In spite of that, this personage made a run and a bound, and, half leaping, half scrambling, got his head and shoulders over the door, and there oscillated, till Little grabbed him with both hands, and drew him powerfully in, and admonished him.

"That is a foolhardy trick, sir, begging your pardon." "Young man," panted the invader, "do you know who you're a-speaking to ?" "No.

The Emperor of China ?" "No such trash; it's Ben Bolt, a man that's bad to beat." "Well, you'll get beat some day, if you go jumping in and out of trains in motion." "A many have been killed that way," suggested a huge woman in the corner with the meekest and most timid voice imaginable.
Mr.Bolt eyed the speaker with a humorous voice.

"Well, if I'm ever killed that way, I'll send you a letter by the post.

Got a sweetheart, ma'am ?" "I've got a good husband, sir," said she, with mild dignity, and pointed to a thin, sour personage opposite, with his nose in a newspaper.