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Of late years many of the Fust Famblies of San Juan have migrated northward to the teeming negro districts of Harlem, but enough of the old stock remains to lend the settlement its time-honoured touch of gloom. Occasionally, too, it still makes its way to the public notice by sanguinary affrays and race riots.

"Looks like hit's a question of which hired feller gits fust the man who hired the other feller." And when this observation reached old Aaron he agreed heartily. "Fer once in his life," he said, "old Jason Hawn kind o' by accident is a-hittin' the truth."

"Polly's arnt her freedom forty times over, even s'posin' you'd a right to her in the fust place which I and Nancy Scovandyke both doubt; so now set down like a man, make out her free papers, and let me carry 'em to her right away." Without a word Mr.

"I'm that, Charlie, too, and I want one," clamored Pip. "A sentinel ought to have one fust, 'cause he's at de door, and might hab to dribe away down-townies," said Juggie. "No, me first," said the governor. "No, me," said the president. "No, me," said the secretary. It was "me!" "me!" "me!" all over the barn chamber, and the members of that swordless club were almost at swords' points.

"Then," said Mose, the first speaker, his words escaping with even more difficulty than before, "throw around keards to see who's to marry the widder, an' boss her young uns. The feller that gits the fust Jack's to do the job."

"Aint it, though? All right, ride yer high hoss, if yer want to. But throw down them arms fust." "What do you mean?" "I mean all of yer are prisoners, thet's wot I mean," drawled the guerrilla. "You have no right to hold me up in this fashion." "Ye forgit, sonny, thet might makes right in most cases. Come, hand over them firearms."

"I hate argyin'. Fust go off, it's all friendly; 'Yes, my good man. 'No, my dear feller. 'Don't run away with that idear. 'You're puttin' the boot on the wrong foot. 'You got the wrong pig by the tail. an' so on, as sweet as sugar. "Hear anything of Bob and Bat lately?" asked Thompson, after a pause.

'An de very fust air dey put on dat night, I lit into em! Dey laughed, an' dat made me wuss. De res' o' de niggers got to laughin', an' den my soul alive but I was hot!

A little later, when the rest of the former creditors of the Major came out into the moonlight, they found their companion standing by the gate gazing stonily into vacancy. "Hen" Leadbetter, who, with Higgins, brought up the rear of the procession, said reflectively: "When he fust fetched out that stack of money I couldn't scarcely b'lieve my eyes.

But in a minut more he was all right, an' there couldn't nobody treat a feller handsomer than he did me that night an' the next mornin'; but I took notice that the fust thing he done was to heave a big blanket kind o' careless like into the chair, an' cover the things clean up; an' then in a little while he says, a-sweepin' the whole bundle up in his arms, 'I'll just clear up this little mess, an' give ye a comfortable chair to sit in; an' he carried it all blanket, book, bracelets, shawl, an' all into the next room, an' throwed 'em on the floor in a pile in one corner.