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Whar's dey gwine tu put de dirt, and whar is de water to cum fum to mash it down?" Yah, yah, yah. "Go 'way nigger, I 'spec you bin mole huntin'." "Dat am fac', Tony, I didn't tink 'bout dat," said Uncle Jim, with an apologetic and crestfallen air. Here Tony gave his pipe another rake in the embers, took a few puffs, and fell off his log fast asleep.

The painting was finely copper-plated in 1830, and the present is a fac simile. The time was signalized by the separation of the society of Friends, so greatly talked of and continuing yet but so little really explain'd. And the following is what has at last but all come out of it the feeling and intention never forgotten yet! It is a specimen of this class I would now present.

"All I says is, dat I started whah I come fum wid dat cat an' I 'specks to lan' up whah I 's gwine to wid dat same cat in dat same cage. Bein' as you 's got dem chillun en dat wife, I calls yo' 'tenshun to dat fac', suh." The chauffeur, a case-hardened pirate, laughed. "All right, lady," said he, genially.

"Mars Jeems lafft en lafft, 'tel it 'peared lack he wuz des gwine ter bu'st. 'Tell me some mo' 'bout dat noo nigger, oh, tell me some mo'. Dat noo nigger int'rusts me, he do, en dat is a fac'.

Forbye that, he would be in raither a hobble himsel', if he was to gang hame wantin' Faa. Folk are awfu' throng with their questions, and parteecularly when they're no wantit. 'That's a fac', said Candlish. I considered this prospect ruefully; and then making the best of it, 'Upon all which accounts, said I, 'the best will be to get across the border and there separate.

What a pity it is though dey make de glasses so almighty tunderin' small; de man dat inwented dem couldn't a had no remaginable nose at all, dat are a fac." "But the colour of Adam?" said I. "Oh, Massa," he said, "you knows bery well he was a black gentleman, and Missus Eve a most splendid Swanga black lady. Oh yes, Massa, dey were made black to enjoy de grand warm sun.

The fac is, that the man was ance a minister o' the Kirk o' Scotlan'; but whan he was a yoong man, he fell intil a great faut: a yoong man's faut I'm no gaein to excuse 't dinna think it!

Gien onybody ever said it, mak ye speed and get yer health again, and syne ye can shaw him plain 'at he's a leear. 'But I tell ye, Kirsty, I ran awa! 'I fancy ye wud hae been naething but a muckle idiot gien ye hadna! Ye didna ley onybody in trouble! did ye noo? 'No a sowl 'at I ken o'. Na, I didna do that. The fac was but nae blame to them they a' gaed awa and left me my lane, sleepin.

"Dae ye ken," said an old man as the game proceeded, "I wis present at old Hampden Park on the wet Hogmanay afternoon long ago, when the Vale licked the Queen's by two to one in a Cup tie, and I wish'd ye'd a' seen the Queen's Park committee men and their supporters that day when the bare fac' wis kent. I'm thinkin' they didna craw sae crouse, and maybe they'll get a fricht the noo."

When I entered upon this inquiry, which has resulted in the preparation of this paper, I was ignorant of the fact that the original Proclamation had been destroyed, and it was my purpose to secure its return to the archives of the Department of State. That is now impossible. Its destruction has given value to the fac simile copies.