"I'll send you word when to come down to the landing and see your father go off to jail." "I never saw such independence exhibited by a fellow in his circumstances," said Lester, as he and Bob rode away together.

"One would think he was worth a million dollars." "He thinks he will soon be worth a hundred and fifty, and that's what ails him," answered Bob, whose face was pale with fury.

"But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip, as he will find before he is many days older.

I'll tell my father to-night what Godfrey Evans did, and as soon as it grows dark we'll go down to that cabin and carry off all the birds we can catch.

The rest we will liberate." A part of this programme was duly carried out.