I aint at all poetical, but if there was ever a matter to make a man feel like stringin' rhymes, that evenin' that Crop and I spent on the lower chain of ponds, or little lakes on Bog River, was a thing of that sort.

All of a sudden, it popped into my mind that these 8 hour sons of toil hadent heard that DANIEL WEBSTER was dead, or else dident see the joak, when DAN said: "I aint dead," and supposed from my likeness to him that I was D. WEBSTER.

they aint goin to lay all in a hurry.

I was young and nimble, so I danced a few of the old southern clog dances, and sang one or two songs, like this: "Come along, Sam, the fifer's son, Aint you mighty glad your day's work's done?

"Oh, my golly, Massa Will! aint dis here my lef eye for sartain?" roared the terrified Jupiter, placing his hand upon his right organ of vision, and holding it there with a desperate pertinacity, as if in immediate dread of his master's attempt at a gouge.

" "Mahs' Junius aint got no house," said Aunt Judy, turning around very suddenly.

Dat aint Mahs' Junius' house nohow, though he lib dar as much as he lib anywhar.

"Eh!He's asleep, aint he?" "With kings and counselors," murmured I. * *

John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible?

"Aint there a vast difference between the two? S'pose

and they know we are ready for them, and it aint in Indian nature to throw away their lives charging up a place like this.

Twelve pound weight aint nothing one way or the other.

It wasn't none of your common stealin's an' findin's; an' it aint everywhere you'll see a child that kin git itself lost back of Prince Albert's monnyment, an' git itself found at the operer in Paris, an' attend to both ends of the case itself.

Ah aint much count now.

Us aint never min' workin' for old Marster, cause us got good returns.

Dey aint kotched me yet.

"I aint no country Nigger; I was raised in town.

I aint never work for no common folks.

she aint hear'd me, an' put her lips together dat tight.

Aint none of 'em lef' now.

"I know I aint tol' de sho' 'nough reason Mr. John Gully got killed.

"It aint none o' my business' bout whether de Niggers is better off free dan slaves.

She aint never marry.

finaly shuck de debbil loose an he aint bother me much sence, dat is not very much, an dat am a long time ago.

She aint got no broke leg, she walks as good as me."