Sometimes a "fielder," whose sense of feelin' wasen't very acute, got hold of a cobble stun, then he would waddle, and grope his way about, to find the base.

After the first dreadful stun, I grew wild, running up and down wringing my hands, and gasping prayers to heaven.

"The dove, not bein' a good judge of genuine stuns, made her "Shoo fly" back to the old ark, and told her tail.

Her father had some spunk and took Sam up, but he wuz always sly and looked ahead, and he proved that she wuz a day or two older than the age of consent, and he got let off triumphant and her father had to pay the cost, besides the funeral expenses, and grave stun.

I kep' a stiff upper-lip, an' he grew desp'rate, an' tuk all sorts uv dangerous jobs, blastin' rocks an' haulin' stuns.

Gems, precious stuns, granite, marble and all the processes for cutting and polishing.