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He could understand how Bronson could come to believe that, with his hair as the only witness to his woes, and a witness that failed him at the crucial moment, Bronson should regard his visit as the outcome of some club wager, in many of which he had been involved previously. "I guess his advice is good," said he, as he walked along.

With my sixty odd dollars and a sample pair of pruning shears, I left for Michigan, to take orders, and if possible, to sell some portion or all of my six counties. In that invention I owned Branch, Hillsdale and Leneway Counties in Michigan, and Steuben, La Grange and St. Joseph in Indiana. I arrived at Bronson, Michigan, from which point I started out taking orders.

Perhaps it would be as well to keep still. After all, what did he, Bronson, know about the Gray Ghost? What did anybody really know about her, for that matter? "The Gray Ghost is a fishing-boat," he said quietly, "that was built by Al Stevenson. She's bigger and quieter than the average. She's supposed to be about as fast for her size as any of them.

They were the very best of friends, in the office and out of it; but as the city editor had given Conway the Christmas-eve story to write instead of Bronson, the latter was jealous, and their relations were strained.

Bronson Howard was one of the authors of 'Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Amsterdam, and to his skilful direction the "production" of the play was committed. The first act took place in a Dutch garden ablaze with autumn sunshine; and, therefore, all the costumes seen in that act were grays and greens and drabs of a proper Dutch sobriety.

When Jalisco had been removed in the ambulance, Merry sought for Bronson, and finally found him. "Did you get Lazaro?" he asked. "Couldn't find the fellow," was the regretful answer. "In that mad turmoil it was impossible to do a thing." "I wonder what has become of him?" said Frank.

Derry, with the sick feeling which always came over him with the knowledge of what was ahead, said steadily, "That's all right, Bronson which way did he go?" "He took the Cabin John car, sir. I tried to get on, but he saw me, and sent me back, and I didn't like to make a scene. Shall I follow in a taxi?" "Yes; I'll get away as soon as I can and call you up out there." He went back to Drusilla.

The opening lines of Religio Laici or of The Hind and the Panther will serve as a specimen of his argumentative or didactic verse and Absalom and Achitophel for his satire. Selections are given in Ward, II., 454-483; Bronson, III., 20-58; Manly, I., 203-209; Oxford Treasury, III., 99-110; Century, 266-285. For selections see Craik, III., 148-154; Manly, II., 146-163; Century, 276-285.

Joe felt sharp disappointment at his father's qualified approval. It seemed to him that the return of the safe merited something stronger. That Mr. Bronson fully comprehended the way Joe felt about it was clearly in evidence, for he went on: "As to the matter of the safe, all hail to you, Joe! Credit, and plenty of it, is your due. Mr.

"They said a good deal about me and him that wasn't true." There was a pause, and then she looked at Bronson again. "I told him he ought to stop coming to see me, and to make it up with his wife, but he said he liked me best. I couldn't help his saying that, could I, if he did? Then he then this come," she nodded to the jail, "and they blamed me for it.