This time, I'm darned if the old boozer hasn't sworn off! Tells the boys he's on to their game, and there's no liquor in this town that's good enough to get him to lose his vote--wouldn't get drunk on champagne.

He's held out for ten days already, and it looks like Winter'd take his cross all right on Thursday." "I guess I'd let him have it, Bingham," said Lorne Murchison with a kind of tolerant deprecation, void of offence, the only manner in which he knew how to convey disapproval to the older man.

"The boys in your division are a pretty tough lot, anyhow.

We don't want the other side getting hold of any monkey tricks." "It's necessary to win this election, young man," said Bingham, "lawfully.

You won't have any trouble with my bunch." It was not, as will be imagined, the first discussion, so late in the day, of the value of the preference trade argument to the Liberal campaign.