Give him an ax maybe, and he hits one or two wallopin' licks with it and then stands and rests on the handle and starts to dreaming like a fool.

Do ye think," he appealed to his audience, "it would brak' his jaw if I gave him a bit lick across it?" He advanced a huge hand for inspection, and listened to the free advice given to try it, and the earnest assurances that it did not matter much if the jaw did break.

In the summer of 1903 a bunch of nine especially good rams visited a certain lick each day.

Mr. Winters was passing along the street, heard cries, looked up through the window that was hoisted, saw the boy whipping her, as much as forty or fifty licks, while he staid.

"Now, Toby, we must be putting in our best licks.

Game of many kinds thronged the spaces round the licks; herds of buffalo, elk, and deer, as well as bears and wolves, were all in sight at once.

The Boy plunged forward, caught the blow as it descended, and flung the arm aside, wrenched the girl free, and as Joe came on again, looking as if he meant business, the Boy planted a sounding lick on his jaw.

It wanted a lick of paint bad.

I never seen 'em whup none but dey tol' us we'd git twen'y-nine licks iffen we got caught by 'em.

I have myself seen small game licks, the largest not a hundred feet across, in the Selkirks, Coeur d'Alenes, and Bighorns, the ground all tramped up by the hoofs of elk, deer, wild sheep, and white goats, with deep furrows and hollows where the saline deposits existed.

She neber struck me a lick in her life, an' I belieb in praising de bridge dat carries me ober.

Why, he never studies a lick!

Then old Miss Sally would get a stick and make out she gwine kill us, but she wouldn't touch us a lick.

This put the man on his mettle and he "laid in his best licks," but soon reached his limit.

" When the party left this lick they followed a buffalo trail, beaten out in the forest, "the size of the wagon road leading out of Williamsburg," then the capital of Virginia.

"Certainly not." "But why not, Aunt Kate?"squirming as the puppy placed a long warm lick right below the knee.