84 EUDENESS CHECKED. 



posed to put up with insult, nor to have the limbs of 

 my dogs thus wantonly endangered, so no more of 

 that ! " The fellow scowled at me from head to foot, I 

 suppose to see what sort of a customer I might be in a 

 " rough and tumble difficulty," said nothing, and, I take 

 it, possessing no more property than his one trunk con 

 tained, did not desire to place himself again in an offen 

 sive attitude. 



