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Ain't much else goin' at the post office, 'cept letters and papers; and I ain't one o' them as sets no count by the papers. La, what do I care for the news at Washington? I don't know the folks; they may all die or get married for what I care; but in Pleasant Valley I know where I be, and I know who the folks be.

Oh, it's a wale o' tears!" "But there are no bears in Vernon, Mrs. Riggs," laughed Evadne. "Land, child! you never know what there might be!" said the old lady testily. "Be you a' stayin' at Mis' Everidge's?" "Yes," said Evadne, "she is my aunt." "Hum! I never knew she hed any nieces, 'cept them two gals uv Jedge Hildreth's down ter Marlborough." "I am their cousin, Mrs. Riggs.

"I take it," plunging his hand into his pocket, "yew ain't stowed away nothin' since that mince-pie; but I can't offer yer nothin' to eat till Blossy gits back an' opens up the house, 'cept these here pepp'mints. They're fine; try 'em."

"My idee is this," continued Captain Corbet: "We'll finish our tower of inspection round the Bay of Fundy at Scott's Bay. Thar won't be nothin more to do; thar won't remain one single settlement but what we've called at, 'cept one or two triflin places of no 'count. So, after Scott's Bay, my idee is to go right straight off to old Minas. Who knows but what he's got on thar somewhar?"

Dat made me mad, an' I 'spute him, an' sez I, 'I won't hev no sech name'. Den de boss man, he shet up Marse Gleason purty smart like, and he sed I'd a right ter enny name I chose ter carry, kase nobody hadn't enny sort o' right ter fasten enny name at all on ter me 'cept myself. But he sed I'd better hev two, kase most other folks hed 'em.

It don't do no good to brag afore your own women-folks; work goes consid'able better'n stories at every place 'cept the loafers' bench at the tavern." And the baffled raconteur, who had never done a piece of work cheerfully in his life, dragged himself reluctantly to the shed, where, before long, one could hear him moving the dasher up and down sedately to his favorite "churning tune" of

Don't swear like that," Betty exclaimed laughing; "Mr. Maxwell's coming." "I said d-u-m, Mrs. Betty; I never say nothin' worse than that 'cept when I lose my temper," he added, safely, examining first the hone and then the edge of the scythe, as if intending to sharpen it.

He am some bettah, now, sah, but he kain’t be move’ from de voodoo’s house ’cept by a frien’.” “I’ll get a chance to see one of these old voodoo frauds, anyway,” Jack told himself. “This new experience will be worth the time it keeps me out of my bed. What a pity Hal missed a queer old treat like this!”

"It takes the stepladder to get at the top shelf, and I put Aunt Philura Maple's pickle-dish up there o' purpose when we was married, and it's never been down since, 'cept for the spring cleaning, and then I always lifted it with my own hands, so's 't shouldn't get broke." She laid the fragments reverently on the table. "I want to know who done this," she quavered.

"That ain't nothin', 'cept ther shadder er ther ship," he said. Tammy, after my hint, let it go at that. But when Plummer had gone forrard with the others, I told him not to go telling everything round the decks, like that. "We've got to be thundering careful!" I remarked. "You know what the Old Man said, last watch!" "Yes," said Tammy. "I wasn't thinking; I'll be careful next time."