But the prudent lieutenant smiled and put her off cleverly, leaving his fair questioner-andme-nonethe wiser.

An Ouphe, fair questioner,-thoughyou may never have heard of him,-wasa creature well known (by hearsay, at least) to your great-great-grandmother.

"Are you here," continued his fair questioner, with more emphasis, "on a hostile mission?

"Indeed," his fair questioner replied; "and they told me you had written a famous history of mongrels!"