H'rah for the news!" He waved his hand wildly.

"Old red, white, and blue! American eagle now kindly proceed to scream! Starspangled banner intends streaming to all the trade winds! Sea to sea! Glorious victories on political thieving exhibition--no, expedition! Everybody not responsible for the trouble to go and get himself patriotically killed!" "What do you mean ?" "Water!" said the other, feebly.

Tom brought the pitcher, and Crailey, setting his hot lips to it, drank long and deeply; then, with his friend's assistance, he tied a heavily moistened towel round his head.
"All right very soon and sober again," he muttered, and lay back upon the pillow with eyes tightly closed in an intense effort to concentrate his will.

When he opened them again, four or five minutes later, they had marvellously cleared and his look was self-contained and sane.
"Haven't you heard the news ?" He spoke much more easily now.

"It came at midnight to the Journal." "No; I've been walking in the country." "The Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande on the twenty-sixth of last month, captured Captain Thornton and murdered Colonel Crook.