"Fact is, I'm a little upset an' I mean bizness.

Bill, p'raps ye kin look arter the coffee part o' the bizness.

hain't got no Bizness on the Plains, nohow.

I've seen 'em signalin' all the afternoon, and signalin' allers means bizness with them red varmints.

Boys hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how.

I'll help you so fur's I'm able; but don't depend too much on me, fur boys hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how.

After descending from the tree, I found Jerry in anything but an amiable mood, at "the idee of an old hunter like he was, bein' treed by a lot of hogs;" and, as usual, he declared that "them cussid boys" was to blame, "for boys hadn't no bizness on the plains, no how.

The critter didn't give me no fair show; he lit right onter my shoulder here, and's tared it some I reckon, by the feel; howsoever, we kin git at it easy anyway, but if it hadn't a bin for them boyswell, boys haint got no bizness on the plains, no how.

Ef it hadn't a bin for you boyswell, boys hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how.

It's true enuff though, that they've got the youngsters, and it's likely we kin git 'em agin, though I've always telled you, boys hain't no bizness on the plains, no how.

Boys as a gineral thing hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how; but these are a-goin' to larn Injin fightin', sartin.

I didn't like fannin' much, and used ter tease the old folks ter let me go down ter Knoxville and go into a store, or enter inter some other ekelly 'spectable bizness.

Tom Pope asserted the boy was a "born Injin hunter," and old Jerry declared that he was "willing to make a 'ception, so fur as Ned was concarned, though he'd be darned if he'd do it for t'other one; for boys like him hadn't no bizness on the plains, no how.

" "What bizness hes gals riding round in them sky-buggies," stormed the farmer; "ef any darter uv mine did it

" "No; my wife usually 'tends to the town bizness, while I run the church and farm.

[Illustration: "WOT'S OUR NOO M.P.'S BIZNESS?" "'E'S IN THE JOBMASTERING LINE I THINK.

Us neber did leave our folkses eben atter de War ober and de niggers git dey freedom, yit an' still a heap of de niggers did leave dey mars' and a heap of dem didn' an' us stayed on an farmed de lan' jus' like us been doin' 'cept dey gib us a contract for part de crop an' sell us our grub 'gainst us part of de crop and take dey money outen us part of de cotton in de fall just like de bizness is done yit

dem till she 'rives an' tell her she habe to see dat all de bizness wind up and take de boys back wid her an' keep dem till dey is growed,' "Well, boss, us done jus' like Mars Luch tell us to do an' us sure feel sorry for dem two little boys.

Mars Luch daid, Miss Ellen come on de boat one night an' she stayed some days windin' up de bizness and den she lef' an' take de boys 'way wid her back to Virginny where she libed.

No I be ding if Ile igscuse you says Pa, 1st come 1st served is the rool of bizness all over.

En ef you er a good nigger en min's yo' bizness, I'll gib you Chloe fer a wife nex' spring.

"'I 'lows dat's none er yo' bizness, nigger.

Got sick o' the circus bizness, and went into potatoes deep.

And this saloonkeeper, helped on by Perkins, had the name of the most active boy and girl ruiner among the thousands in the city, though they all did a flourishin' bizness.

Then, Sir, you'll 'ave a bit o' garding as'll be the pride o' yer eye, and a tidy bit o' profit into the bargain, or I don't know my bizness.