Well, he take his bez baril sugahI nevah see a so careful man like me papa always to make a so beautiful sugah et sirop.

Nevah could tell how I got up dar; reckons as how you say am jest de truf, an' I flew!" exclaimed the cook, able to laugh now at his adventure.

" "Marse Wes, you haddat pitchfo'k dere yo'se'f dis mawnin'; I ain't nevah touch dat pitchfo'k."

'"I nevah sleep,'" quoted Mr. Ross-Ellison, "and I had no time, if any inclination.

Ah nevah did do no hahm tho.

Ah hant nevah been in jail.

Haint nevah been rested er nothin.

Who is it all de day nevah once tries Fu' to be cross, er once loses dat smile?

Go on, hoot yo' Mou'nful tune, You ain' nevah loved in June, An' come hidin' f'om de moon Down in lovah's lane.

Ah nevah seed yo' face befo' An' lakly won't again no mo'; But yo' sweet smile will follow me Cla'r into eternity!

Den when home remedies seem to shirk, Dem pantry bottles was put to work: Blue-mass, laud'num, liver pills, "Sixty-six, fo' fever an' chills," Ready Relief, an' A.B.C., An' half a bottle of X.Y.Z. An' sev'al mo' Ah don't recall, Dey nevah done no good at all.

huh knees wid scowl an' frown, She jes' "clumb up Jacob's ladder," an' he nevah drug huh down.

" Refrain "No, Brother Simmons, we kin safely say, 'Tain't gwine tuh be no rain to-day, Kase da sut ain't fallin' an' da dogs ain't sleep, An' you ain't seen no spiders fum dare cobwebs creep; Las' night da sun went bright to bed, An' da moon ain't nevah once been seen to hang her head; If you'se watched all dis, den you kin safely say, Dat dare ain't a-gwine to be no rain to-day.

"Dont you nevah call me 'Mammy' no mo'," gran'mammy tol' 'er.

I nevah got no beatin's.

"Shippin' 'fore de mahst ain't no job to make a preacher f'm a youngster; hit's plenty tough; but I ain't nevah been sorry I went to sea; effen a boy gwine take to likker an' wimmen, he kin git plenty o'both at home, same as in for'n ports.

"We go out to see de sights, but nevah hear one mo' word o' English; so ahftah a time we go back to de ship an' stay ontell we put to sea again.

Ah nevah befo' see such pretty high-yaller gals in all my life.

Bein' likkered plenty, I nevah thought 'bout gittin' beat up mahse'f.

Nevah got in one lick.

"Nevah done a hahd day's wuk in 'is life.

"My mammy was mighty nigh as big, an' nevah seen a sick day in her life.

F'm dat day on, we nevah had no mo' trouble 'bout de likker question.

"I was awful 'fraid, for that was somethin' I nevah see before.

"I could nevah wear that.