You keep mum about that little affair, young'un, and I'll do you a good turn yet, see if I don't!" "All right; don't you forget!" whispered Peter.

'Twas for setting a bird free of its cage, a small matter methinksthough there be birdsand birds, but mum for that!

" "That's understood, and we're as mum as a couple of clams," Jack told him; and so they separated, little dreaming at the moment what a remarkable series of circumstances were fated to arise that would bring them together for the carrying out of an enterprise greater than anything as yet recorded in the annals of aerial exploits.

I had earlier received elaborate instructions on the phone from my dad on how I was to get to Girgaum once I got off the bus at Dadar and backup information from my nervous Mum on what I should do in case I got lost.

The next day, I accompanied my mum to Panjim where she showed me a few essential places and then left me on my own.

Mum at the mum houses and other places; and molly, a drink of Barbadoes, by chance at some Barbadoes merchants'.

We must manage to keep it mum from her, and as soon as I get the girl I'll accept the lieutenancy, and be off to the wars till all blows over.

By nature as cheerful a gossip as ever wore a scratch wig and lived to be inquisitive, he sat mum through the evening, and barely listened while the landlord talked big of his guest upstairs, his curricle and fashion, the sums he lost at White's, and the plate in his dressing-case.