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This very subordinate view failed in this instance of the satisfaction it is wont to give to the masculine mind. "Waal, ye didn't git enough l'arnin' ter hurt ye," he retorted. Then, relenting, he added, "But I don't find no fault with ye fur that nuther." The color flared into her face. How she resented his clemency to her ignorance!

An' thar's Paul, too, lookin' fur all the world like a scholar, crammed full o' book l'arnin', 'stead o' the ring-tailed forest runner, half hoss, half alligator, that he is, though he's got the book l'arnin' an' is one o' the greatest scholars the world ever seed!

"Ay, if some bundles could speak, they might tell wonderful secrets," returned the young man deliberately undoing the folds of another piece of course canvass, in order to come at the contents of the roll that lay on his knees: "though this doesn't seem to be one of that family, seeing 'tis neither more nor less than a sort of flag, though of what nation, it passes my l'arnin' to say."

Hope you kin mek all the flourishes; ha'f the folks in Bourbon County jedge a man's book l'arnin' by the way he writes. That's hunkey-dorey!" he exclaimed, looking over the writer's shoulder. "Thet'll fetch 'em!" When the clock pointed to half-past eight, Mrs. Rogers rolled up her work, declaring it time for all honest folks to be abed.

But, Miz Mayfield, this has all come about so sudden that " Jasper snorted and she scowled at him. "Don't pay no attention to him, Miz Mayfield. Yes, so sudden that I don't hardly know what to say. But Lou is a good child an' thar ain't but one pity about her, an' that is she hain't got much l'arnin', though she did go to school fur two year over at Dry Fork." "She will learn, Mrs.

"Eh?" the man taunted. "Will you have another?" The dog's head subsided upon his paws; but his eyes never once left his master's face and the eyes were alert, steady, hard as steel. "You're l'arnin'," the man drawled.

De noo man look' at Mars Johnson fer a minute ez ef he did n' know w'at ter make er dis yer kin' er l'arnin'. But w'en de oberseah raise' his w'ip ter hit him ag'in, de noo nigger des haul' off en made fer Mars Johnson, en ef some er de yuther niggers had n' stop' 'im, it 'peared ez ef he mought 'a' made it wa'm fer Ole Nick dere fer a w'ile.

She would toss overboard her acquirements as ruthlessly as useless ballast from an over-encumbered boat. But, if Samson came demanding these attainments, he must find her possessed of them. So far, her idea of "l'arnin'" embraced the three R's only.

"I's older, ye know," said Tom, stroking the boy's fine, curly head with his large, strong hand, but speaking in a voice as tender as a woman's, "and I sees all that's bound up in you. O, Mas'r George, you has everything, l'arnin', privileges, readin', writin', and you'll grow up to be a great, learned, good man and all the people on the place and your mother and father'll be so proud on ye!

"'Which is what I'm goin' for and intend to do. "'Then, continued Sam, 'you two could sit on the back seat, and I could sit in front and drive. "'Did you ever drive, Sam? asked Captain Abner. "'Not yet; but I wouldn't mind l'arnin'. "'But you won't l'arn with me and her, said Captain Abner. "'How are you goin' to manage it, then? asked Sam.