Not with my leave.

Boys, which, of you will take the honour of being chair-bearers?
I have my gun to care for." "I will be one," said Preston.
"And Ransom will be the other.

Come, sir!" "Honour!"-- said Ransom as he moved sullenly forward.

"I think girls ought to stay at home when there is anything going on.

They are plaguily in one's way!" "That is a very womanish speech," said the doctor; "in so far as that it is very unmanly." Ransom's temper nowise improved by this reply, he took up sulkily his ends of the chair poles; and once more the party set forward.