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"The best we have had this half, yet." "Hush sh sh sh!" whispered the boys under their breath. "There goes the master." Mr. Galloway was in his office. Mr. Galloway was fuming and fretting at the non-arrival of his clerk, Mr. Jenkins. Mr.

"Offer number one," said Norton, manifesting neither surprise nor interest even. "Twenty thousand dollars to pull my freight. Well, Jim Galloway, you must have something on the line that pulls like a big fish. Now, let's have the other barrel." "I have suggested that you clean out; the other suggestion is that, if you won't get out of my way, you get busy on your job.

Galloway. "Bywater left his clean surplice yesterday in the vestry, and some one threw ink over it half soaked it in ink, so the choristers told Tom," answered Arthur Channing. "In the afternoon they had service late, you know, sir, waiting for the judges Bywater was not in his place to sing the anthem, and Hurst sang it, and it put the master out very much."

Tod's had been the identical trencher, spoken of as having watched the effect of the message upon old Ketch. "I say, Tod, you were off somewhere to-night for about two hours," said Gerald. "I'll declare you were." "I know I was," said Tod readily. "I had an appointment with Mark Galloway, and I went to keep it.

Galloway, I should have felt tempted to treat him to a shaking, and then, perhaps, he'd have remembered it!" "Mr. Roland told me he was going away, sir, and that you had nobody to replace him; indeed, I gathered that you were ignorant of the step," struck in the quiet, meek voice of poor Jenkins. "I could not stay away, sir, knowing the perplexity you would be put to."

"Superintendent Galloway told me to put a table and some chairs into the last empty room off the passage leading into the kitchen. It's the biggest room in the house, and there are plenty of chairs in the lumber room upstairs." "It should do excellently for the purpose, I should think," said Colwyn.

We have as yet scarce begun our work, for well nigh every fortress in Scotland is in English hands, and we must take as many of them as we can before Edward moves across the Border again." "I will not outstay the time," Sir Archie said. "As we arranged last night, I will march this day week with my retainers to join Sir James Douglas in Galloway." The Siege of Aberfilly

You will not despise La Meffraye when that day comes. You will grovel and weep, and then will La Meffraye spurn you with her foot, till the noise of your crying be borne out over the forest, and for very gladness the wolves howl in the darkness." The little Maid of Galloway was moved to answer, and her lips quivered.

Galloway, "let us understand each other. Have you come here to do anything there may be to do out of doors as well as in? In short, to be my clerk as heretofore?" "Of course I have, sir; until" Arthur spoke very distinctly you shall be able to suit yourself; not longer." "Then take this paper round to Deering's office, and get it signed. You will have time to do it before college."

He was intrusted with a commission to levy the fines imposed by the Privy Council for non-conformity, in the district of Dumfries and Galloway. In this capacity he vexed the country so much by his exactions, that the people rose and made him prisoner, and then proceeded in arms towards Mid-Lothian, where they were defeated at Pentland Hills, in 1666.