Get a smile on your face and make the best of it." Still savage of spirit, though rapidly toning down, the king shook hands and flung out of the room.

Before the door could close on his heels, a loose-jointed Yankee shambled in, thrust a moccasined foot to the side and hooked a chair under him, and sat down.
"Say," he opened up, confidentially, "people's gittin' scairt over the grub proposition, I guess some." "Hello, Dave.

That you ?" "S'pose so.

But ez I was saying there'll be a lively stampede fer the Outside soon as the river freezes." "Think so ?" "Unh huh." "Then I'm glad to hear it.

It's what the country needs.