"Le' 's have 'em weighed," suggested a widow, Ruby Lee, with a pretty, well-preserved little face and figure, "an' ef tergether they don't come up to the heartiest one of us" Miss Abigail made hasty interruption: "Gals, hain't yew never noticed that the more yew need the more yew git?

She is as thick as she is high-And gits drunk at Least three or foure

" "Can't no hoss git through these drifts," came from Jack Ness.

Ain't you foun' out yit when a he-nigger an' a she-nigger gits to peepin' at each udder, whut dey says don't lib in de same neighbo'hood wid whut dey does?" This was delivered with such energy that it completely undermined the Captain's faith in Peter, and the fact angered the old gentleman.

May the divil git howld of his soul.

"'Git out'n de road, you fool nigger,' says Mars Marrabo, 'does yer wanter git run ober?

he wuz sho' he wuz gwine ter die, so he up'n says ter ole marster: "'Mars Dugal',' sezee, 'I knows I's be'n a monst'us bad nigger, but befo' I go I wanter git

That would be all right if 'ye was the only man that was scootin', but if there was anything t' be made by it, there'd be more than a million sleds on the way, an' ye couldn't sell yer stuff for so much as ye git here.

Sez he, "You don't want to buy here; you can do as well agin in Jonesville tradin' off your butter and eggs, and probable git a chromo throwed in.