"You're hurting me." "Good enough!" chuckled Dick.

"Keep on at his arms until he can talk a whole lot more." "But isn't it cruel ?" asked a girl.
"No," rejoined Tom Reade, turning to her.

"Did you ever bring a drowning man to ?" "Never, of course." "Then let our Dick have his way.

He generally knows what he's about.

No rudeness intended you understand," Reade added, smiling.
"This lad's all right, now," declared Hiram Driggs.