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"Many's the time I've said to you a-sittin' in this very corner, 'Jarge, I've said, 'mark my words, Jarge if ever my Prue does marry some'un which she will that there some 'un won't be you. Them be my very words, bean't they, Jarge?" "Your very words, Gaffer," nodded George. "Well then," continued the old man, "'ere's what I was a-comin' to Prue 's been an' fell in love wi' some 'un at last."

"No," said Captain Yorke, seeing the direction of his glance, "they bean't here in the cart, nor nowheres here; they're down into the lighthouse. Perry was comin' over in his boat 'thout no load; an', as I was pretty well filled up, he brought 'em over, an' he's took 'em to his own landin'. Soon's I'm rid of my load I'll go after 'em.

Such was by no means the case with Jack, and he was quite taken by surprise when a driver said to him, "This be the last train this shift." "Why, it bean't nigh two o'clock, surely?" he said. "It be," the driver said; "wants ten minutes, that's all." Soon the miners began to come along. "Hullo, Jack!" Bill Haden's voice said. "Be'st still here. Come along of me. Why didst stop, lad?

"Is a wandering Scotsman." "Why then I can't go down and find ye corp' arter all?" "I fear not, Ancient." The old man slowly closed his snuff-box, shaking his head as he did so. "Ah, well! I won't blame ye, Peter," said he magnanunously, "it bean't your fault, lad, no but what's come to the ghost!" "The ghost," I answered, "is nothing more dreadful than a wandering Scotsman!"

I've told 'ee afore, I don't care wheer she comes nor wheer she goes, she bean't nothin' to me no more, nor I to she. If so be some man 'as a mind to ax 'er for 'isself, all open an' aboveboard, I say again let 'im. And now, let's talk o' summat else." "Willingly. There's to be boxing, and single-stick, and wrestling at the Fair, I understand." "Ay."

"Bless your heart, sir! nothing ever inconveniences she. There bean't a pleasanter young body alive. She'll often come into this kitchen just as you did, gentlemen, and very happy to see you always," added Mrs. Tod, curtseying. "When Mr. March is asleep she'll come and sit for half an hour, talking to Tod and me; and playing with the baby "

"Oh! it's a fine story, a fine story!" he chuckled. "Theer bean't many men o' my age as 'as fund a 'ung man in a thunderstorm!

"Well, I bean't company, Peter your friend, I be," he said doggedly, and without looking at me. "Yes," said I; "yes, my good and trusty friend." "Peter," he cried suddenly, laying his hand upon my shoulder, "don't go back to that theer ghashly 'Oller to-night " "It is the only place in the world for me to-night, George."

"Ye see, Gaffer," pursued Amos, "if you didn't bring Jarge back wi' you w'ich you said you would the question we axes is wheer be Jarge?" "Ah! wheer?" nodded Job gloomily. Here the Ancient was evidently at a loss, to cover which, he took a vast pinch of snuff. "'Ow be we to know as 'e bean't pinin' away in a dungeon cell wi' irons on 'is legs, an' strapped in a straitjacket an "

'I dinnot know whether thou'd ever dreamt of it, though I think that's loike eneaf, mind, retorted John; 'but thou didst it. "Ye're a feeckle, changeable weathercock, lass," says I. "Not feeckle, John," says she. "Yes," says I, "feeckle, dom'd feeckle. Dinnot tell me thou bean't, efther yon chap at schoolmeasther's," says I. "Him!" says she, quite screeching.