He hazarded a guess with that mention of the I.W.W.

There'll be a fight, if I don't miss my guess.

I ventured a guess that the construction of the lock type of canal would approach $300,000,000, and without stopping to consider that the same causes which led to an increase in cost over the original estimates for the lock canal must affect equally the sea-level type, the advocates of the latter argued that the excess of the new estimates was an additional reason why the lock type should be abandoned in favor of the sea-level canal.

When Bill Cavers got drunk, and spent in one grand, roaring spree all the money which he and his wife and Libby Anne had saved for their trip to Ontario, there were those who said that he went through six hundred dollars that one night, making a rough guess at the amount.

"It must be noon by that sign," went on the Little Captain, confirming her guess by a glance at her watch.

A HAND VI THE WOMAN IN THE CASE VII ROGERS GETS A SHOCK VIII PRECAUTIONS IX GUESSES AT THE RIDDLE X PREPARATIONS XI

He's another deep one or I lose my guess.

"All this while," she continues, "I don't think any one could have given the remotest guess at what passed in my mind, or have given me credit for a single serious thought.

The action is so cleverly governed and guided in its course that we remain in a state of constant curiosity as to what is going to happen, and we are utterly unable to form a guess; so that between eagerness and surprise our interest is kept active; and as we are pleasantly entertained, we do not notice the lapse of time.

" "Try Beulah, now," interrupted the mother, who, while she too doted on her youngest child, had an increasing respect for the greater solidity and better judgment of her sister: "let us hear Beulah's guess.

But what took our eyes more than aught else was a great superstructure which had been built upward from her rails, almost half-way to her main tops, and this, as we were able to perceive, was supported by ropes let down from the yards; but of what material the superstructure was composed, I have no knowledge; for it was so over-grown with some form of green stuffas was so much of the hull as showed above the weedas to defy our guesses.

Or dost thou guess, in the dark, merely because of the envy that consumes thee?"

But while the noise rose and fell, Potts drawled a "Guess he means to go that way!"

But when he came to examine sections, he would find his reasonable guess utterly wrong.

You can frame no guesses about it from either my speaking or writing; and, supposing I should attempt to show it you, I know no other way.

Do I hit about the same guess that you do, Frank?"

Then there is the "Hottest Sunday in the Park," which comes up a month later, when you increase the park policeman's former guess by fifteen thousand, and give it a news value by adding a list of the small boys drowned in bathing.

I kind o' guess, if Mr. Woods was down in the Bay, 'render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsars,' wouldn't be doctrine to be so quietly received by every congregation.

For such questions as that we need the subtlest guesses of all.

Various, however, are the derivations, and numerous the guesses made about them.

Some sweet bourne your haste confesses Know you paths no other guesses?

If a man really wrote down on paper his candid opinion of himself, he'd have a good case for slander against the publisher who printed itI guess.

The speaker was a girl of perhaps twenty, although she had one of those quiet reserved faces which render difficult a correct guessing of the age.

"Our guesses" he replied, "have been remarkably fortunate."

] Guests were often formerly spelt guess, whether it were or were not necessary for the rhyme.