Suppressing my fears, I soon discovered that although as hairy as bears and as crooked as summit pines, the strange creatures were sufficiently erect to belong to our own species.

"Mr. Ware isn't the first man in the world who has funked the limelight, and from what I can see of him it probably wasn't his fault if things did go a little crooked in the past.

I'll remember that when I'm getting in touch with other points, and find out if there's any aviator who's gone crooked of late.

An' there's nothing crooked about Lacey's wheel, either.

Because he's crooked, because we know he's crooked; because he played crooked with me.