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Nothing but turnin' out the lights. Once, long after Vee should have been asleep. I thought I heard her snifflin', but I dozed off again without makin' any remark. I must have been sawin' wood good and hard, too, when I wakes up to find her shakin' me by the shoulder. "Listen, Torchy," she's sayin'. "Isn't that Buddy's bark?" "Eh? Buddy?" says I. "How could it be?" "But it is!" she insists.

I'll let Fallon break you into sawin' an put Stromberg to teamin'; he's too pot-gutted fer a sawyer." Moncrossen produced a bottle as the others seated themselves. "What don't drink?" he exclaimed, as Bill passed the bottle to Dunnigan. "That's so; b'lieve I did hear some one say you didn't use no booze.

Once I hears the off-leader tell his mate that the jockey stick is sawin' him onder the chin. I investigates an' finds the complaint troo an' relieves him. The nigh swing mule is a wit; an' all day long he'd be throwin' off remarks that keeps a ripple of laughter goin' up an' down the team. You-all finds trouble creditin' them statements. Fact, jest the same.

Bird-o'-Freedom Sawin sing: "'Ef you take a soaord an droar it, An go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment won't answer for it, God'll send the bill to you! This was slightly audacious and irreverent in expression, but it was remarkably popular in New England at that time.

I told her she wasn't to go for a few days yet, because we were sawin' the Kingfisher's stump up into a rustic sate for her, and we were goin' to carry her out to it, and she was to sit there and sew, and umpire the fishin', and whichiver bait she told the Bass to take, that one of us would be gettin' it.

Into this we warped the ship, and hoistin' sail, steered away cheerily. We passed close to the Bullfinch, which was still hard and fast in the pack, and we saw that her crew were sawin' and cuttin' away at the ice, tryin' to get into the lead that we'd got into. So we hailed them, and said we would wait for 'em outside the pack, if we got through.

"I was sawin' awa wi' a' my micht," Rob said, "an' little Rob was haudin' the booards, for they were silly but things, when something made me look at the window. It couldna hae been a tap on't, for the birds has used me to that, an' it would hardly be a shadow, for little Rob didna look up. Whatever it was, I stoppit i' the middle o' a booard, an' lookit up, an' there I saw Jamie McQumpha.

"'Ain't he hell! says 'Doby, a heap gleeful, at the same time sawin' the infant onto Billy direct. "Of course Billy has to hold him then. Which he acts like he's a hot tamale, an' shifts him about in his arms. But it's plain he ain't so displeased neither. At last the kid reaches out swift an' cinches onto Billy's beard that a-way.

"We been a sawin' up an' down all night, but the old man he kep' on his close spite o' wind an' high water." "I thought we were turning over several times," said Marjorie, as she took her place at table. "Blowed lak' she never blowed befo'," opined Doc. "But we done come home." "What do you mean?" asked Locke. "Didn' yo' see the islan'?"

So also is the name of Professor Agassiz, of whom I have spoken. Russell Lowell is one of the professors of the college that Russell Lowell who sang of Birdofredum Sawin, and whose Biglow Papers were edited with such an ardor of love by our Tom Brown, Birdofredum is worthy of all the ardor. Mr.