Do you think I'm a silly old goose to keep them cluttering around so long?" "Wa'al,"Abe with an equally deprecatory gesture indicated Angy's horsehair trunk in the far corner of the loft,"yew ain't no more foolisher, I guess, over yer old trash 'n me an' Angy be a-keepin' that air minin' stock of mine.

"But," as Polly Stevens had said, "we are instructed all day long in school, and a good deal out of school, too, for that matter; and what we need most is absolutely foolish recreation; the foolisher the better.

This game went on for better than a week, till the foolish beast, not able to fare well but he must cry roast meathappier than Caligula's minion, could he have kept his own counselbut, foolisher, alas!

It is observed, that "the foolisher the fowl or fish,woodcocks,dotterels,cod's-heads, &c. the finer the flesh thereof," and what are commonly the world's received fools, but such whereof the world is not worthy?

How shall I look," I demanded bitterly, "when Mayme comes to thank me?" "No foolisher than you do now, trying to raise unreasonable objections to our perfectly good plans," retorted the Bonnie Lassie.

Shall I ever be there again, I wonder?a foolish wonder, and foolisher still when let out!

I suppose, my dear friend, that, when you were younger and foolisher than you now are, you were wont, after the reading of some dismal work upon diet and health, to take long, constitutional walks.

"They say they is weaker and wiser, but I say they is weaker and foolisher.

I think to-day I am foolisher than usual.