Show nex' time.

Nex' time, I spect dat sumfin' am a-gwine to happen.

"All nex' day, all day after, day after that, day" Mrs. Silk eyed him softly.

I paid Majah Ransom de intrus' on de mortgage dis mawnin' an' a hund'ed dollahs besides, an' I spec's ter hab de balance ready by de fust of nex' Jiniwary; an' den we won't owe nobody a cent.

"Please, ma'am, will you tell me whether a man name' Ben Davis useter live in dis neighborhood?" "Useter live in de nex' house; wuz sent ter de penitenchy fer killin' a man.

You needn't git oneasy Thanksgivin', or picnic-time, or Easter, or no other time 'twixt this an' nex' Christmasless'n, of co'se, you stray off an' git stole.

You stay right along here a day or sotell to-morrer or nex' day, anyhowan' I'll sen' you a whole bale o' cottonan' you can sen' back any change you see fitor noneor none, I say.

" An', sir, the very nex' communion we both up an' perfessed.

But nex' day was his turn to preach down at Sandy Crik, an' he couldn't come that night, but he promised to come right after services nex'

But nex' day was his turn to preach down at Sandy Crik, an' he couldn't come that night, but he promised to come right after services nex'

Well, sir, we was mightily comforted by the doctor's visit, but nex' mornin' things looked purty gloomy ag'in.

Well, after I had reasoned with him severe that-a-way a while, he says, says he, thess ez sweet an' mild, says he, "Daddy, nex' time y'all gits christened, I'll come down an' be elms-tened rightlike a good boy.

"Yes, sir," says he; "nex' time I 'll be christened like a good boy.

Yas, sir; 't is confusin' to him in some ways, goin' to all three schools at once-t. F' instance, Miss Alviry Sawyer, which she's a single-handed maiden lady 'bout wife's age, why, of co'se, she teaches accordin' to the old rules; an' in learnin' the child'en subtraction, f' instance, she'll tell 'em, ef they run short to borry one f'om the nex' lef' han' top figur', an' pay it back to the feller underneath him.

But nex' day he up an' went back to Mr. Clark's schoolwalked in thess ez pleasant an' kind, an' taken his seat an' said his lessonsnever th'owed it up to teacher at all.

The nex' mornin', ez I wuz milkin', the ceow tuk fright an' begun ter cut up, an' she cut up so thet I run an' she arter me,

Ef Mis' Ochiltree ain' gwine ter need me fer de nex' fifteen minutes, I kin ride back home in de ca'ige an' dress myse'f suitable fer de occasion, suh.

Nex' room my boy lies in the shadder an' dark.

We labors in de vineya'd, wukin' hard and wukin' true; Now, shorely you won't notus, ef we eats a grape or two, An' takes a leetle holiday,a leetle restin' spell, Bekase, nex' week we'll start in fresh, an' labor twicet as well.

I stole it all, en I hid de ham under Dave's cabin fer ter th'ow de blame on himen may de good Lawd fergib me fer it.' "Mars Dugal' had Wiley tuk back ter de plantation, en sont fer a doctor fer ter pick de shot out'n 'im. En de ve'y nex' mawnin' Mars Dugal' sont fer Dave ter come up ter de big house; he felt kinder sorry fer de way Dave had be'n treated.

So he sont word down ter de quarters fer Dave en all de yuther han's ter 'semble up in de yard befo' de big house at sun-up nex' mawnin'.

I tuk Mother's money, an' what the cook give me, an' got Baldy out, an' bought him a license so's he'd be safe nex' time.

Now," sadly, "there ain't goin' t' be any nex' time.

"Dis war will be ober the nineteen of nex' month!" (Evidently the Kaiser has had another revelation.)

The nex day I went to Higate Wood, another of the grate works of the good old Copperashun.