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I tried church, when my children began to git a size I wanted 'em to have right teachin', an' you come an' welcomed me an' you been my friend, an' now the others is comin' over at last, an' visitin' me, an' they ain't a thing more I want in life." "I am so glad!" said mother. "Oh my dear, I am so glad!" "Goin' right home an' tell that to Josiah," said Mrs.

He fotched de poor darkies out ob workin' all de time for nuffin for dem Sesh, and he know what he doin'. He goin' to let dem Sesh 'spect dat dey whip dem Yanks affer while, but he not let dem do it. He jes' coaxin' dem on till he git good men hold of de army, den dey all git smash up. Jes' like Genl Tom, de Laud save him for dat. Don't you see dat?

"We may have it warmer after we git more snow," he said. "I'd like to keep on myself until after the first o' the year, same's usual. I've got my reasons," he added. "But don't you go out no more, Chauncey." "What you goin' to do about them trees o' Packer's?" asked Chauncey suddenly, and not without effort. The question had been on his mind all the afternoon.

"Let go yoreself, I cut it first, an' I'm a goin' to have it." They tugged and wrestled and panted, but they were evenly matched and neither gained the advantage. "Let go, I say," screamed Heaters, wild with rage. "I'll die first, you dirty dog!" The words were hardly out of his mouth before a knife flashed in the light of the lanterns, and with a sharp cry, Bud Mason fell to the ground.

Week afore last they was in her feet, and they've ben clear round her and goin' back agen since then. Queer things, them rheumatics!" "They are very painful, Bog, you know," said Pet. "Yes; so aunt says." Bog did not add, as he might have truly done, "A thousand times a day." "Give her my kind regards, Bog, and say I will call and see her," continued Pet. "My respectful regards also," added Mr.

"Hold on now, They ain't a soul goin' to do nothin' for her except her mother," she whimpered. "There she goes again," said Jack in disgust. "He's goin' to take my child away from me," wailed the mother. Tears were streaming down Echo's cheek. "Don't cry, mother," she wept. "No, no, don't cry," echoed the girls. "It's all for the best," began Polly.

Reckon she's been used to livin' kinder different from the way folks down here do hope 'tain't goin' to be so hard on her she won't want to stay." "I was thinking about that myself," said Madison gravely, knotting his brows as he nodded his head.

"Funny way to behave, isn't it?" asked Captain Cai with sternness. "Pokin' an' pryin' in at somebody else's windows what makes ye do it?" "I was curious to know what might be goin' on inside." There was a finality about this which held Captain Cai gravelled for a moment. It hardly seemed to admit of a reply. At length he said

He lets me do EVERYTHING I want because he loves and trusts me an' whatever I do is RIGHT because I do it. I've disgraced ye, have I? Well, none of you can tell me the truth. I'm goin' back to me father." "Go back to your father and glad we are to be rid of you!" answered Mrs. Chichester furiously. "I am goin' back to him "

The doctor thinks it might do my wife some good; and I ain't very well myself, and my girls both want to go; and so we're goin'. If you want to take this thing off my hands, I reckon I can let you have it in 'most any shape you say.