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Yet the Florentine burgess of the fifteenth century, the very man whose simple and hard common-sense got him wealth, or at least a fine competence, and, as he has told us, a good housewife, and made him one of the toughest traders in Europe, would become almost a poet in his country house.

An insoluble riddle to him; extremely contemptible, yet, with a huge Russia tacked to it, and looming minatory in the distance, from time to time, formidable enough. Let readers keep it in mind, and try to imagine it. It cost Friedrich such guessing, computing, arranging, rearranging, as would weary the toughest reader to hear of in detail.

"Everybody says so," came the answer. "Yegg-men are supposed to be the toughest members of the tramp tribe. They're really burglars or safe-blowers, who pretend to be hoboes so they can prowl around country towns, looking up easy snaps about the banks and stores that ought to be good picking. And so you think these four men might belong to that crowd, do you, Bobolink?"

To the most legitimate pride and the most scrupulous integrity, he unites a keen and supple mind, and wit enough to get the better of the toughest rascal. He has no fortune for the reason that hum! he gave up all he had to certain pretended creditors of his father. But whenever he wishes to be rich, he shall be; and broum! he may be so before long. I know his projects, his hopes, his resources."

"Well, it's no use for me to stand here tryin' to figure out whether they've given me this money or really mean to buy the rifle, for I've got to strike Antelope Spring between this time an' midnight. Now that there are ten dollars in my pocket, I'll be a pretty poor stick if I don't do it; but the sand-storm came mighty near windin' me up. It was the toughest thing I ever saw."

It is said that a king lived there, who had an only daughter. For some reason he determined to kill her, and decided that as she was fond of dancing she should be danced to death. He therefore, amongst his officers, sought out the toughest for the work; but his daughter danced with nine of them without signs of giving way. The king was enraged.

Here was one who would ride the fiercest outlaw horse on the ranch; wear out the toughest cowboy; play with them to weariness when they wanted to play, fight with them to exhaustion when they wanted to fight, and as her right-hand man, advise her for the best. "As for terms, the right man can make them for himself," she concluded, hopelessly: "Mr.

"No, you go. I can't do it," said Bill, scratching the gravel walk with his toes. "I say somebody's got to go," said the first speaker. "I'll go," said Boone Jones, the toughest of the party. "I ain't afeerd," he added huskily, as he took the flowers in his hand and knocked at the door. But when Boone got in, and saw Priscilla lying there so white, he began to choke with a strange emotion.

How peacefully the still water lay under the shining moon that moon which is capable of making, not soft young lovers only, but the toughest old stagers sentimental nay, maudlin at times; an intoxicant purged of the grossness of spirituous liquors, but acting on the brain in precisely the same way.

It was a bit of a job, wasn't it?" "The toughest thing I ever tackled." Clark's eyes twinkled with amusement. "I know it. Now, remember I don't want advice and if I smash and I really won't smash I don't want sympathy. It's the kind of balm I've no use for. Some people are so hungry for sympathy that they forget their jobs. And, Belding!" "Yes, sir." "I'm going to see you through, remember that.