Yesterday, as it seemed, Soo-ti was a young dog, capable of holding his own for frolics and spirits with any Pekinese that ever owned the crown of the road and refused to stir from it though all the hooters of Europe endeavoured to blast him off it.

" Bertie broke into his gay boyish laugh and sounded the hooter for sheer lightness of heart.

Just then a hooter from the Great Brewery announced five o'clock.