"And a durned hard ride it's been many a time.

Tansy tea be durned!" Abe failed perceptibly during the summer, grew feebler as the autumn winds blew in, and by November he took to his bed and the physician of the Home, a little whiffet of a pompous idiot, was called to attend him.

"We buy nothin' an' we sell every durned thing we raise.

Then, mebbe, I'll help ye to rechristen the durned thing.

He had th' grit an' pluck an' vim, So he's on Easy Street, an' durned If I don't think his luck is earned!

"If that durned Miss Panney," he continued, "keeps on tellin' that to the people, things will be a cussed sight worse than me a livin' here without decent vittles, an' Phoebe a boardin' that minister that ain't paid no board yit.

"Durned if youse ain't der liveliest kid I ever seen!" muttered the astonished ruffian.

Why, I've seen young folks so durned fussy about their grandmas and grandpas, trying to keep 'em from putterin' around, that the old folks just nacherally folded their hands and set down and died, havin' nothin' else to do.

You're too durned fat to move around

It makes a fella feel so durned patriotic he is like to forget he ain't doin' nothin' hisself.

Placer, and durned good placer, right on the top of the ground.

He ate the little cakes and biscuit, and said they were the durned best he ever tasted.

"How do you do?" "Durned if we ain't right back where we started from," mourned Red to himself.

"Durned if she ain't laughing at me!"

I'm a stock-broker myself,' he says, 'but none of these durned rich ones, so if you can stand for once to eat a meal not exceedin' five dollars in price, why, come along!' says he.

"I have read some'ers," said Mr. Scraggs, "that some man whose name was a durned sight more important to him than it is to me, for I've plumb forgot it, said that he never begun nothin' unless he could see the end of it.

If neither one nor t'other's in it it's a durned uninterestin' occurrence, anyhow.

It wasn't Injuns; it was a lot of Uncle Sam's durned soldiers.

That's how the gol-durned thing started.

"Sorry be durned!" shouted the grocer.

Si scratched his head a minute, then answered decisively: "I'll be durned if I'll work for that!" LADIES See Etiquet; Woman.