"Fust-rate," "prime," "a prime article," "a superior piece of goods," "a handsome garment," "a gent in a flowered vest,"all such expressions are final.

a reward from a good lookin', beneverlent old gent like you, made a man of me, and to-day I'me President of a Society for the Penny-Ante corruption of good morrils,' and there hain't a judge in the city who wouldn't give me a home for the pleasure of my company.

Because there's some things that any gent with sense will always clear away from.

What was really wrong with meand you'll never know how it feels until you have a girl of your own, and she leaves youwas that I was jealous of the young gent for taking my girl when she was all I had.

"And I want to have a few important gents around town to be there to listen and hear what I got to say.

Well, I got into a little game of stud, and things were running pretty easy for me when a big gent across the table that had been losing hard and drinking hard ups and says he allows I sure have the cards talking.

"And yet," pursued the storekeeper, "think of a full-grown man breaking the law to save such a skinny little shrimp of a gent as Jig?

The question remains how he's got the old gent into the game, doesn't it?" Precisely the point to which the Sergeant's mind also had turned!

He says he'll make a gent of me, being as there would be only himself and Bucky and me left.

Never was a lazier gent than Bull.

" "Look here," said Ronicky, "you talk like a straight sort of a gent to me.

Tom blows his horn and trots off, followed by the pack, by the whips, by the young gents from Winchester, by the farmers of the neighbourhood, by the labourers of the parish on foot, with whom the day is a great holiday; Sir Huddlestone bringing up the rear with Colonel Crawley; and the whole train of hounds and horsemen disappears down the avenue, leaving little Rawdon alone on the doorsteps, wondering and happy.

"I can tell when I've hurt a gent by the way his face wrinkles up.

"Young gents at the school, sir," said the porter, perceiving from Mike's distrait air that the boy was a stranger to the place, "goes up in the bus mostly.

But" "And if any gents on hossback should drop in on you and ask questions just remember that what they dunno won't hurt 'em.

"And you can lay to this, lady, that, when a gent out of the West says 'partner' to a girl or a man, he means it.

Maybe you'd tell a judge that you knowed all these gents behind their masks, but they wouldn't be no way you could prove it!" A stir behind him was ample assurance that this simple point had escaped the cowpunchers.