" I laughed, my nerves tingling to the success of my rusehe had taken the tempting bait like a hungry fish.

so some man will read them, and swallow the bait and not feel the hook in his gills, or a truly good bank cashier who teaches Sunday school, and skips out for Canada some Saturday night, after the bank closes, and on Monday morning they find the combination of the lock on the safe changed, and when they hire a reformed burglar to open the lock the money is all gone with the cashier.

Only by holding the bait well toward the right side of his body was it possible to induce him to use the right hand.

It isn't a very science way of fishin', but it answers when a man is hungry, and hasn't got any bait or fly.

SEE SMITH, VICTOR C. TRAIN, ARTHUR C. Mr. Tutt tries live bait.

He saw that, though he offered the most tempting bait, we made no effort to move forward to snap it up, and doubtless came to the conclusion that we were chained to our positions by either dearth of numbers or military incapacity.

From the above description of this monkey's behavior, it seems fairly certain that with sufficient opportunity, under strong hunger, he would ultimately succeed in obtaining the bait by the use of two or more boxes.

And though a man cannot say he cozens you directly, yet any hostler within ten miles, should he be brought upon his book-oath, will affirm he hath laid a bait for you.

To what lengths might Mac not go if one dangled before him the priceless bait of a golden-tipped emperor goose, dressed in imperial robes of rose-flecked snow?

Even the noble souls, never wanting in history, who follow not a bait, but belief, see only in imperfect survey the connections and relations of their deeds.

The serene old animal was leisurely devouring the juicy bait that had lured him to his present prison.

Into this foaming torrent I threw my heavily leaded bait.

Odd if I don't find a bait-net, and a rod for myself, under the verandah.' 'You will, colonel.

We fix the bait so that a martin in getting at it, will have to go in between the rows of stakes, and displace the trap sticks, when down comes the pole upon him and crushes him to death.

After a few days, I found that whatever it was, understood the line as well as I did, for he took the range regular, and not only stole the bait, but ate up half a dozen martin, that had given me a claim on their hides by springin' my traps.

Three times he mounted one or another of the boxes when it was under the banana or nearly so, but in no case was it possible for him to reach the bait.

After he'd finished the bait, and found there warn't any more to be come at, he stretched himself on his belly along the ground, and began lickin' his paws, and passing them over his cheeks, as you've seen a cat do.

They'll manage to spring the trap and carry off the bait.

At four o'clock, while Appleboy was digging bait, he observed another motor making its wriggly way along the dunes.

"It gets into the crab traps," he says, "and eats all the bait.

Some capital sport must arise occasionally, when the sharks, which are here very numerous and large, gorge the bait; for, whenever this occurs, unless the angler cuts his line, (and that, as the shark is more valued by them than any other fish, he is often unwilling to do,) nothing can prevent his rude machine from following their track; and the fisherman is sometimes, in consequence, carried out a great distance to sea.

Erle Stanley Gardner (A); 2Dec60; R267134. Lifted bait.

I now replaced the bait and gave the monkey a second chance to obtain it.

But she was rich, and her money like charity covered a multitude of faults, and as soon as he saw the golden bait he caught at it, and they were married, for he was willing to do almost any thing for money, except work hard for it.

"Oh, yes, by the deadfallthat is by driving heavy sticks into the ground, and making a box-like place, open on one side, where two logs were so arranged with other heavy logs upon them, that when the bear seized the bait, the upper log fell down and crushed him to death.