" "Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites And show the best of femail spites, So teach that horrid critter, man, We'll swaller him hul, when ere we can."

Resolved: That when the mail rase is extinguished, the superior critter, woman, take peaceable possession of the ballit box.

Everybody was surprised, as well as disgusted, that such a homely "critter" should be the winner.

Brigham, of course, had already acquired a wide reputation, and his name and exploits had often appeared in the newspapers, and when it was learned that this "critter" was none other than the identical buffalo-hunting Brigham, nearly the whole crowd admitted that they had heard of him before, and had they known him in the first place they certainly would have ruled him out.

So I trudged on after the obstinate "critter," and if there ever was a government mule that deserved and received a good round cursing it was that one.

A skunk is a critter that bites when your back is turned and runs when you look it in the eye.

" "Which don't amount to shucks, so long as the cause of sientific farmin is benifitted, by showin bugs that the superior critter man is too many meesles for the animile kingdom," was his reply.

Why, I got double price for the critter, see?" "There's something else," announced Andy seriously.

"Suppose the desperate critter sh'd have a knife," thought the Elder.

"She was imported from the fur East while you was away; called on in a hurry to take the place of Mrs. Pears, who died on us, right in the midst of the last term, poor critter.

"Th' critter's gone, sure enough!"

brought the critter?" "Whar he's gone?

I know that 'ere critter's ways.

there ain't any virtue in the olive-oil; besides, I might grease my gloves,' why I feel like telling such a Godless critter to walk off.

The critter with claws.

© 3May49; B189727. Michael Fessier (A); 16Dec76; R653067. R653068. Fightin' critter.

"I hope he's told who the critter was that was took sick in the house," Mrs. Markham said, as she adjusted her glasses and broke the seal.

I simply mention this little incident as an example of the fact that popularity is a mighty uncertain critter and a mighty unsafe one to hitch your wagon to.

The fact of the matter is, that the race-horse, the faro tiger, and the poker kitty have bigger appetites than any healthy critter has a right to have; and after you've fed a tapeworm, there's mighty little left for you.

You can make the purse and you can fill it, too, from the same critter.

Bill would pick up an old critter whose par value was the price of one horse-hide, and after it had been pulled and shoved into his stable, the boys would stand around waiting for crape to be hung on the door.

You wouldn't have me violate a confidence as affected the repertashun of a pore dumb critter, and her of the opposite sect, would you?"

"What, you be a minister?" "Yes," said the dunce, "are we not commanded in the holy book to preach the gospel to every critter?"

"Verily," was the reply; "but every critter is not commanded to preach the gospel.

When Aleck laid a flipper on a cayuse's back, you'd think the critter was blanketed.