but she did not 'low us to tech a book wid us hands.

Hans Schuyler has not got the wheel to-nightyou see he was three sheets in the wind anyhow, and the captain, says, 'Hans,' says he, 'don't tech another drop this night, or we'll never see another mornin' till we are resurrected,'

"Yass, 'm, but he make his promise to Miss Flo'a he won't tech de gun hisseff."

We all tried to indoose 'im. I offered him everything on the farm ef he'd thess roll up his little sleeve an' let the doctor look at his armpromised him thet he wouldn't tech a needle to it tell he said the word.

" "Don't you tech a thing!"

build sure in the beginning', An' then don't never tech the underpinnin': Th' older a Guv'ment is, the better 't suits; New ones hunt folks's corns out like new boots: Change jest for change is like those big hotels Where they shift plates, an' let ye live on smells.

She said when dey com'd down yere she wanted all de men to hide, for dey'd kill all de men, but dey wouldn't tech de women.