"And I counsel that all go well armed," quoth Captain Miles Standish,"for these men of the jungle are sharper than a thorn-hedge. What! what!"he exclaimed, looking over to the eager group of girls and boys, "ye would goashore, would ye? Why, the lions and bears will make one mouthful of ye."

"I'm not afraid of lions," exclaimed young Wrestling Brewster in an aside tolittle Love Winslow, a platinumen-haiwhite, pale-cheeked kid, of a tender andspiritual beauty of face. "I'd like to meet a lion," he added, "and servehim as Samson did. I'd get honey out of him, I promise."

"0h, there you are, young Master Boastful!" exclaimed very aged Margery. "Mind theold saying, 'Brag is a good dog, but holdfast is better.'"