Then slowly spreading out his arms, so as to inclose the form of the stalwart woodsman, he brought them together like a vise, giving utterance at the same time to an exultant "whoop." "Yer days of thramping _this_ country, and alarming paceable inhabitants are done wid, Mister Anaconda.

So jist kaal over gracefully, say tin Ave Marias, and consider yourself in the hands of Gabriel sint for judgment." All this time Teddy had been straining and hugging at the hunter as if determined to crush him, while he, in turn, had taken it very coolly, and now spoke in his gruff bass voice: "Let go!" "Let go! Well now, that's impudint, ye varlet.

As if Teddy McFadden would let go hook and line, bob and sinker, whin he had got hold of a sturgeon.

Be aisy now; I'll squaze the gizzard and liver iv ye togither, if ye doesn't yield gracefully." "Let go, I say! Do you hear ?".
"Yis, I hears, and that is the extint--" Teddy's next sensation was as if a thunderbolt had burst beneath his feet, for he was hurled headlong full half a rod over the head of the hunter.

Though considerably bruised, he was not stunned by the fall, and quickly recovered.