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Bauer--Johannes was the nah to the rest of the world he was sier--hat he himself called a true sport Women, he maintained, were very much like trout; and so, when this particular woman calmly turned her back upon the s uselessly, but betook himself to the store, where his worldly position, rather than his char hi side by side upon the porch and saying very little, he passed by with a careless nod, as being not worth his attention Saunders, glancing up fro last chapter of "The Brokenhearted Bride," also received a nod, and returned it apathetically Pete Hah, and the announceamy tussle with that four-pounder he had lost last tiet hiery "Took half ray hackle that I revised to suit reat immortal Jehosaphat, he looked like a whale when he jumped up clear of the riffle, turned over, and--" His flabby, white handmovement to indicate the manner in which the four-pounder had vanished

"Better take a day off and go withpipe fro his eyes at a trout-fly snagged in the rievedly, while he released it daintily for all his fingers looked so fat and aard He stuck the pipe in the corner of his mouth, and held up the fly with that interest which see blood in his veins

"Last tio--the day I lost the big one Ain't it a beauty, eh? Tied it reat immortal Jehosaphat, it fetchesone Don't see how I didn't n of old age, that Failing powers and the like" He shook his head reprovingly and grinned, as if he considered the idea so of a joke "Have to buck up--a lawyer can't afford to grow absent-minded He's liable to wake up some day and find himself without his practice"