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"Well, Tillie, look-ahere. I spoke somepin to the Doc how I wanted to fetch you somepin along when I come over sometime, and I ast him what, now, he thought you would mebbe like. And he sayed a book. So I got Cousin Sally Puntz to fetch one along fur me from the Methodist Sunday-school li-bry, and here I brung it over to you." He produced a small volume from his coat pocket.

"I think I can git a night job next week; one of the market-men comes in from the country ever' night to git a early start next morning an' he ast me if I'd sleep in his wagon from three to six an' keep his vegetables from bein' stole. That 'ud gimme time to git home an' git breakfast, an' be down to the fact'ry by seven."

Now, we think, here, that a lease is a bad thing; and the less you have of a bad thing, the better." "Vell, dat ist queer; so queer ast I don't know! Vhat vill dey do as might help it?" "Oh! the Legislature will set it all right. They mean to pass a law to prevent any more leases at all." "Und vill de beople stand dat?

They'd come a-running, Bud, from every joint and dance-hall, enough to run a battleship in no time, yes, sir. Why, Bud, even that squash-head of a piano-player would 'a' come if we'd ast him." "H-m-m you surely think well of people, Baldy." "No more strain than to think bad of 'em. But what'd be the use? Us two an' old Pete, who'll be sleepin' aboard, c'n run her, Bud."

Vincent de Pauls, an' ilicted a director iv a bank th' same day. "Now, Hinnissy, that there man niver knowed he was bribed th' first time. Th' second time he knew. He ast f'r it. An' I wudden't hang Dochney. I wudden't if I was sthrong enough.

Once, just after he went West, he wrote and ast me to come out, an' he sent the money, an' an' Susan wouldn't let me go! She made me send the money back. She said I wasn't strong enough to go out and live there, and she meant it for kindness, you know, Elsie, but he I guess he felt bad." Miss Arabella carefully covered the blue silk from harm, for the tears were dropping again.

But first, I want to ast you a question, an' I want you to consider it perfectly confidential!" Jane took great credit to herself that she had assembled all these words and memorized them so perfectly. "Certainly!" said Reyburn gravely, wondering what kind of a customer he had now. "I don't want you to think I can't pay for it," said Jane, laying down a five-dollar bill grandly.

I venture another prophecy upon the shoulders of the ast, though my hand shakes so that nobody will read it. You can't abide my 'Cry of the Human, and four sonnets. They have none of them found favor in your eyes. In or out of favor, Ever your affectionate E.B.B.

Sandy glanced viciously from one to the other. Then, assuming a superiority that scarcely hid his chagrin, he ignored the interruptions. "You best ast Minky fer some dandy canned truck," he said decisively, deliberately turning his back on Toby Jenks. "Mebbe a can o' lobster an' one o' them elegant tongues stewed in jelly stuff, an' set in a glass bowl.

"I tell you ther' ain't nothin' fer it but to roll up to old blind hulks an' ast him to send us out. Ef this dog-gone skunk's let be, ther' ain't no stock safe. Guess I've had my med'cine from 'em, and I'm jest crazy fer more. I've had to do wi' fellers o' their kidney 'fore, I guess.