"You know you are a very suspicious-looking gentleman." "Humph!" he chuckled.

"I think Rover intended to do him, though.

He squeezed himself past my legs very artfully!" "He did, the naughty dog," said Nellie, who, with Bob, had been much amused by the little incident.

"He's always doing it in London at the railway-stations whenever we go by the underground line; and papa says he wants to cheat the company.

He comes after us sometimes, and jumps into the railway-carriage where we are, when we think him miles away and safe at home! Did you ever hear of such a thing, aunt Polly ?" "No, dearie," she answered as they all stepped out briskly along the rather shaky suspension bridge connecting the pier with the shore, which oscillated under their feet in a way that made Mrs Gilmour anxious to get off it as quickly as she could to firm ground.