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'Standin'-room an' no more, sez I, 'onless it may be fwhat ye niver had, an' that's manners, ye rafflin' ruffian, for I was not goin' to have the Service throd upon. 'Out of this, sez he. 'I'm in charge av this section av construction. 'I'm in charge av mesilf, sez I, 'an' it's like I will stay a while. D'ye raffle much in these parts? 'Fwhat's that to you? sez he.

"Can I do anything for you?" said the editor blandly. "Ay! I've coom here to bill ma woife." "I don't think I understand," hesitated the editor, with a smile. "I've coom here to get ye to put into your paaper a warnin', a notiss, that onless she returns to my house in four weeks, I'll have nowt to do wi' her again." "Oh!" said the editor, now perfectly reassured, "you want an advertisement?

"An' sure enough it looked good f'r awhile, an' th' time come whin th' occas'nal dollar bill that wint acrost this bar on pay night wasn't good money onless it had th' name iv th' naygur on it. In thim days they was a young la-ad a frind iv wan iv th' Donohue boys that wint to th' public school up beyant, an' he was as bright a la-ad as ye'd want to see in a day's walk.

He says: "I didn' know dey was so many un um. I hain't hearn 'bout none un um, skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless you counts dem kings dat's in a pack er k'yards. How much do a king git?" "Get?" I says; "why, they get a thousand dollars a month if they want it; they can have just as much as they want; everything belongs to them." "AIN' dat gay? En what dey got to do, Huck?"

'Boys, says he to th' rayporthers, 'th' King's on me yacht. D'ye hear me? Th' King's on me yacht. But don't say annything about it. I don't want to have it known. Don't print it onless ye have to, an' thin put it in an inconspicuous place, like th' first page. He's here sure enough, boys. Th' mast just fell on his Majesty. It nearly kilt him. I'm not sure it didn't kill him.

Your partner's a shore enough optimist that a-way. "Cherokee don't make no retort. This Holliday ain't posted none that the partner Cherokee's mentionin' is Faro Nell, an' Cherokee allows he won't onbosom himse'f on that p'int onless his hand is forced. "When the time arrives to open the game, the heft of Wolfville's public is gathered at the Red Light.

"This isn't a trail a man can hurry on onless he spends a good deal of his time on it, or is careless about notin' the signs, fur the words be weighty, and a man must stop at each word, and look around awhile, in order to git all the meanin' out of 'em yis, a man orter travel this trail a leetle slow, ef he wants to see all there is to see on it." Then the old man began to read:

"Wal, I reckon you can't onless you want to hev them scrappin'," rejoined Stillwell, dryly. "What you've got on your hands now, Miss Majesty, is to let 'em come one by one, an' make each cowboy think you're takin' more especial pleasure in showin' him than the feller who came before him. Then mebbe we can go on with cattle-raisin'."

Her appealing objection had wounded him. She was reminded of how sensitive the old man had always been to any reflection cast upon his son. "Wal, thet's onlucky;" he replied, gruffly. "Mebbe you'll change. I reckon no girl could help a boy much, onless she cared for him. Anyway, you an' Jack will marry."

'Now, how does th' sentence r-read? 'Th' next day was four o'clock in Janooary an' supposin' th' amount iv money, an' supposin' ye haven't got a very large salary holdin' th' chair iv conniption fits at th' college, an' supposin' ye don't get a cent onless ye answer r-right, I ask ye, on th' night in question whin th' pris'ner grabbed th' clock, was he or was he not funny at th' roof? 'I objict to th' form iv question, says th' State's attorney.