"Oh, Pompey, I wish I could die!" "'Specs little Miss hez no call ter wish dat," said Pompey gently.

"I hez his word, Missy.

"'Cause he hez sent his Sperit inter my heart, an' poor black Pompey can look up inter de shinin of his face an' say 'my Father,' 'cause I'se hidden away in his Son.

"I don't 'low my horses ever hez sech things, Mass Louis," said Pompey grandly.

It's de heart songs dat de King tinks de most of, but when de heart gits too full, den de lips hez ter do deir share.

But we never hez enuff.

She sez she hez ter do it ter keep the pot bilin''pears ter me Penel's pots take a sight uv bilin'.

She sez she hez ter go where folks wants things done, but that's nonsense, folks oughter want things done near at hand,they know how lonesome I be.

Well, well, some folks hez a lion's share uv soarin' an' here I've ben all my life jest a' pinin' my heart out ter git down ter Bosting, an' I ain't never got there!

Man ez born ter trouble ez the sparks fly upward, an' a woman allers hez the lion's share.

"I tell you, there ain't nothing on earth kin face a big range bull that hez good use of hisself.

At home he was always a-drawin' and shirkin' his work 'round the place, And kept me continyerly jawin' or dressin' him down with a trace; Till I says ter Mother, "Between us, this thing might's well be understood; Our Hez is jest simply a gen'us, and a gen'us is never no good; He won't stop fer jawin's and dressin's; he'll daub and he'll draw all the while; So he might as well have a few lessons, and learn how ter do it in style.

when I see 'em I jest had ter turn 'round and blush; And Hez!

Hez says that ter paint 'em like natur' is common and tawdry and vile; He says it's a plaguey sight greater to do 'em "impressionist style.

And she had a notion 'twas painted when Hez had been off on a spree.

"These yere men hez fought in the late war, yer see, plenty of 'um, an' you bet they don't carry no bokays on ther bayonits.

I tell ye, England's law, on sea an' land, Hez ollers ben, "I've gut the heaviest hand.

Why, she hez taken hunderds from our ships, An' would agin, an' swear she hed a right to, Ef we warn't strong enough to be perlite to.

But The'ry is jes' like a train on the rail, Thet, weather or no, puts her thru without fail, While Fac's the ole stage thet gits sloughed in the ruts, An' hez to allow for your darned efs an' buts, An'

We might ha' ben now jest ez prosp'rous ez France, Where politikle enterprise hez a fair chance, An' the people is heppy an' proud et this hour, Long ez they hev the votes, to let Nap hev the power; But our folks they went an' believed wut we'd told 'em, An', the flag once insulted, no mortle could hold 'em.

But ther' 's still some conservative signs to be found Thet shows the gret heart o' the People is sound: (Excuse me for usin' a stump-phrase agin, But, once in the way on 't, they will stick like sin:) There's Phillips, for instance, hez jes' ketched a Tartar In the Law-'n'-Order Party of ole Cincinnater; An' the Compromise System ain't gone out o' reach, Long 'z you keep the right limits on freedom o' speech; 'T

Thar's a pit out yar in the woods ez hez been burning six months; it hain't, in course, got the advantages o' the old one, for it's nat'ral heat.

"the air of having a Christian hope and a sequence flush in his hand," and said: "Well, as I reckon I'm not up yer for stealin' a ring that another man lets on to have found, and as fur as I kin see, hez nothin' to do with the case, I do!"

"You see," said Drummond, as if answering his unspoken thought, "that'ar galfor it is a gal in coursehez read all about it in the papers, and hez sort o' took a shine to ye.

It was a close shot, and the bear hez dropped in his tracks.