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"I couldn't have seen the man in you, Billy, then, any more than you could have seen the h I still stick to a part of inal articles of faith--I do believe that all reat many more hom I would not pal than there are those holish than another, or has read more and remembers it, only makes him a better man in that particular respect I think none the less of you because you can't quote Browning or Shakespeare--the thing that counts is that you can appreciate, as I do, Service and Kipling and Knibbs

"Nowand Service didn't write poetry, and soets you and me in the sa the case let's see if we can't rustle sorub, and then find a nice soft spot whereon to pound our respective ears"

Billy, deciding that he was too sleepy to work for food, invested half of the capital that was to have furnished the swell feed the night before in what two bits would purchase fro themselves beneath the shade of a tree sufficiently far froht not attract unnecessary observation, they slept until after noon

But their precaution failed to serve their purpose entirely A little before noon two filthy, bearded knights of the road clambered laboriously over the fence and headed directly for the very tree under which Billy and Bridge lay sleeping In the ht that had induced Billy Byrne and the poetic Bridge to seek this same secluded spot

There was in the stiff shuffle of therather familiar We have seen them before--just for a few minutes it is true; but under circumstances that impressed some of their characteristics upon us The very lastof the a railroad track, after proeance upon Billy, who had just trounced them

Now as they came unexpectedly upon the two sleepers they did not inize in the stupidly down on theht turn their discovery to their own advantage