"Hearing them wolves howlin'," said Hank Martin, as we sat in the evening around our camp fire, "reminds me of a story Mark Shuff tells of his experience with the critters; but mind, I don't pretend to swear to its truth, for I don't claim to know anything about the facts myself.

"'Twenty odd years ago,' said the old pilot, as he lighted his pipe and seated himself on the head of a whisky-keg, 'there warn't a great many people along the Ohio, except Ingins and bears, and we didn't like to cultivate a very close acquaintance with either of them, for the Ingins were cheatin', deceivin', and scalpin' critters, and the bears had an onpleasant way with 'em, that people of delicate narves didn't like.

"We're a nice set ter talk erbout dewin' somethin'a passel o' poor ole critters like us!"

"I hate the very sight o' them air pesky critters," he explained half apologetically.

Do you think THEODORE TILTON, ED STUDWELL, STEVE GRISWOLD, FRED DUGLIS, and SOOSAN B. ANTHONY would make as good Presidents of the U.S. as a man would? Is your wife one of them strong-minded critters, who believes that husbands had orter stay home and nuss the baby while she goes out and plays baseball?

Woman in her natural element, is jest one of the soothinest institutions in this ere land, which flows with milk-punch and houey-sope, and what poor miserable critters man would be without her.

Sumpin' seems to pull the critters back, an' they break away from human kind to roam the woods an' hunt ther livin'.

After a square meal o' missionary, the critters fall asleep, and they don't never wake up neither.

Fairies are tiny little critters with wings like those on one of our dragonflies.

Caught in the shower of lead and flint We felt the old stage stagger and plunge; Then we heerd the voice and the whip of Ben, As he gethered his critters up again, And tore away with a lunge.

I jis' hadn't th' heart t' put th' critters in it as long as th' ole one stood up.

They're right ornery critters.

She'll come here when I'm milkin', an' ask me things about the critters an' craps that I knowed when I was a baby.

And we got to have fat horses and fat cattle, not these bony critters with no juice in 'em.

But there it isand I don't believe the critters will let many of these vile apostates get beyond the rocky walls of Zion."

Throw your bridles on your horses' necks: they will go a deal safer so than if you were leading them; the critters can pick their way anywhere if they have got time and can look about.

If they were coming along in the dark it would be a different thing; but they would not go a horse's length afore they missed our tracks, and even if we muffle the critters' feet, they are strong enough to send a party each way.

"We may as well take the critters down at once," he said; "it may be two or three miles before we can find a place where we can get out of this valley, and there aint no use making two journeys of it.

I find that there have been some queer decisions handed down by the courts, showin' that the law does recognize the fact that a dog is different from other four-footed critters.

A houn' that ain't happy at best, he's melancholy; an' a houn' that ain't allowed to run free is of all critters the wretchedest.

"He wasn't goin' to let in a lot of curious critters to hear what Dick was talkin'," he said to his mother and Melinda, his haggard face showing how much he had endured in keeping them at bay, and answering through the key-hole their numerous inquiries.

It was a near thing for us, but the American hog responded noblyand a good many other critters as well, I suspectand when it came on toward delivery day we found that we had the actual lard to turn over on our short contracts, and some to spare.

I was waked up by these critters squawkin' over my haouse; I fired up chimbly, and daown tumbled the whole gang; the fire burnt off the feathers and roasted um up braown afore I could get at um."

WHAT DUMB CRITTERS SAYS The cat-bird poorty nigh splits his throat, Ef nobody's thar to see.

So he starts in to tell me that 'stock didn't necessarily mean beef critters,' and a lot more things, whilst old man Ferguson, who was putting the deal through, stood listening and chewing his teeth, thinking I was going to give our friend the frolicsome hee-hee at the wind-up.