"I'm afraid she's indolent," sighed her mother; "there's Linnet now, she's as spry as a cricket"

" "You's mighty spry for an old man yit," she protested.

There he goes, a trifle short and stout, spry on his feet, with a light, full beard, eight or ten years older than herself.

The fust night when you brung her here I named it to her that she was pretty well along in years, and she'd better be spry about gettin' her hooks on a man, or she was left.

And then pretty soon after, a yearling that was just theexcuse methat was awful spry at dodging, led me a chase, the pony stopped stiff-legged when the steer did, and while I was leaning one way he was off after the steer the other way so quick that I just naturally slid off.

At them Spry in mild amaze (Literally) bent his gaze, Sighed, and then without a word Wandered homeward with the third.