the Hungry Folk, which is very like the speech of the Mandells.

" "Mayhap they, too, are unafraid, being great fighters," the weazened little old hunter objected.

"I did but look in, and the dead were piled like seals on the ice after a killing!" "Did I not say, mayhap, they were fighters?" cackled the weazened old hunter.

The little weazened old man coughed and sat down.

Hal Purvis leaned his weazened face towards the ground.

It was a shriveled up little chap, with a weazened face that looked like a sun-dried apple.

" His face shadowed; Adelaide, glancing round for the cause, saw Simeon, half-sitting, half-standing in the doorway, humble apology on his weazened, whiskered face.

" In his place on the cover of a barrel of dried apples, Bud Smith, the weazened little land man, shifted as though the seat hurt him.

The stranger turned a little weazened yellow face and grinned at him familiarly.

Dade uncoiled his riata with aimless, fumbling fingers and swung the noose facetiously toward the bottle, uptilted over the eager mouth of a weazened little Irishman.

" "Two pounds a week!" cried the old woman, her eyes shining out of her weazened old face like two grouse eggs in a nest.

He was a slender, weazened man, nervous, irritable, high-strung, and anaemica typical child of the gutter, with unbeautiful twisted features, small eyes, with face and mouth perpetually and feverishly hungry, brutish in a catlike way, stamped to the core with degeneracy.