"We hain't takin' no chances with gents like ye be," he said.

"We ain't askin' any questions o' youand we ain't takin' any answers," said the foreman, sitting down promptly.

'They're in here, are they?' sez he, takin' the bag.

"Thank you," says the Boy, "but we're not takin' any bundles to-day.

Storms takin' 'em away here and war in them other countries.

" "No." "Where you takin' 'em?" "Down to the Oklahoma.

Still I may be still takin' my grub here when some of these young whiskey drinkin razzin' around young chaps is under the dirt.

Where you takin' them guns to?" There was a new rail fence close in front of the Zouaves, barring their way to the bridge; and suddenly, from behind it, men arose with levelled muskets; and the Zouaves dropped flat to the volley that buried the fence in smoke.

But, if you insist on goin' ahead and earnin' your daily peck by smashin' things and layin' out the onsofisticated, all I have got to say is, that next time you've got a sure thing to make a speck, by telegrafin' me at Skeensboro, I won't mind comin' down and takin' a hand in, if my pocketin' a few hundred thousands will be the means of betterin' your morrils, by my sharin' your burden.

Ain't she takin' the kinks out of her speed?

Would ye mind takin' a letter from me to Rosey, and bringin' back an answer?" Renshaw stared speechlessly at this absurd realization of his wish of a moment before.

But if you find a painter, or a bear, takin' a nap in your path, and don't want to have a clinch with him, wake him up before you get right onto him, or he'll be very likely to think he's cornered, and them animals have onpleasant ways with 'em when they're in that fix.

Seen em takin' the niggers out and whip em and kick em around.

We wouldn't a yielded to him, thoo an' thoo, that-a-way ag'in ef his little foot hadn't a' been so swole, an' he maybe takin' his death o' cold settin' out in the po'in'-down rain; but things bein' as they was, we went thoo it with all due respects.

Do you think, takin an iron clad oath has got anything to do with a sertin commandment which says, "Thou shalt not steel"? Are you a beleiver in E. CADY STANTON'S revoolushinary idees, that woman is the "coming man," and if so, how do you like it as fur as yoo've got?

" He said it wuz now plain to him that it meant that these three drummers should stand before Annanias, the Prince of Liars, he takin' his place behind 'em, the fourth in the rank of liars.

" "I'm not takin' that much praise to myself, lad; but do claim, because of havin' had more experience, to be better fitted for the work, after we are once arrived, than are you.

We wouldn't a yielded to him, thoo an' thoo, that-a-way ag'in ef his little foot hadn't a' been so swole, an' he maybe takin' his death o' cold settin' out in the po'in'-down rain; but things bein' as they was, we went thoo it with all due respects.

"That ain't the question," he said virtuously; "we ain't takin' this step to make a card sharp out of him.

and I know taint no use to lie, I takin' my time.

"I expect they'll be takin' a walk aroond verra soon, tae.

HEAD Well, as I was sayin', I might be in America, or New York, Boston, Chicago, or any o' thim foreign places, an' you might be in this very house, or up in your sister's house, or takin' a walk down the town, an' I'd think o' some thought, an' at that very second you'd think o' the same thought, an' nayther of us would know that we were both thinkin' o' the same thing.

But 'ee says you allus were a mean one with your moneyan you knew that 'ee knew itfor 'ee 'd stopped you takin an unfair advantage more nor once.

"Says he, lookin' at me casual like over his shoulder: 'I'm jest takin' a stroll an' whistlin'.

They ain't takin' no advice from old folks.