Mr. Jones, who had departed as soon as the walls of the house were raised, used often to say of him, and it was intended as great praise, "That Tom is a riglar Yankeea rael go-a-head!"

Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom was not a circumstance to any one of the dozens he points out.

Tom and Dick are our guests.

Now Tom was a fisherman, and a big trout was his weakness; moreover, he was never without half a dozen hooks and lines in his pockets.

Naturally, Tom became a nine-days' wonder on the plantation.

There isn't a scratch on Blackhawk, and if Tom's" "There's no scratch on me either," returned the boy.

(TOM is again at the door.) DICK:

" Tom became gardener.

Nancy Sparrow was his faithful nurse, while Tom was hands and feet to his mother.

" To which Clara answered by trying to find out how much he did know: but Tom was a cunninger diplomatist than she; and in ten minutes, after having given solemn promises of secresy, and having, by strong expressions of contempt for Mrs. Heale and the village gossips, made Clara understand that he did not at all take their view of the case, he had poured out to him across the counter all Clara's long-pent indignation and contempt.

my heart, if Tom should fail! See the vapors, white as curd, By the waking winds are stirred, And the east is brightening slow Tom is long a-field, I know!

But Tom is the very model of an actor, and Terry is grand, if only we can keep him out of the high tragedy line.

Tom was a Virginian, as I was, and was sold from his parents when a mere lad.

TOM was the thief, and the offender must be punished.

" "Yes, Sandy, and when black Sally ran away with your young mistress and Tom, when Tom was a baby, who stopped the runaway, and saved their lives at the risk of his own?

But Tom had been the subject of all the little tenderness of my life, perhaps he became so because I knew so well how to pity him.

[Illustration] Tom was a splendid shot, and this was his first bear.

* Tom was time-keeper.

Because, I suppose, amid all differences, he had found one point of likeness between himself and Thurnall; he had found that Tom at heart was a truly genuine man, sincere and faithful to his own scheme of the universe.

Tom is the gayest, the blithest Creature!

" Remembering Jerry's remark, that Tom was a Comanche scout, I asked him if he had had much experience with that tribe.

"Well, if Tom wouldn't do, there's no use talkin' 'bout Dick and Harry; fer Tom is the smartest o' that bunch.

Tom is a preacher of the reformed Baptist church, and has always been a faithful servant."

"Well, if Tom wouldn't do, there's no use talkin' 'bout Dick and Harry; fer Tom is the smartest o' that bunch.

William was the oldest, Tom was the second, and Giles was the youngest.