Few things besides riches are so elusive, and the little fellows have, I am sure, a shrewd humor peculiar to themselves.

Extremes in the tone of thought and feeling are shown in the despondent imagination of Mrs. Shelley and the coarse and shrewd humor of Galt.

"Have to get or borrow a gun from one of those chaps inside there," he mused with shrewd humor.

"This is the way she skirmishes with all your sex, until her shrewd humor transforms them to its own likeness."