All that she desires shall be 'ers, for am I not a rich man?" I shook my head.

I'm goin' to buy a 'at wiv ita 'at like 'ers: d'yer mind?"

Weren't there, Sam?" "Yes, sir," said Mr. Wilks, in a voice which he strove hard to make distinct; "especially 'ers.

"THE FLOW-ERS AP-PEAR ON THE EARTH.

Now the win-ter cold is past, And blithe March winds are blow-ing, In shel-ter-ed nooks we find at last Bright flow-ers of spring are grow-ing.

" A-PRIL SHOW-ERS.

"Thou makest the earth soft with show-ers: Thou bless-est the spring-ing there-of.

Should God for-bid the show-ers to fall, Nor send us any rain at all, The ground would all grow hard and dry, And ev-e-ry liv-ing plant would die.

[Illustration: A-round our coasts the fish-ers meet With Had-docks, which, when dri-ed, we eat.]

The haw-thorn blos-som, snow-y white, Hangs thick upon the hedge to-day; With many flow-ers the fields are bright Upon this mer-ry First of May.

All a-round us swells the cho-rus From this good-ly world of ours, And earth's al-tar stands be-fore us Sweet with in-cense from her flow-ers.

I. Be-hold the flow-ers of June!

Who would have thought there could a-bound Such beau-ty and de-light Be-neath the cold and win-try ground That hid those flow-ers from sight?

Come, Meg and El-len, don't com-plain, For, see, the geese en-joy the rain, And dog-gie does not fret; And yet, The drops come rol-ling down his ears, And nose, and whisk-ers, just like tears; Poor Mop, he's drip-ping wet!

"Don't you see Webster ers in the words center and theater?

"Because I didn't like working for two mast-ers," he replied.

It should be remembered that my men were what were called "B one-ers," and were equipped for the duty of that grade; but, after our arrival at Hong-Kong, Headquarters had called in most of our war material to replenish the dwindling supplies of this most distant outpost of the British Empire.

My men were only "B one-ers," and the pace was beginning to tell; still they were leading, owing to the fact that our advance was along the railway and the usual tracks at the side, while the Japanese had to contend with the marshes and woods farther away.

"Don't you see Webster ers in the words center and theater?

"Because I didn't like working for two mast-ers," he replied.

ers accented by those marks, and the corresponding text representations are as follows (where x represents the character being accented).

=all th~e p=oor w=and~er~ers h=ome.'

d=oor, And ~a- | g=ain Th~e p=ave- | m~ent st=ones | r~es=ound As h~e | t=ott~ers |

l=ov~ers' f~are- |

Then in came Mortimer an' sang a song with 'eras well 'e mightabout 'is true love 'avin' 'is 'eart an' 'is 'avin' 'ers, an' everyone clappin' an' stampin' an' ancorein' in the best of tempers.