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certain pitiful air of rakishness; wherefore, I stooped, and,

picking it up, began to brush the dust froed when there arose a sudden bull-like roar and,

glancing up, I beheld a ering a yard or so, thudded down into the

road and so lay, staring vacantly up at the sky Before I could

reach hi unsteadily

to the tree I have mentioned, leaned there, and I saw there was

much blood upon his face which he essayed to wipe aith the

cuff of his coat Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of

his unke

that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness which I had seen,

and pitied in his hat

Observing, as I ca the extreaze of

his sunken eyes, I touched him upon the shoulder