The girls were amazed to see Randal come whistling up the road with his trousers tucked into his boots, blue mittens on his hands, and an unusual amount of energy in his whole figure, as he drove the oxen, while Saul laughed at his vain attempts to guide the bewildered beasts.

" "All of 'em worth about two cents retail," snorted Mittens with a bitter look at the False Hare.

" Drawing a leathern mitten from his belt, the youth held it to Crusoe's nose, and then threw it a yard away, at the same time exclaiming in a loud, distinct tone, "Fetch it.

This was done a second time, and Crusoe came forward with the mitten in his mouth.

It was another article of the Joppian creed, that there was no such thing possible as a purely Platonic friendship between a young man and a young woman; there must always be "something in it": either a mitten for him, or a disappointment for her, or wedding-cake for allgenerally and preferably, of course, the wedding-cake;and belonging to such friendship as lawfully as a tail belongs to a comet, was a great, wide-spreading area of gossip.

They had seen Peter smuggle Mittens into bed the second time, but had supposed he must have escaped and followed Betsy out.

Gloves will be made with separate compartments for the fingers, and few persons now wear the old-fashioned mitten at the opera.

[Illustration: Woman's Mittens of Elk skin] CHAPTER XXVII NEWS FROM THE ANADYR PARTYPLAN FOR ITS RELIEFTHE STORY OF A STOVE-PIPESTART FOR THE SEACOAST Immediately after our arrival at Anadyrsk we

Slowly he pulled his gloves out of his pocket, and turned out from each beaver gauntlet an inner mitten of knitted wool.

Then he put on two pairs of trousers, three coats, and an overcoat, two caps, several mufflers, and a pair of heavy mittens over a pair of gloves, and flew down the stairs and dived out into the storm like a Russian taking a plunge-bath in an icy stream.

My mother put up her mittens to her eyes, and my father looked as black as a peat hole.

"One moment," commanded Mittens in a very stern voice, "any plunder?" Growler, the mate, bowed low before his chief.