My word! The men of this country must be good sprinters!" "Inhabitants evidently arboreal," I grimly suggested.

"Civilized and still arboreal--peculiar people." "You shouldn't have tried that way," Jeff protested.

"They were perfectly friendly; now we've scared them." But it was no use grumbling, and Terry refused to admit any mistake.
"Nonsense," he said.

"They expected it.

Women like to be run after.