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The front door of the third houseboat up the eddy opened and closed. A man climbed the bank and passed the two with a basket on his arm. "Come on down," Carline urged. "Not to-night," Doss said. "I've got my room up at the hotel, and I'll have to get my stuff out of the railroad baggage room. But I'll come down about 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning. Then we'll fit up and drop down the river.

Eagerly Doss searched through the switch willows for a glimpse of the setback of the water beyond the bar. Away down in the old eddy he discovered a shanty-boat, and to cover his involuntary exclamation of satisfaction he said: "Shucks! There's somebody theh. I hoped we'd have it to ourselves but they may be sports, too. If they are, we'll sure have a good time.

'Liars indeed! said Eliza, 'I won't demean myself talking to you. 'How's Mrs Wigson? said Robert, 'and DID you keep it up last night? The mouth of the housemaid fell open. 'Did you doss with Maria or Emily? asked Cyril. 'How did Mrs Prosser enjoy herself? asked Jane. 'Forbear, said Cyril, 'they've had enough.

Carline would have been the most astonished man on the Mississippi had he known that nearly all his money was in the pockets of his guest. He babbled on, and before he knew it, he was telling all about his wife running away down the Mississippi. "What kind of a boat's she in?" Doss asked. "I don't know." "How do you expect to find her if you don't know the boat?"

"I'm going to sail for America to-morrow morning early, and I must see them first." The man leaned forward. "Look here," he said, "if I knew where they was, a quid would be quite good enough for me, but I don't, and that's straight. If you want to look for them, I should try one of the doss houses. As likely there as anywhere." He slammed the door and Tavernake turned away.

Their path thereto is beset by imploring notices like the following: A later hand has added the following moving postscript: It was the Staff Captain who was responsible for the rechristening of the establishment. "What sort of place is this new palace we are going to doss in?" inquired the Machine-Gun Officer, when the Staff Captain returned from his preliminary visit.

"Many a distillery's flowed under the bridge since we were gentlemen; but let's forget the long road we've travelled since, and hit our doss in the good old fashion in which every gentleman went to bed when we were young." "My father done it did it," Fatty concurred and corrected, as old recollections exploded long-sealed brain-cells of connotation and correct usage.

He relinquished the wheel of his boat to the dapper little man, and fed the motor more gas, or slowed down to half speed, while he listened to volumes of river lore. "You've been landing along down?" Doss asked. "All along," Carline replied, "everywhere." "Seen anybody?" "I should say so; there was a fellow come down pretending to be a reporter.

Waldo stood to look after her, and Doss stood at his side, a look of painful uncertainty depicted on his small countenance, and one little foot poised in the air. Should he stay with his master or go? He looked at the figure with the wide straw hat moving toward the house, and he looked up at his master; then he put down the little paw and went.

Another then put in his word: And they dressed him, says he, in a point shift and petticoat with a tippet and girdle and ruffles on his wrists and clipped his forelock and rubbed him all over with spermacetic oil and built stables for him at every turn of the road with a gold manger in each full of the best hay in the market so that he could doss and dung to his heart's content.