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Smith turned upon him a face all wrinkles, lit by one eye. "I want the hins and the pigs first," he said, firmly. Mr. Miller, shocked at his grasping spirit, stared at him mournfully. "And twenty pounds the day you marry Mrs. Pullen," continued Mr. Smith. Mr. Miller, leading him up and down the sawdust floor, besought him to listen to reason, and Mr.

"Yes, you pass her house on the way to the station." The German took his leave abruptly, and when he was half-way down the hill he asked some children to direct him. "Is it Biddy M'Hale, that has all the hins, and is going to put up a window in the church, that you're wanting?" The German said that that was the woman he wanted, and the eldest child said:

"If she ain't watched close from this time on, she'll be settin' hins in snowdrifts, and pouring biling water on the daffodils to sprout them." On the first of March, five killdeers flew over in a flock, and a half hour later one straggler crying piteously followed in their wake. "Oh, the mane things!" almost sobbed Mary. "Why don't they wait for it?"

There was not left per man more than ten k'hommers of wheat, three hins of millet, and twelve betzas of dried fruit. No more meat, no more oil, no more salt food, and not a grain of barley for the horses, which might be seen stretching down their wasted necks seeking in the dust for blades of trampled straw.

Smith turned upon him a face all wrinkles, lit by one eye. "I want the hins and the pigs first," he said, firmly. Mr. Miller, shocked at his grasping spirit, stared at him mournfully. "And twenty pounds the day you marry Mrs. Pullen," continued Mr. Smith. Mr. Miller, leading him up and down the sawdust floor, besought him to listen to reason, and Mr.

The idea of Mike's connecting the life of a pig with that stoop was more than he could bear. "Why, Mike," said he, in an injured tone, "that stoop's the place where she's agoin' to set." "Oh! I didn't know, Jim, ye was agoin' to kape hins. Now, ef you're agoin' to kape hins, ye kin do as ye plase, Jim, in coorse; but ye musn't forgit the pig, Jim.

'Hold off, says I, 'and remember what fell to your aunt one day when she sint her hins in to pick a neighbor's piece, and while her own back was turned they all come home and had every sprouted bean and potatie heeled out in the hot sun, and all her fine lettuces picked into Irish lace.

They fell upon a man named Smith, and the dealer, after some thought, took up his glass and went over to him. "I want you to do something for me," he remarked, in a mysterious voice. "Ah, I've been wanting to see you," said Smith, who was also a dealer in a small way. "One o' them hins I bought off you last week is dead." "I'll give you another for it," said Miller.

And the grand little pitaty-cake I had for him; I may be throwin' it to the hins now, unless Molly might fancy a bit; for we 'll not be apt to set eyes on him this three year. Och, wirra! and he that contint at home, and niver a word out of him about the souldierin' this long while.

"Tom Auley's been up watchin' this three nights now," confides the other old gossip. "Thim dirty b'y's troublin' his pigs in the sthy, and having every stramash about the place, all for revinge upon him for gettin' the police afther thim when they sthole his hins. 'T was as well for him too, they're dirty bligards, the whole box and dice of them."