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Old Wally came in a little while, not following the trail, he had no skill nor patience for that, but with a woodsman's instinct following up the general direction of his game. Not far from where the doe had first appeared he stopped, looked all around keenly, then rested his hands on the end of his long gun barrel, and put his chin on his hands. "Drat it all! Never tetched 'im again.

The sun mus' have tetched his brains out in the desert," he explained, with rapid invention. "I don't want no run-in with a crazy man. I might have to shoot, an' Slim's been a good fr'en' of mine. So I'm going to keep out of his way for a while. I'll ride over to the railroad." Polly could not comprehend this strange behavior of Bud.

Them heavy nothe-easters always throws up a bar, an' they was sucked under it. When the bar give way the tide threw them up. But as soon as the air tetched them they began to moulder." There was a short silence.

"Sybilly got the key an' unlocked it, an' she give us this candy, too!" tattled a Pilgreen with very red hair and a very snub nose. "I didn't, either! It was Jos'phine!" "Aw, you big story-teller! I never tetched it!" The Little Doctor clutched the nearest arm till the owner of it squealed. "How many of you have eaten some of these? Tell the truth, now."

It shall not be my fault if there does not yet grow the closest affection between Johnny's chosen wife and Johnny's daughter," had remarked the mistress of The Maples, some time before. To which Susanna had pertinently replied: "Well, next summer ain't tetched yet, an' we may all be in our graves before that time."

"The onliest time ole Miss eber beat me was when I caused Miss Nancy to get et up wit de bees. I tole her 'Miss Nancy, de bees am sleep, lets steal de honey. Soon as she tetched it, day flew all ober us, and it took Mammy bout a day to get the stingers outen our haids. Ole Miss jest natually beat me up bout dat. "One day they vaccinated all de slaves but mine neber took atall.

"He says the water's full of 'em." "Of course it is." "Sile," said his father, "don't throw away your time on fly-fishing. Use bait, and pull 'em right in. They'll bite." "I'm going to spoon for 'em. Can't find any bait." "Never mind, jedge," said Pine. "I've seen trout in some of these mountain streams jump for a bare hook quick as it tetched the water.

The laughter stopped with a dry croak. He saw that his old master and friend was serious, and reaching for one of the goblets he anxiously exclaimed: "Great day in de mawnin', Marse John! You suttenly don' mean dat! Drink dis heah, quick! Ridin' in de sun's done tetched yoh haid!" "Touched the devil," the old gentleman thundered.

His method was simple and effective: "When I seed a German, I jes' tetched him off." In the afternoon of October 8 York had brought in his prisoners by 10 o'clock in the morning in the seventeenth hour of that day, the Eighty-Second Division cut the Decauville Railroad and drove the Germans from it.

"My Marster was layin' on the rug before the fireplace, and his knees was all drawed up. His right arm, was stretched out, so and his left hand was all doubled up. I know'd he was dead, before I tetched him, for his face was set; and pinched and blue.