he asked, as though he suspected Mac of wearing it for show.

" "No, but you've tried hard enough for five or six days to get Mac to the point where he would come out and show us how to whip-saw.

"No I'll side with Mac on that subject.

"Oh, you mustn't do that!" said the priest to Mac with unexpected severity.

"I've supplied the decorations," said Mac in a final tone.

Not a bit of it, he was too excited to realise his danger, but Pat fortunately interposed his horse and spear in time, and no doubt saved poor Mac from a gruesome mauling.

I won't rile Mac for the sake of any Jesuit alive.

It was the base Byron, tipping the wink to Mac out of the back of the bunk, that betrayed Kaviak.

"Friends" (the Boy thought the keen eyes rested a fraction of a moment longer on Mac than on the rest),"I think in some ways this is the pleasantest House-Warming I ever went to.

* "Look here, Boy," said Mac at supper, "I said I wouldn't eat off this plate again.

"Yes." "Well, you'd just better have a talk with Mac about it.