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"'Fore God, you-all oughten ter look like that!" The man threw up his head, and laughed, laughed as the wild, reckless and lost Brian Kent had laughed that black night when, in the drifting boat, he had cursed the life he was leaving and had drunk his profane toast to the darkness into which he was being carried.

I'll bet she is just sneezing the top of her head off." Wall, sir, you just oughten seen that girl and Pa.

"Well," was the reply, "you see it's this way: Last winter I went down to Arkansas visitin', and while I was there I went to church, and it was called 'Piscopal, and I he'rd them say 'that they left undone the things what they'd oughter done and they had done some things what they oughten done, and I says to myself, says I: 'That's my fix exac'ly, and ever since I considered myself a 'Piscopalian."

I pulled his coat and said, 'Pa how do you spose Ma's hay fever is to-night, I'll bet she is just sneezing the top of her head off. Wall, sir, you just oughten seen that girl and Pa.

Two dead this mornin'. Four more oughten be dead by let's see why, time's up now! t'houten be dead now! By how's that? You aint foolin', hey? Big fine fur foolin' the wagon man, you know. Now say, if any on 'em's near gone it'll do, you know. Save me bother, an' you too, don't you see?

"Look at me, Judy." She sent a stealthy, oblique glance in his direction. "You must tell me." "I done started ter tell you-all onct, that time pap ketched me, an' you-all 'lowed as how I oughten ter tell nothin' 'bout Auntie Sue to nobody." "But it is different now, Judy," returned Brian. "Something has happened that makes it necessary for me to know."

All dead an' old timber must be cut, an' much of thet where the trees are crowded. The north slopes must be cut enough to let in the sun an' light. Brush, windfalls rottin' logs must be burned. Thickets of young pine must be thinned. Care oughten be taken not to cut on the north an' west edges of the forests, as the old guard pines will break the wind."

"Judge," he said at length, "eight thousand pounds of money oughter make a powerful big pile, oughten it?" "It wouldn't weigh quite that much ef you put it on the scales," explained His Honour painstakingly. "I mean pounds sterlin' English money. Near ez I kin figger offhand, it comes in our money to somewheres between thirty-five and forty thousand dollars nearer forty than thirty-five.

There was a troubled note in Auntie Sue's gentle voice as she returned, "The letter from the bank did not come, Judy." "Hit didn't?" "No; and, Judy, it is nearly four weeks, now, since I sent them that money. I can't understand it." "I was plumb scared at the time, you oughten ter sent hit just in er letter that a-way.

"Judge," he said at length, "eight thousand pounds of money oughter make a powerful big pile, oughten it?" "It wouldn't weigh quite that much ef you put it on the scales," explained His Honor painstakingly. "I mean pounds sterlin' English money. Near ez I kin figger offhand, it comes in our money to somewheres between thirty-five and forty thousand dollars nearer forty than thirty-five.