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 any of them with a small sword; but he believed they would have been an over-*match for him at boxing. Without investigating this question, Hamilton said, he thought the most important part of the adventure to Scribble, was the object of the pursuit. "Do you think that this fellow, Lawhunt, can pay you for so voluminous a work as this must prove?" Scribble, archly winking, went and shut the door, which happened to be a jar: "Oh no, he will not be able to go through with it; but let him begin it, that's enough, it will not be lost, Billy Nincompoop will take it up—Billy's the man. If any one starts an idea, Bill out with his tablets—down with it—makes it his own. If any one broaches a new book, Billy out with another upon the same subject, like an opposition stage-coach, so that you will see that Nincompoop will be the chap