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One's just as handsome as the other, too." A delighted smile exposed the girl's white teeth, and she said: "Bless yo' soul, Misto Wilson, it's pow'ful nice o' you to say dat, 'ca'se one of 'em ain't on'y a nigger. Mighty prime little nigger, I al'ays says, but dat's 'ca'se it's mine, o' course." "How do you tell them apart, Roxy, when they haven't any clothes on?"

We possess these several drafts of constitutions. Some recommend tyranny; some incline to aristocracy, or what Italians called Governo Stretto; some to democracy, or Governo Largo; some to an eclectic compound of the other forms, or Governo Misto. More consummate masterpieces of constructive ingenuity can hardly be imagined.

In fact he declares for that Utopia of the sixteenth century the Governo Misto a political invention which fascinated the imagination of Italian statesmen much in the same way as the theory of perpetual motion attracted scientific minds in the last century. What follows is an elaborate scheme for applying the principles of the Governo Misto to the existing state of things in Florence.

"Captain Wells," interrupted Bill slowly, and again Mayhall stared hard at him, "as betwixt friends, as have been pussonal friends fer nigh onto twenty year, I hope you won't mention that little matter to me ag'in until I mentions it to you." "But, Misto Richmond, Hence Sturgill out thar says as how he heerd you say that if I didn't pay "

But I ain' gwyne to resk no mo' money in stock. De cow up 'n' died on my han's." "So you lost the ten dollars." "No, I didn't lose it all. I on'y los' 'bout nine of it. I sole de hide en taller for a dollar en ten cents." "You had five dollars and ten cents left. Did you speculate any more?" "Yes. You know that one-laigged nigger dat b'longs to old Misto Bradish?

Thus, in autumn it unites in immense flocks, which keep together during the winter months and sing in concert and do not break up until the return of the breeding season. In a country where there were no bird-catchers or human persecutors of small birds, the flocks of this finch, called Misto by the natives, were far larger than any linnet flocks ever seen in England.

"Misto' Jeeves done give me them purple socks, as you told him. Thank yo' very much, suh!" I looked down. The blighter was a blaze of mauve from the ankle-bone southward. I don't know when I've seen anything so dressy. "Oh, ah! Not at all! Right-o! Glad you like them!" I said. Well, I mean to say, what? Absolutely! "'Morning, Jeeves," I said. "Good morning, sir," said Jeeves.

They supped on minestra and fritto misto washed down with the red wine of Grotta del Monte, which, their host assured them, was famous through all the country. He could not believe that they had never heard of it in Valedolmo. People sent for it from far off, even from Verona. They finished their supper and the famous wine, but there was still no diligence.

"How should I know! I wish to heaven I'd never seen you!" I cried. "Look what you've done! You've lost me my wife, you've lost me my home and happiness, you've you've " "Misto Hallock," came from the hall outside, "Misto Hallock, I's gwine t' quit. I don't like no hoodoos." And the steps retreated. "You've you've lost me my cook " "I didn't come here to be abused," said the ghost coldly.

'Et neq; jam color est misto candore rubori; Nec Vigor, et Vires, et quae modo visa placebant; Nec Corpus remanet ... Ov. 'Met. Lib. 3. There was as great a Change in the Hill of Mony Bags, and the Heaps of Mony, the former shrinking, and falling into so many empty Bags, that I now found not above a tenth part of them had been filled with Mony.