Well, they meets, let's say, at a public, and one says to another, 'I say, Bill,' he says, 'that there dawg as you found 'longs to Lawyer Orkins; he's bloomin' fond o' dawgs, is Lawyer Orkins, so they say, and he can pay for it.'

and you're me, sir; no offence, I hope'Well, I wants the dawg back.'

Well, they says; leastways, I ses, ses I, "'Lawyer Orkins, you lost a dawg, 'ave yer?' "'Yes,' ses you, 'I have,' like a gennelmanexcuse my imitation, sir' and I don't keer a damn for the whelp!'

" "Very good; what am I to say next, Mr. Linton?" "'Don't yer?' says the tother feller; 'then what the h are yer looken arter him for?' "'Well,' you ses, Mr. Orkins, 'you can go to h. I don't keer for the dawg; he ain't my fancy.'

o' the bag, and what I could ha' done had you consulted me sooner I can't do now; I could ha' got him for a fi'-pun note at one time, but they've worked on your feelins, and, mark my words, they'll want twenty pun as the price o' that there dawg, as sure as my name's Sam Linton.

That's all I got to say, Mr. Orkins, and I thought I'd come and warn yer like a manhe's got into bad hands, that there dawg.

Would you believe it, Mr. Orkins, a gennelman comes to me, and he ses, 'Sam,' he ses, 'I want to find a little pet dawg as belonged to a lidy'which was his wife, in courseand he ses the lidy was nearly out of her mind.

'Well,' I ses, 'sir, to be 'onest with you, don't you mention that there fact to anybody but me'because when a lidy goes out of her mind over a lorst dawg up goes the price, and you can't calculate bank-rate, as they ses.

Well, they sold this gennelman's animal to a major, and the reason why he couldn't be had for a little while was that the major, being fond on him, and 'avin' paid a good price for the dawg, it would ha' been cruel if he did not let him have the pleasure of him like for a few daysor a week.

I CAN'T TEACH MY OLD DAWG AT HOME TO DO ANYTHINK.

"AH, BUT YER SEE, MATEY, YOU 'AVE TO KNOW MORE 'N A DAWG, OR YER CAN'T LEARN 'IM NUTHIN."] * * * *

Presently in the hullabaloo, Peter heard Dawson Bobbs's voice shouting: "Aunt Mahaly, if you kain't call off this dawg, I'm shore goin' to kill him.

Don't be what yo ain't, jess yo be what yo is, If yo am not what yo are den yo is not what you is, If yo're jess a little tadpole, don't yo try to be de frog; If yo are de tail, don't yo try to wag de dawg.

" "Where's their place?" "Out in the kennel wid the dawg!" said Ardelia, shaking with laughter.

"Yoicks, old dawg!" exclaimed the Third Hand, patting his knee encouragingly.

That thar dawg's the quickest dawg on earth.

That thar dawg's the quickest dawg on earth.

One feller whipped out his knife and throwed it at Tigeand he come mighty nigh makin' dawg-meat outa him, too.

"Get that dawg outdoors, then," he panted, "or I'll kill him sure.

"And I'm willing to take a whirl with yuh any old time; any dawg that'll lick the boots of a man like you had ought to be shot for not having more sense.

"Come back here, and drag your dawg outside," commanded Billy, and the Pilgrim obeyed.

"The girl, and the dawg, and the fightbut more especially the girl.

" "Uh-huhhe said something about you shooting that dawg of his.

The dawg tried to feed offa my leg.

Or, did the girl" "Aw, the darned dawg mussed up the floor, dying in here," Billy apologized weakly.