" Johnny got suddenly to her feet.

This union suggested the ballad of an old rhymer, beginning O whare are ye gaen, bonny Miss Gordon, O whare are ye gaen, sae bonny and braw? Ye've married, ye've married wi' Johnny Byron, To squander the lands o' Gight awa'.

There was Frank Lombard, the great baritone; Max Irwin, bones, and one of the funniest men who ever sat on the stage; Johnny Ritter, female impersonator and clog dancer, and a large number of others.

It was learned afterward that this mysterious person was Coal Oil Johnny out on a lark.

Johnny was really tired of it, and then, too, Johnny had found out that what mother had said about dogs was very much exaggerated.

They had run after Johnny one day when he was out playing on the road, and he had led them across a ploughed field.

Johnny had just gone into one of the cattle sheds to see what was there, when a little boy, with flopped-out ears and a Cow Brand Soda cap on, stealthily closed the gate.

Well, of course, old Mrs. Rabbit didn't believe a word of it when Johnny went home and told her who called off the dogs and opened the gate for him.

She said,well, she talked very plainly to Johnny, but he stuck to it, that he owed his life to one of the Bad Men who wear clothes the color of grass, and whose gun spits fire and death.

Does old Honeycutt know any more than the rest of us?" "We are all young men compared with Loony Honeycutt, all Johnny-come-lately youngsters.

Johnny, you haven't blocks enough for a good factory, and Jennie hasn't enough for hers.

I would have her look after me when I go out as far as she can see me, as my Rosebud after her Johnny; and meet me at my return with rapture.

True, a Wordsworth or a Coleridge did hesitate for hours over the problem of adjusting a horse collar, but Johnny Ragamuffin, from the slums, or Jerry Hickathrift, of some shire with the most uncouth of dialects, can adjust a slipping saddle, or, in a hand's turn, can remove a stone which is torturing a hoof.

she said; "You shall get me a Johnny-cake: quickly go make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it.

[Illustration] But grandmother's Johnny-cakestill she must make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it.

She ran to the shop; but the shopkeeper said, "I have noneyou must go to the miller, fair maid; For he has a mill, and he'll put the corn in it, And grind you some nice yellow meal in a minute; But run, or the Johnny-cake, how will you make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it?"

Run, run, or the Johnny-cake, how will you make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it?"

" [Illustration] "Then grandmother's Johnny-cakehow shall I make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it?"

for the Johnny-cakehow can you make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it?"

[Illustration] The ploughman he ploughed, and the grain it was sown, And the sun shed his rays till the corn was all grown; It was ground at the mill, and again in her bed These words to poor Sarah the grandmother said: "You shall get me a Johnny-cakequickly go make it, In one minute mix, and in two minutes bake it.

Then Johnny sent a regiment, big words and looks to bandy, Whose martial band, when near the land, played "Yankee doodle dandy.

" Old Johnny's face, to his disgrace, was flushed with beer and brandy, E'en while he swore to sing no more this Yankee doodle dandy.

I've told you now the origin of this most lively ditty, Which Johnny Bull dislikes as "dull and stupid"what a pity!

What a world of fine territory between Land's End and Johnny Grots have you missed traversing.

We've got to watch every corner, that's all, and be Johnny-on-the-spot when the time comes.