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"No such luck," Mr Penrose growled at hiood idea to cut in two everything you're told in this country and then divide it"

Mr Penrose was so hard on Hicks that Mr Appel interposed quickly: "Do they ever coht, Cookie?"

"So I have been informed," Mr Hicks replied, conservatively

Pinkey was about to say that bears travelled ht than in daytime, when Mr Appel declared that he intended to sleep in the sleeping bag he had brought with him but which Mrs Appel had not permitted him to use because she felt nervous alone, in her teepee

Mrs Appel protested against Mr Appel thus recklessly exposing hier but Mr Appel was mulish in the matter

"If, by chance, one should coood look at him I may never have another such opportunity"

"If you want to take your life in your hands, well and good"

So, after supper, Mr Appel unrolled his sleeping bag and spread it on a level spot not far froon Then he kissed Mrs Appel, who turned her cheek to hi

The talk of bears had made Aunt Lizzie Philbrick so nervous that as an extra precaution she pinned the flap of her tent down securely with a row of safety-pins and Mr Stott not only slept in more of his clothes than usual but put a pair of brass knuckles under his pillow

These brass knuckles had been presented to Mr Stott by a grateful client for whoes fro ejected from a saloon six months prior to the date upon which he had fallen off the car step

Brass knuckles and a convenient length of lead-pipe were favourite weapons with the clientele which gave to the waiting room of Mr Stott's law office an odour reht was a dark one, so dark in fact that old Mr Penrose felt so off to sleep by hi to his unfortunate habit of snoring so loud as to be beyond anything huliuide hih the brush to his rag residence His thoughts were not so much of four-footed visitors as of footpads and the ease hich they could attack hirandfather's watch which he earing