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"No, Aunt Jinkey, you won't be punished for doing a good deed. Your young mistress is on your side, anyway. Who is she?" "Young mistis ain' got no po'r ef dey fin's out. She nuff ter do ter hol' 'er own." "How comes it she's friendly to 'we uns, as you say down here?" "She ain' friendly. You drap at her feet ez ef you wuz dead, en she hab a lil gyurlish, soft heart, dat's all.

Well, be it so, said Wilkins, somewhat disappointed, "but I'm determined to kick him up anyhow." Saying this he advanced towards the brute, but again the powerful hand of Mafuta seized him. "What you do? want git kill altogidder? You is a fool! Him got nuff strong in hims tail to crack off de legs of 'oo like stem-pipes. Yis, kom back?"

I heard Aunt Chloe the other day say, 'Pore things, dey a'n't ole 'nuff to know what dey'd lose, if dey done lose dere mudder." Mabel's ready tears began to flow. "O dear! O dear!" she sobbed, "mamma is going to die! What shall we do?" "Hush, Mabel!" said Edith. "If we ought not to play, why we'll stop; but there isn't any use in crying so. Do please hush this instant."

"Why, you don't call that 'ere hauling, Tommy lad, do you?" "'Nuff to take a fellow's head off," growled the other, just as the midshipman pulled in another mackerel, and directly after another, and another, for they were sailing through a shoal, and the man at the helm let his stolid face break up into a broad grin as the chance of a mess of mackerel for the men's dinner began to increase.

"It 'pends on yer, Miss Clorindy, yer know; de 'couragement yer've ben a givin' him is 'nuff to drive yer admirers out o' der senses." "Oh, dear me, I neber heerd sich audacious nonsense!" said Clo. "It's true," answered Dolf, "an' yer knows it. But ye're received in dat man, Miss Clorindy, yer is! He's got both eyes fixed on de glitterin' dross.

"But what are ye askin' sich a question fer?" asked Chips. "What's burglars got to do wid losin' salvage?" "He was aboard the Pirate, and a reward awaits the lucky dog who lands him. Just a trifle of ten thousand dollars," said Jim, fiercely. Chips turned on him. "Is it sure 'nuff truth ye're tellin', or jest a yarn to soothe our feelin's?" he demanded.

"You can stand that and more, too. I'm letting you off easy. Why, I got Mary's father Mr. Nestor for twice what he took last time, and Mary herself hard as she's working for the Red Cross gave me a nice application. So it's up to you to " "Nuff said!" exclaimed Tom, sententiously, as he signed his name.

"Six!" exclaimed Bird, raising himself up with a desperate struggle, like a wounded hawk. "No six in it; only two left. He don't, can't no how, go to sea with only two men. I'll pilot the schooner out by the Belican Channel an' Mis'sip' Sound. Cap'n Sull'dine 'n' I fit over it, an' I left, with most of the crew. Hah, ha, ha! He done got 'nuff on't!

With the blossoms she loved, Zell faded away in the autumn, but her death was like that of the flowers, in the full hope of the glad springtime of a new life. As her eyes closed and she breathed her last sigh out on Edith's bosom, old Hannibal sobbed "She's a white rose now sure 'nuff." Arden and Edith were married the following year, on the 14th of June, the anniversary of their engagement.

This was the great day of the faithful servant's life, and she felt its importance in every cord of her heart. "Now," she called out, addressing Victoria with a pompous lift of the head, "yer can come up stairs and help about thar. Them roseys ain't so bad but that I've seen wuss; but there's 'nuff of 'em, so cum 'long o' me, and shut up de draw'n'-room winder-blinds."