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Now that you're here, ye might get up a batch o' hot biscuit for supper. Dinner was that promiscous and experimental to-day, along o' Richelieu's nat'ral foolin', that I think I could git outside of a little suthin' now, if only to prop up a kind of innard sinkin' that takes me. Ye ken tell me the news at supper." Later, however, when Mr.

"I'll need you to start work right away," he was saying, "an' you ken draw on me fer all the supplies you need. It's a dandy claim," he went on grimly, "but I don't know fer sure what you'll likely find on it. Maybe you'll find suthin' if you work long enough. Anyways, you'll start by sinkin' a shaft; an' you'll kep on sinkin' it till till I tell you to quit."

Sinkin could see the form of a young lady in a blue dress, lying in a hammock, with a cigarette between her lips and a yellow book in her hands. She approached her thinking, "Dear me! how comfortable, in these days!" And, putting her head a little on one side, she said with a smile: "My name is Sinkin. I hope I'm not disturbing you." The young lady rose with a vigorous gesture. "Oh, no!

Now, whiniver I gave them my advice they would be cur-rsin' an' sinkin' at me whin they met me aftherwards in the sthreet, be raison that there was only two hotels in the place, an' nayther o' thim was at all aiqual to what they wor used to in their own counthries. So I got to know this, an' iver afther, whin they would be sayin' to me,

"And is it quite sure ye are that she's sinkin'?" he said. "Ay, ay! sure enough, my man; and you'd better look sharp." Having cast one last, lingering look around him, Curtis then left the ship; the rope was cut, and we went slowly adrift. All eyes were fixed upon the spot where the Chancellor lay foundering.

How would you like to walk three long, dreary miles, in sleet, and frost, and snow, havin' no house to go to wid thin breeches to your bottom, an' maybe a hole in them widout shoe or stockin' on your hooves wid a couple of shiverin', half starved, sick childre, tied by an ould praskeen to your back, an' you sinkin' wid hunger all the time? ay, and the tail o' your old coat blown up behind every minute, like a sparrow before the wind!

She'd just lie there holdin' Gerald's hand an' gazin' at him an' makin' him tell over an' over again of how he'd been saved from the wreck. He was only a wee lad of three at the time, but he could still remember of his father standin' there on the deck of the sinkin' ship an' holdin' him in his arms.

Gusterson said, "Weird to think of that big bright space-poor glamor basement stretching around everywhere underneath. Did you remind Smitty to put a new bulb in the elevator?" "The Smiths moved out this morning," Daisy said tonelessly. "They went underneath." "Like cockroaches," Gusterson said. "Cockroaches leavin' a sinkin' apartment building. Next the ghosts'll be retreatin' to the shelters."

"Goin' to start right now?" said Phoebe. "Might's well, I guess." He proceeded to the engine-room, followed by Phoebe, who watched his actions with the greatest interest. "What you doin' with that handle?" she asked. "That sets the airyplane on the uptilt. I'm only settin' it a mite jest 'nough to keep the machine from sinkin' down when we get to movin'." "How are you goin' to lift us up?"

"I'll not go one step," she said at last, sinkin' down in a chair; but Dick walked over to her an' asked her to step into the next room with him a minute. They only talked together a few moments, an' then we heard her give a stifled sob an' go back upstairs. I never see such a change as had come over Jabez. His face was drawn an' haggard like the face of a man lost in the desert without water.