She gave me a little wintry smile but the tears kep a' comin' an' by an' bye she got up and went out, an' ef she don't imitate the Prophet Jeremi an' water her piller with her tears this night, then I've changed my name sence mornin'.

"When I was up-stairs jest now fer my slippers, I heard him kind o' sniffin' inter his piller.

If your child, in its infantile days, is given to squallin nites, obtain a beverige, called soothin sirup, and just before you pull off your butes nites, give the little cuss about 3 tablespoons full, and he will sleep so sound that you can use him for a piller.

slight, I wood I had knowne that, tother Day, I thought I had met him in Paules, and he had bin any body else but a piller, I wood have runne him through by heaven: beg me? Foul.

Now, go fetch a piller till I lay 'im on it.

And now git me somethin' stiff to lay the piller on.

Why, that two-year-old boy settin' there regulatin' that clock warn't no mo' 'n to say a pink spot on the piller 'fo' he commenced to set fo'th his idees, and he ain't never backed down on no principle thet he set fo'th, to this day.

"Lot Ol' Sophy set at th' foot o' th' bed, if th' young missis sets by th' piller,won' y', darlin'?

Then she dropped back on the piller, stone-dead.

Let me see her!''n' how I run up-stairs,I could run then,'n' got the coral necklace 'n' put it round her little neck, 'n' then showed her to her mother,'n' how her mother looked at her, 'n' looked, 'n' then put out her poor thin fingers 'n' lifted the necklace,'n' fell right back on her piller, as white as though she was laid out to bury?

He kept taking the locket from under 'is piller and feeling it; then he felt 'e must 'ave another look at it, and arter coughing 'ard two or three times and calling out to the other two not to snoreto see if they was awakehe got out o' bed and lit the candle.

" He put his 'and under his piller, but afore he showed it to 'em he sat up in bed and made 'em a little speech.

"Well, the psalm-shouter let me outjerked the piller-slip from under me, you might sayand turned me adrift.

Put your elbow on my piller: I can do without it."

était perdue sans ressourceIls se disperserent pour piller et laissèrent

" "Except her feeling under my piller for her handkerchief," corroborated Mr. Negget, returning to the sitting-room.

The first stanza was, if I remember it rightly, something of this sort: "A angel come inter the poar trapper's door, The purty feet tromped on the rough puncheon floor, Her lovely head slep' on his prairie-grass piller The cabin is lonesome and the trapper is poar, He hears little shoes a-pattin' the floor; He can't sleep at night on that piller no more; His Hoosier harp hangs on the wild water-willer!

The first stanza was, if I remember it rightly, something of this sort: "A angel come inter the poar trapper's door, The purty feet tromped on the rough puncheon floor, Her lovely head slep' on his prairie-grass piller The cabin is lonesome and the trapper is poar, He hears little shoes a-pattin' the floor; He can't sleep at night on that piller no more; His Hoosier harp hangs on the wild water-willer!

I made a piller for her out'n some rolls of wall-paper, but the Major had to get along as best he could.

"Just move this piller so as I can see.

It was all very well, but, as Smith said, wot 'e wanted was feathers in 'is piller, instead of 'aving to snatch a bit o' sleep in 'is chair or sitting down with his 'ead agin a tree.

This is one of their proverbs, and answers to ours of "Kicked from piller to post."

Truly he spoke the truth; I could cling to his arm, drink out of the same cup, set in the same chair, lay my head on the same piller, and yet, he might be millions of milds from me in sperit, 'round with other wimmen for all I knew.

And I wuz, it wuz the music of the Future that sounds out in my ears anon or oftener, sweet inspirin' strains that even Josiah can't hear if his head lays on the same piller.

Most of you, no doubt, have read that celebrated story by Mr. RIDER HAGGARD, about a certain She-who-must-be-obeyed, and who dwelt in a place called Kôr, and you will also doubtless remember how she was in the 'abit of repairing, at certain intervals, to a cavern, and renooing her youth in a fiery piller.