WHAT THE DOOCE MADE ME TELL 'EM I'D ONCE DRUV A DONKEY!"]

Dey was drowing stones at him, and a man dat was paintin' de house druv 'em away.

"Do ye mean as I killed Cap'n Wegg an' druv 01' Will crazy, an' robbed the house?" His features were fairly contorted, and his colorless eyes rolled fearfully.

" "Ye druv in with the widder woman?" "Yas.

I druv in with her; but I walked back.

"'Twas the Impire that backed the man that druv me onto the roadside.

Rack Slimson, my most payin' customer, hadda sleep on the dinin' room table all night because you druv him out of his room.

I don't think Rack oughta hafta pay, because he wouldn't 'a' had to sleep there on the table only bein' druv out thataway he couldn't help it like.

"Old Ben's all right, He's druv five year and never was struck.

Ewers, white as the druv snow, HIRAM GREEN, Esq., Lait Gustise of the Pees.

I done druv him off wunst.

I've druv lots of people in here to look at that barn, though, to be sure, not since these young people has been livin' here, but they won't mind it an eighth of an inch.

I once druv there in the daytime, an' it tuk me four hours, an' if you went to-night you couldn't get there afore daylight.

I couldn't marry Rachel now, if Mary Ann was dead, we've been druv so fur apart.

We soon druv into the beggest pleace I wur ever in since I wur born'd.

Masser Mile, now I know dat de rascal at Clawbonny get druv' off!

I waited the foive minuts, but he niver came, so off I druv to Misther Hollams, and he threated me han'some, sor."

You'd 'a' seen families druv right out of their homes, with no horses, tents, money, nor a day's provisions,jest a little foolish household stuff they could carry in their hands,sick men and women carried on beds, mothers luggin' babies and leadin' children.

That's what a President of the United States said to descendants of Mayflower crossers who'd been foully dealt with, and been druv from their substance and their homes, their wheat burned in the stack and in the shock, and themselves butchered or put into the wilderness.

" "But father and mother, surely" "Your pa and ma was druv in here with the rest, like cattle to the slaughter.

You see he'd a fortune left him, but he run straight through it buying the goldarndest things you ever heerd tell oncalves with six legs, dogs with three eyes or two tails, steers that could be druv most as well as hosses (Barnum he got hold o' 'em and tuk 'em round with his show); all sorts o' curious fowl and every outlandish critter he could lay his hands on.

An', fact, I thought it was the wind a spell, Then some misdoubted,couldn't fairly tell, Fust sure, then not, jest as you hold an eel, I knowed, an' didn't,fin'lly seemed to feel 'T was Concord Bridge a-talkin' off to kill With the Stone Spike thet's druv thru Bunker Hill: Whether't was so, or ef I only dreamed, I couldn't say; I tell it ez it seemed.

"'She's druv him crazy,' a man shouted.

Well, poor Mrs. Byrne kep' turnin' it over in her mind, but she raly couldn't bring herself to mention it, nor wouldn't, on'y she was druv to it at the end, the crature, with me bein' ill so long, an' the rent comin' so heavy on her an' all.

Kep' prickin' 'im ev'ry lunge 'n' druv 'im off the boardstumbled 'im head over heels int' the crowd.