For ten minutes Thor paid no attention to the eight dogs yapping at his heels, except to pause now and then and swing his head about.

As he did so, the brooding silence was broken by the deep musical bark of a collie, followed by the sharp yap, yap of a fox-terrier.

They growled and yapped from the back benches.

"All the yaps out in that neighborhood are lining out for the spring plowing now while the yaps here are lining out for the spring millinery openings.

"It would not be natural for growing boys, alive to their fingertips, to sit yapping like lazy collie dogs, just thinking," said the young doctor heatedly.

Problems on short leashes yapped around her heels.

He never opened his yap about Marie being in that Keeleyville gang.