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"Don't shoot," he pleaded, ready to drop to his knees. "I won't if you are good and kind and obliging," said Crosby sternly. "Turn around face the engine. That's right. Now listen to me. I've got this pistol jammed squarely against your back, and if you make a false move well, you won't have time to regret it. Answer my questions too. How long is that bridge?" "I I do don't kno ow."

"If she deys in my 'ouse, good sir, w'oat then?" "You mean the expense?" "Just so-it 'll be nae trifle, ye kno'!" The host shakes his head, doubtingly. Tom begs he will not be troubled about that, and gives another assurance from his purse that quite relieves the host's apprehensions. A low, heavy breathing, followed by a return of spasms, bespeaks the sinking condition of the sufferer.

"I'm sorry, ye'd think it needful to ask me, Miss Honor, I'd rather, ye'd kno right well, that I'm only too proud when you ordher me, let alone, axm' me, as if I as your equals," and the poor fellow, looking half sorry as he spoke, touched the girl's heart.

"You sn n n n neaks!" he sobbed, addressing the others, who had flown from all parts at his noisy outcry, "you m-m mean p p p pigs! I h hadn't n n no fo o ow-l, and I've h h had all the b b b beating! y you s s sn n-neaks! oh h h h! ah h h h! oh h h h! oh h h-h! I'm b b bleeding all over, I kno o o ow!"

He came into my shoe-shop the other day with his feet almost bare, and I took the best pair of boots I had and gave them to him. I know he thought of old days, for I did." After talking to the children at school I visited the aged and sick. Anthony Wilson, very aged, said, "Dun kno' how ole I is. White folks say I's more'n eighty.

"But I forgot you don't kno' yes" and he smiled triumphantly. "Yes, Col'nel, I'll let him do all that if if God'll let it be. But God won't let it be!" Colonel Troup arose disgusted hot. "What do you mean, old man. Are you crazy, sah? Give me back my word " "Wait no no," said the Bishop. "Col'nel, you're a man of yo' word wait!" And he arose and was gone. The Colonel swore soundly.

I thote as how it was best to acquent you Honner of this; and for you to let me kno' if I could do any think to sarve your Honner, and prevent mischief with my cuzzen Titus, on his coming back from Nottingam, before he mackes his reporte.

When we would weep we have only to look around and see others who would wail. "When I come I was as rosy as you," Maggie went on; "not so pretty now, mind you nobody could be as pretty as you." She said it simply, but it touched Helen. "But I'll get my color back on the little farm I'll be well again." She was silent a while. "I kno' you are wonderin' how I saved and got it."

It had something that the trees an' birds an' mountains didn't have a soul an' don't you kno' He'll finish all such lives up yonder? He'll pay it back a thousandfold for what he cuts off here." Bud wept because the tears were running down the old man's cheeks. He wanted to say something, but he could not speak. That queer feeling that came over him at times and made him silent had come again.

"Now lem'me see that gyrl " he added sternly "that loom is got to run or you will starve, an' if she's sick I want to kno' it. I've seed her have the toe-ache befo'." The door of the room in which Samantha lay was open, and in plain view of the hall she lay with a look of pain, feigned or real, on her face.