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"He ain't agoin' to be right down sick, of course?" said the blacksmith, come to report all the progress made. "Natchelly, we'd better go on, gittin' ready fer the banquet? He'll be all right fer to-morrow?" "Oh yes," said Jim. "There never yet was a Christmas that wouldn't get a little youngster well. He'll come to the tree, you bet. It's goin' to be the happiest time he ever had."

"Lord!" ejaculated his wife. "All them?" "All them," replied Rawdy, moodily triumphant. "Well," said his wife, "that ain't the point." "No, it ain't," agreed Rawdy. "The point is," said she, "is he agoin' to or ain't he agoin' to pay." "That's so," said Rawdy. "He's a-owin' everybody, ain't he?" said the wife. "Pooty near, I guess."

"Enough!" exclaimed George, with a look of surprise, "why, zat is not enough to scare a weasel with, much less a elephant or a a platzicumroggijoo." George was ignorant of South African zoology, and possessed inventive powers. "Bring ten times as much," he added; "we shall have to keep a blazin' bonfire agoin' all night."

What a change there was in her! "Look, right in front there, laddie," said Uncle Jack. "Can't you see? She's just about making-sail, so we'd better get on board as soon as possible. Hi, boatman, seen any one belonging to the Greenock ashore?" "Aye, aye, sir," answered the man addressed, "her boat's just over there by the p'int, just agoin' to shove off."

It won't go down here, where we know yeh." "Good land! Eat all yeh want! They's plenty more in the fiel's, but I can't afford to give you young 'uns tea. The tea is for us womenfolks, and 'specially fr Mis' Smith an' Bill's wife. We're agoin' to tell fortunes by it."

And let me tell ye, if it ever do happen here, thar's agoin' to be a slide to beat the band!" Nick asserted, positively. "But what makes you say that, Nick?" demanded the boy. "Oh! lots of people says the same thing," replied the other, as if carelessly. "That a landslide is going to start things going on Thunder Mountain any time is that what you mean?" Peg insisted on repeating.

She flew to the little man and hugged him enthusiastically. "I'm so dead tired I've worked every minute, haven't I, Sam?" "She sure has," the boy chuckled admiringly, "kep us all agoin' too!" "How do you like it, papa?" Milly led the little man into the front room and waited breathlessly for his approbation. It was her first attempt in the delicate art of household arrangement.

"Well, well," he said, after gazing around for some time in silence as he lay with his head supported on the sail, "I s'pose it's all right, and I'll wake up all square in the mornin', but it's out o' sight the most comical dream I've had since I was a babby. I only hope it'll take a pleasanter turn if it's agoin' to continue."

Slowly he read aloud: "DERE Miss CLAUDIA, The chillern is near bout set me crazy sence I tole 'em I was agoin' to ask you to do me some favors which is to buy for me some New York krismus presents.

'Who are ye, anyway, and what are ye doin' there? "'Sure, your honor, says I, 'a'n't we goin' to move to-morrow, and it's not the likes of a kind man like you that would be wishin' to lave poor little Naggeneen behind. "'Is that the way of it? says MacCarthy. 'Well, if you're agoin' to move wid us, I see no use in movin' at all.