He's got folks out to Indianny, an' we sot out fur to go a-cousinin', five year back, an' we got out there inter the dre'fullest woodsy region ever ye see, where 'twa'n't trees, it was 'sketers; husband he couldn't see none out of his eyes for a hull day, and I thought I should caterpillar every time I heerd one of 'em toot; they sartainly was the beater-ee!"

"Well, I declare, you han't heerd about them turkeys, hev ye?

But I've heerd talk.

"Did they want a job?" "Not as I heerd.

What I heerd of their threatenin' methods is like the way this Glidden talks.

I heerd tell about ye at the trial, but supposed ye ter be an older man.

I heerd the feller splash when he struck, but he never let out no yell.

Sancheznotnot 'Black Sanchez?'" "That's him; so yer've heerd o' 'Black Sanchez?'

"Likely thar ain't no sailor but whut has heerd o' him," I said slowly.

Wen I seed dem big yaller eyes a-starin' at me, an' heerd dat yowlin' noise, my knees dey jest wobbled together.

Ise heerd bout dem goole-bugs fore dis.

We rattled along an hour or so, Till we heerd a yell on the still night air.

Caught in the shower of lead and flint We felt the old stage stagger and plunge; Then we heerd the voice and the whip of Ben, As he gethered his critters up again, And tore away with a lunge.

One night,'t wuz jest a year from the night I'd walked 'ith him in thet lane,I wuz stan'in' by the door, an' all ter once I heerd a noise an' crash ez ef all the thunderbolts in the Almighty's hand hed fallen together, an' I run deown the lane an' met the men bringin' up sunthin' on an old door.

"I don't often remember all this," says she, after a little, "but las' spring it all flushed over me; an' w'en I heerd heow Emerline'd be'n sick,I hear a gre't many things ye do' no' nothin' abeout, children,I thought I'd tell her, fust time I see her.

I heerd sum say thay wur off to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, North Wales; an' I sed to meself, "I be on the rong road.

"When I see him a-laying so stritched out just now, I wished he could have heerd me tell him so.

Mr. Chadbands he wos a-praying wunst at Mr. Snagsby's, and I heerd him, but he sounded as if he wos a-speaking to hisself and not to me.

Theer's stags, so Ah've heerd tell, in this forest.'

All at once I heerd a crackling o' twigs like th' night afore, an' then someone stole acrost th' road carrying a rope.

I've heerd that ag'in and ag'in in Ameriky.

I heerd Cap'n Simmons say so this mornin'.

"Know what I heerd?"

Amos was a proud feller, if he was poor; and, when he heerd this, he left the house right off, walked to New York, and shipped as a sailor to San Francisco.

"But some folks forget," continued Mr. Swan, "that transplanted trees won't grow the first year, and others want too much for their money, and too good of its kind; but fair and softly, thinks I; you can't buy five shillings with threepence-halfpenny in any shop that I ever heerd of; and when you've earned half-a-crown you can't be paid it in gold.