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"I thought you were in it," replied the mayor, turning very red in the face, for he had heard of Mr. Pullwool as the leader of said ring; and being an iracund man, he was ready to knock his head off.

"By heavens!" exclaimed the iracund mayor, turning red again.

A fat, just man, he too; probably somewhat iracund; not without troubles in his House.

And he lodges with old Count Flemming and his clever fashionable Madam,—the diligent but unsuccessful Flemming, a courtier of the highest civility, though iracund, and "with a passion for making Treaties," whom we know since Charles XII.'s time.

An iracund bear, of dangerous proportions, and justly irritated against us at present?