CHAPTER V

THE GRIFFIN'S CLAWS.

Well, master had hit the right nail on the head this time: thanx to luck - the crooked one, to be sure, but then it had the GOOLD NOBB, which was the part Deuceace most valued, as well he should; being a connyshure as to the relletiff valyou of pretious metals, and much preferring virging goold like this to poor old batt