You saw, for instance, how I fell when I was set upon.

I made no resistance.

I did nothing to provoke an outbreak.

Oh dear no!' 'No, by the Lord Harry!' cried Dennis with a noisy laugh, 'you went down very quiet, Muster Gashford--and very flat besides.

I thinks to myself at the time "it's all up with Muster Gashford!" I never see a man lay flatter nor more still--with the life in him--than you did to-day.