But sleep was impossible, for Muckle John got another fit of cursing He stood up by the door with his eyes blazing like a wild-cat's, and delivered what he called his "testimony."

For those pent-house brows and deep-set, wild-cat eyes were fixed for ever in my memory.

It was a mingling of the boyish treble of college cries and the menacing shriek of the wild-cat.

She resisted, and shrieked, and clawed like a wild-cat.

"That li'l' wild-cat of yours lost her head when I jollied her and Morse broke the door down like the jackass he is.

I know it will be saidI will not weary the House by arguing it, but I only desire to meet at once the objection that will be takenthat these councils will, if you take away the safeguard of the official majority, pass any number of wild-cat Bills.

The answer to that is that the head of the Government can veto the wild-cat Bills.

But so he did, and so he would if these gentlemen, whose numbers we propose to increase and whose powers we propose to widen, chose to pass wild-cat Bills.

You then again, and again contrary to my advice, embarked in perfect wild-cat affairs, which ended in ourI say 'our' heregetting severely scratched and mauled.

Wild-Cat, our Indian Falstaff in all save the cowardice and falsehood, I have already mentioned.

" Wild-Cat, too, the fat, jolly Wild-Cat, gave way to the most audible lamentations.

If I'm no Ormond, I like to find out why, and I love to dispute the Ormond claim which Walter Butler makeshe with his dark face and hair, and those dusky, golden eyes of his, which turn so yellow when I plague himthe mad wild-cat that he is.

Half an hour's walk brought them to the place where the wild-cat had buried his plunder.

As they approached the spot where the trap had been placed they held their guns in readiness, expecting to find the wild-cat secure.

But they were disappointed; every thing was just as they had left it, and there were no signs of the wild-cat having been about during the night.

Uncle Joe suddenly inquired, "Boys, did you bring in your trap that you set for that wild-cat?" They had not thought of it; they had been hunting nearly every day, enjoying rare sport, and they had entirely forgotten that they had a trap to look after.

Brave instantly discovered the wild-cat, and sprang toward him, uttering an angry growl.

The wild-cat crouched lower along the log, and his actions seemed to indicate that he intended to show fight.

A moment more and he could have seized him; but the wild-cat suddenly turned and sprang lightly into the air, and, catching his claws into a tree that stood full twenty feet distant, ascended it like a streak of light; and, after settling himself between two large limbs, glared down upon his foes as if he were already ashamed of having made a retreat, and had half a mind to return and give them battle.

But Frank gained rapidly on him; and when he reached the tree where the wild-cat had taken refuge, Archie was full twenty rods behind.

The wild-cat was glaring fiercely down upon the dog as if endeavoring to look him out of countenance; and Brave, seated on his haunches, with his head turned on one side, and his tongue hanging out of the side of his mouth, was steadily returning the gaze.

Frank followed after, with the wild-cat on his shoulder, the trap still hanging to his leg.

Cañon It was on February 22, Washington's Birthday, that Hal and I started in the early morning from Berkeley, for a trip to Wild-cat Cañon.

[Illustration: WILD-CAT CAÑON]

We reached home late in the afternoon, worn, and leg-weary, but well satisfied with our holiday in Wild-cat Cañon and the beautiful Berkeley hills.