Miz Bence, she cain't come down this morningyou'll have to git somebody to tend her looms till noon; Pap, he's sick, and she has obliged to wait on himso I brung the new gal.

If I was your age I'd have her Miz Himes before sundown.

Tie the knot, preacher; yer dollar is ready for ye, and we must be gittin' along homeit's 'most milkin' time,' The preacher he tied the knot, and Shalliday and the new Miz.

They put Miz Carraway back; I believe she'll do good too.

Why, Miz Folsom went out on her!" Folsom halted; after a momentary pause he repeated, vaguely, "Went out?" "Exactly.

Well Miz Parker lives in the one this way.

yeah young lady, Miz Betty Medill, and th' other's Mistah Perry Pa'khurst.

Taking into consideration Miz' Merz (Mis' Merz by-the-day, you understand) and Gussie, the girl, and Fred, there was very little necessity for Mrs. Brewster's official house-cleaning uniform.

Every year, twice a year, as this box, that trunk or chest was opened and its contents revealed, Mis' Merz would say "You keepin' this, Miz' Brewster?" "That?

Then the plaid kilted dress with the black velvet monkey jacket that Pinky had worn when she spoke her first piece at the age of sevenwell, these were things that even the rapacious eye of Miz' Merz (by-the-day) passed by unbrightened by covetousness.

Mrs. Brewster, head and shoulders in a trunk, was trying not to listen and not to seem not to listen to Miz' Merz' recital of her husband's relations' latest flagrancy.

" Miz' Merz damply calicoed, rose from a corner and came forward, wiping a moist and parboiled hand on her skirt.

" "It's got to be done," replied Miz' Merz severely.

" "Mebbe so," retorted Miz' Merz with equal crispness.

You'll hate the dinnerbuilt around Miz' Merz; you knowboiled.

And fu'thermore, as Miz' Merz would say, I didn't know there was any situation.

Fifteen minutes later Pinky, splashing in a cool tub, heard the voice of Miz' Merz, high-pitched with excitement and a certain awful joy: "Miz' Brewster!

Fifteen minutes later Pinky, splashing in a cool tub, heard the voice of Miz' Merz, high-pitched with excitement and a certain awful joy: "Miz' Brewster!

Oh, Miz' Brewster!

He turned: "It's Miz' Merz.

" Mrs. Brewster took the receiver from him: "The twenty-fifth, as usual, Miz' Merz.