"It was very 'ard on Henery Walker, I must say that.

Then they started pitying themselves, looking very 'ard at the back of old Sam while they did it.

aven't I got enough to bear but you must make it 'arder for me?'

Well, it was to be 'oped that th' A'mighty wouldn't be 'ard with him, not but what he was 'ard enough, Martin was, wi' other folks.

[Illustration: The Liz-ard in the sun's warm rays De-lights to bask on summer days.]

The second year it was ill twice, but the horse-doctor that George Barstow got for it said that it was as 'ard as nails, and with care it might live to be twenty.

Halfway through, the wind hauled to the north 'ard of northwest, the glass dropped to 28.88, and he turned and ran before a gale of cyclonic fury, missing, by a hair's breadth, piling up the Mary Rogers on the black-toothed rocks.

"So you don't 'ave to be no-wise back-ard about keepin' the money, Miss Anthea.

Every now and then he'd look over 'is shoulder and give a shout, and then run 'arder than afore.

I was 'ard up 'ere in Papeete once, and was sleepin' in an ole ware'ouse along with others.