piping times if I were you, Buddy--if@
they depend on a draught from that mysterious
spring."

Now, it was the nickum who answered ?@
the same scintillating tones they were--@
how bully they sounded then--which had
quoted Shakespeare on " Something rotten
in the State of Denmark", amid other
depressing waters, half hidden, half liberated
by their ice-cloak.

"I can look out for my own 'piping
times'--thank you! And I'm not going
to buy any pig in a poke--take any leap
in the dark."

The scout's reply was bristling. To a
fifteen-year-old patrol leader, a Henkyl
Hunter, who went up and down upon the
trail of a joke, there was a smack of condescension
about that "Buddy", used twice
by those big boys; perhaps he, too, at
that moment, laid up something against ?
the youth of the naming tone and rig.'

"Humph! hasn't he the nerve, butting
in?" he muttered.

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