The chances are small of yees iver gitting another glimpse of heaventhat is, of Miss Cora's face.

"Wa'al," he said, at length, pulling himself together with a visible effort, "thar's no chance of gitting ther fire ingines, so it'll hev ter go, I guess.

I ain't been gitting any good luck at poker, lately.

At last, when I were gitting a old man, and not much use by reason of the rheumatiz and stiffness in the jints, there was a mutiny in our ship when we was off the Cape; and the captain and mate they was killed.

It would be the hardest work of me life to stay here when I thought there's a chance of gitting a whack at that thaiving villian.