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"I wisht he KIN," declared Amanda, "if it would learn him how dumm us folks thinks a feller where spends a whole Sunday afternoon by hisself READIN'!" "Why, yes," put in Mrs. Wackernagel; "what would a body be wantin' to waste time like that fur? when he could of spent his nice afternoon settin' there on the porch with us all, conwersin'."

"But in about ten minutes father will be stopping on his way from Lancaster market," Tillie said, though obediently going toward the corner where hung her shawl and bonnet, "to get my wages and see me, Aunty Em like what he does every Saturday still." "Well, don't be so dumm, Tillie! That's why I'm sendin' you off!"

"Och, I just mean, SAY NOT? Can't you mebbe talk English wery good? We had such a foreigners at this HOtel a'ready. We had oncet one, he was from Phil'delphy and he didn't know what we meant right when we sayed, 'The butter's all any more. He'd ast like you, 'All what? Yes, he was that dumm! Och, well," she added consolingly, "people can't help fur their dispositions, that way!"

He sayed this dinner that he was some uneasy that he used the strap so hard but he was that wonderful spited to think you'd set up readin' a novel-book in the night-time yet! You might of knew you'd ketch an awful lickin' fur doin' such a dumm thing like what that was.

All the time he works for us he acts so dumm like a ten-year-old child; and so soon as we fire him, Mawruss, he goes to work by Kleiman & Elenbogen and turns out a couple of styles, which the least them highwaymen makes out of 'em is five thousand dollars." "How should I know what Harkavy could do with Kleiman & Elenbogen, Abe?" Morris cried. "You are the prophet of this here concern, Abe.

"She ain't never ast me you goin' to furnish fur her. She don't take no interest. She's so funny that way. I think to myself, still, Tillie is, now, a little dumm!"

The county superintendent of public instruction was held in such awe that his name was scarcely mentioned in an ordinary tone of voice. "As if there's no difference from a teacher at William Penn to the county superintendent! You ain't that dumm, Tillie!" "The difference is that the teacher at William Penn is superior in every way to the county superintendent!"

"Hold your whiskers, Jake, or they'll blow off! You're talkin' through your hat! Don't be so dumm! Teacher she gev me that there book because she passed me her opinion she don't stand by novel-readin'. She was goin' to throw out that there book and I says I'd take it if she didn't want it. So then I left Tillie borrow the loan of it." "So that's how you come by it, is it?" Mr.

"He's so dumm he'll b'lee' most anything. If I have much more dealin's with your pop, Tillie, I'll be ketchin' on to how them novels is got up myself. And then mebbe I'll LET doctorin', and go to novel-writin'!" The doctor laughed with relish of his own joke, as Mr. Getz, grim with anger, stalked up to the buggy. "Look-ahere!"

"Why, get up!" he shouted to his horses. "Goin' to stay here all day?" He craned his neck round the side of the wagon for a sight of her. "Well, dumm 'f I don't wish I was sick! Steps along," he mused, watching the swirl and ripple of her skirt, "like I dunno what." With her face turned from him Dr.