I reckon I'm up a little bit in all sech things," he said airily enough.

Let me hear no more sech talk.

"Wot for'd an ole woman like me want to put on any sech fool finery?

I don' know what ter make er no sech gwines-on, I don't.

He don't like no sech tricks wid his horses.

Then Ah calls out to huh that Ah ain't go'n' a' have no sech foolishness in this yeh place, an' so she stahts to come up, which fohces me to retiah huhiedly.

If Doctor Kittredge says it's safe, perfec'ly safe, I can't objec' to your goin', on sech conditions as seem to be fair to all concerned.

Of co'se sech conduct ez that is worrisome, but I don't see no, to say, bad principle in it.

A man oughter feel willin' to be skelped by sech tender-hearted critters.

De King's chillens can't stoop ter any sech decepshuns.

I haven't never felt no call ter marry, 's I sed; but if I had I wouldn't ha' been caught cuttin' up no sech didos's that,a-throwin' away years o' time they might ha' hed together '

Yo' not go'n' a' stravagate all that theh gole money on sech crazy doin's an' mek us be indigent in ouah ole aige.

Sech ez that has to be worked into a person's constitution in youth.

Ah, that's jest the wust o' sech fakes!

"Ain' no great hand fer sech flummydiddles," said he, as he put the medal away.

This wa'n't no sech gentleman.

hed. I never did see sech luck!

Th' ain't anything much mo' tantalizin' to a person than uncertainty in sech matters.

Two sech obligin' young fellers I never did see, an' never expect ter agin in this world.

Better thet all our ships an' all their crews Should sink to rot in ocean's dreamless ooze, Each torn flag wavin' chellenge ez it went, An' each dumb gun a brave man's moniment, Than seek sech peace ez only cowards crave: Give me the peace of dead men or of brave!

That's the gentleman that he calls "the Professor," and I'm sure I hope there is sech a man; only all I can say is, I never see him, and none of my boarders ever see him, and that smart young man that I was speakin' of says he don't believe there's no sech person as him, nor that other one that he called "the Poet."

I decla' dey ain't no niggah woman in dis heah town got sech quality to work fo' as dis old niggah has.

"I never seen a lady eat cup-custards with sech relish.

But he done it; an' 'mo' 'n that, he remarked in the letter thet it would give him great pleasure to meet the boy thet had so many mutual friends in common with him, or some sech remark.

"I declare," he said, when the sneezing had subsided, "I never did see no sech snuff.