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"Well, that's the way things went at the first, while he was gettin' his start, and I guess they was happy then. You see, they was pullin' even them days and runnin' neck and neck.

"Well, I tell you, that blew down their clothes-line in a hurry; especially when I told them that he was to be recepted at his own home on the very day they were planning their spree." "They got into a terrible sweat, and one of the women ran and telephoned the Mayor's office, and the Mayor came runnin' over as if the town had caught fire.

"Now, dis yer Hannibal was a monst'us sma't nigger, en w'en he got rid er dem so' feet, his min' kep' runnin' on 'is udder troubles.

Now don't stand haverin' there, get in the cart quick, or Jim'll be runnin' away." Jim showed no sign of this desperate intention, but, on the contrary, stood very patiently waiting till his passengers were safely seated, when he trotted off at a great pace, with such a clatter of hoofs and rattle of wheels as rendered conversation impossible.

Old Man "Oh, we didn't set nothing afore him up thar except Joe Brown's Pets, these sorry little Reserves; they're powerful little account; no stand-up to'em at all; they'd break their necks runnin' away ef ye so much as bust a cap near to 'em."

He went on muttering, as he gathered up his pint-pot and bottle, "I'm goin' to send my Tim to college soon's the thing's in runnin' order. Lord! what a lawyer that boy'll make!" Mrs. Howth's brain was still muddled. "You are better pleased than you were at Lincoln's election," she observed, placidly. "Lincoln be darned!" he broke out, forgetting the teachings of Mr. Clinche.

Av coorse they will not. 'Twas the most compenjus conversation that iver accrued. Double game an' twice runnin' all to us." Dan kicked Harvey under the table, and Harvey choked in his cup. "Well," said Salters, who felt that his honour had been somewhat plastered, "I said I didn't know as 'twuz any business o' mine, 'fore I spoke."

'I'll tillygraft to Mark that ivrything is all r- right, he says, 'an' that our relations with his majesty or her majesty or their Boxerships or th' Down-with-th'-foreign-divvlers or whoiver's runnin' th' shop over beyant are as they ought to be or worse or betther, as th' case may be, he says. 'Good, says Woo, 'ye're a man afther me own heart, he says.

Let the boys pass the empty buckets an' the men the full ones." "Let's form two lines for full buckets," proposed another man. "We'll need three," put in a third individual. "Who's runnin' this here fire, I'd like to know?" inquired the constable indignantly. "Git to work now." "Yes, I guess they'd better, or there won't be any barn to save," spoke Bert. The flames were crackling furiously.

"Safe, my darling, thank God," said Mr. Martell, taking her into his arms; "and they have pulled our stout oarsman in, too. So we are all safe." "Well, I hope so," said the ex-sailor, with a little depressive dubiousness. "We shipped a sight o' water comin' out. There's a deal of ice runnin', and so chopped up one can skerce see it. I must be skipper and all, mind, if we are to come safe out.