They may readily be destroyed with sealing whacks.

When within a few feet, Jack gave a sudden whack on the board and cried, sternly: "Halt!

He looked pretty tough, but one thing, anyway, he smiled an awful nice kind of a smile and hit me a whack on the shoulder and said: "Don't get excited, Skeezeks; you're all right and I won't hurt you.

" Then, he whistled to the mules, flourished his whip, and to a persistent accompaniment of whacks and whistles we went crawling up the hill.

The mahout, or elephant-driver, tried in vain to check the rush of the frightened brute, but after repeated sounding whacks on the head he got her to stop, and again turn round.

As we tore through the tangled dense green patair, the broad leaves crackled like crashing branches, the huge elephants surged ahead like ships rocking in a gale of wind, and the mahouts and attendants on the pad elephants, shouted and urged on their shuffling animals, by excited cries and resounding whacks.

To the intense astonishment of the beast he rode, there came new vigor into the whacks which fell upon his flanks; and the beast allowed astonishment to surprise him into real life and decided motion.

" "Slate," cried Joe, slapping the tragic bookkeeper a whack, "you're inspiring!"

"Well?" A pause of further moral descent, and a whack against an obstacle.

Forty whacks, by Daniel G. Mainwaring, pseud.

Forty whacks, by Daniel G. Mainwaring, pseud.

Forty whacks, by Daniel G. Mainwaring, pseud.

Forty whacks, by Daniel G. Mainwaring, pseud.

So he knew the golden maxim: "He who eyes his man best whacks him.

No sooner was this done than the raibar took the sack on his head and carried it to the bank of a river and having given it two or three hearty whacks with his stick threw it into the water.

" Seizing the two ends of his garment he advanced towards the dog with the contortions and bounds of a wrestler; the animal, knowing this of old, endeavoured to escape through the nearest door, but the Tato, cutting off his retreat, drove him into the nave, and, pretending to pursue him, drove him from chapel to chapel, finally rounding him up where he could give him some good sound whacks.

All the assistance he required from others was to urge on his beast, and by the application of sundry whacks and thumps, he soon got a-head.

But violent threshings and whacks from the tree-top absolutely assured me that I was neither dreaming nor out of my head.

" [Illustration: "Whacks to Receive.

"Get a move on you!" (Whack.)

"What are you doing in the middle of the road there?" (Whack.)

(Whack, whack.)

(Whack, whack.)

"Guess I'll take another whack at her," he concluded, starting to cross the stream.

I had something under my arm that would sway and whack the side of the horse every leap he made.