"These two weeks past have I been trying to beat some sense into the fools, and 'pon my word, 't is enough to drive a man crazy to see them.

A pretty match for a Stewart 'pon my word!"

" "Why, 'pon my word," cried that young lady, "'t is cousin Tom!"

Nothing intentional, 'pon my word.

But, dear me, if I believed Deacon Steal'em's talk, I should think it was just about the pleasantest thing in the world to be sold; and that the niggers down South had nothing 'pon earth to do but to lick treacle and swing on a gate.

"'Pon honour, cried sir Charles, you are very facetious.

"'Pon my soul, I never saw you look so bewitchingly.

" "'Pon my honour, Wynd, we ought to be saying our prayers rather than joking in this way.

Are you come, sir, to use the rich successful man's right, and lecture me in my misery?" "'Pon my word, sir, you must have forgotten old Mark Armsworth, indeed, if you fancy him capable of any such dirt.

"'Pon my sowl, I think I'm in Spain agin.

The second one thought the first hadsort o'charted her harbor for him; but when he came to sail in, 'pon my soul, if every shoal on the chart wasn't deep water, and every deep water a fortified shoreha, ha, ha!" Flora's smile was lambent.

"'Pon my soul," said the other, "I have been in so manylooking for Captain

"Why, Miss Sarah, I'd nigh 'pon given you up.

So with it I went to th' kitchen, and while I waited outside I sees his coat an' wesket 'pon a peg

Neither spot has he, nor wart, nor blemish 'pon his body; and when she pays 'en his wages, Saturday evenin's, he says 'Thank 'ee, ma'am,' wi' a voice that's the very daps o' his father's.

"I put the door-key, as you saw, under the empty geranium-pot 'pon the window-ledge; an' whoever the new tenant's wife may be, she can eat off the floor if she's minded.

"Maria, you'll take a chill that'll carry you off, sitting 'pon that cold stone.

" "An' a fresh spot o' bacon-fat 'pon your weskit, that I've kept the moths from since goodness knows when!" Old Jan looked down over his waistcoat.

" "Reckon I must make shift 'pon your lap, Susannah.

If you'll b'lieve me, Miss Ruby's been to Plymouth 'pon her zavings an' come back wi' vifteen pound' worth of valse teeth in her jaws, which, as I zaid, 'You must excoose my plain speakin', but they've a-broadened your mouth, Miss Ruby, an' I laiked 'ee better as you was bevore.'

I can't call to maind, tho', that I've a-zet eyes 'pon the young man since he was a little tacker.

An' presuntsnever a month went by, but zome little gift ud come by the postman; an' little 'twas he'd got to live 'pon, at the best, the dear lad" The farmer was passing back the photograph.

what de dev'!I take dat ris-pon-sibble-tyyou can have her for two hun'red fifty dollah!' Better not be too proud, eh, 'Sieur Frowenfel'?" "No, sir," said Joseph, proceeding to place it in the window, his new friend following him about spanielwise; "but you had better let me say plainly that it is for sale.

'Pon my word I believe you're right.

'Pon my word of honour, says I to Sally when her telled I, we shall have little Dick out of the infant-school next!"