"But I'll give you my way of readin' the sign on that trail," said Lester.

"Settin' in thar, readin' a book," replied Beulah Catlett curtly.

You've been readin' too many novels.

There don't seem to be much love in real life, so a poor lone crittur like me has to calm her hankerin's by a-readin' novels.

" "You ain't bin readin' the advertisements o' quack doctors, hev ye?" "Not since I was twenty.

Ye've bin readin' dime novels, that's what ails ye.

Sometimes them papers make a heap interesting readin'."

He's a master-hand at readin'; and when he heard that your remarks on Dr. Mayhew had come out, Seth tackled up o' purpose and come up to Newport to get them, and spent all his time, last winter, studyin' on it and makin' his remarks; and I tell you, Sir, he's a tight fellow to argue with.

Then ag'in I'd hear him laughin' out all alone, and I'd go up and find him readin' some verses that he'd been makin'.

The captain was a-readin' some book, waitin' for the down train, when a lass as gave its sister the slip came toddling across the line.

You been readin' too many Manila newspapers.

Made you feel like you was readin' a bit out of a dictionary jest to listen to him for a minute.

She'd make swell readin'.

f bread and stated, "He's sittin' up readin' a lot of old copybooks, kind of.

" "That's what Frisco's readin' up in.

Kind of good readin.'

I know nothin' at all about the matter except readin' the account of the dreadful affair in the mornin' paper.

He neber larned no real readin' an' writin' but he sho' knowed his Bible an' would hol' his han' out an' mek lak he was readin' an' preach de purtiest preachin' you ever heered.

He neber larned no real readin' an' writin' but he sho' knowed his Bible an' would hol' his han' out an' mek lak he was readin' an' preach de purtiest preachin' you ever heered.

"'I had to send word to the Elders that Books of Mormon weren't looked upon as popular readin' in the outlyin' districts, so should I come home, or try New York City?

"Elder Stimmins wrote back pussonally, exhortin' me to be of good heart, sayin' further that the days of miracles weren't past; at any moment the unrepentant might get it in the conscienceand signed himself my friend and brother in the church, with a P. S. readin': Dear Zeke: My wife Susan Ann will continner to have high-stukes till I produce a grand pianny.

" And lookin' round eagerly and anxiously I see a good-lookin' man with eye glasses settin' on a bench readin' a paper.

"Maybe you been readin' minds, stranger?" Buck Daniels regarded the bartender with a mild and steadfast interest.

"Pa says," answers Johnny, "that it's readin' in the papers that the price o' things has come down, an expectin' to find it true when the bills comes in.

Are yo' corresponding wif some other female?" RASTUS"Nope; but since ah been a-readin' in de papers 'bout dese 'conscience funds' ah kind of thought ah might possibly git a lettah from dat ministah what married us.