"Dasn't" try to learn to swim; Says a cow'll hook; if she Looks at him he'll climb a tree; "Scart" to death at bee or bat,

Satan put it into my head to sayS. It scart Laban.

I didn't think o' bein' mean that way, but when I heard Rhymin' Joe tell you 'at I wasn't Robert Burnham's son, I was so s'prised, an' scart-like 'at I couldn't speak.

"No more do I," replied Bachelor Billy; "but we'll no' git scart afoor we're hurt.

"It was a shame to send me under there when I wasn't scart a particle.

" "I was scart, and I don't deny it," said Ned; "but I'll go down and see about the mules, Jerry.

Why, I was so scart I couldn't hev moved ef I'd tried; but I did look up jist once, to see the bar set clus by, watchin' me, and lookin' as mad as a wet hen.

"I never was so scart afore nor since.

This kind er scart the feller, and he made a leap, and left the biggest part of his breeches in the critter's mouth.

At that the wild clans of the air Came sweeping in a mist of wings Ospreys and fierce solanders there, Sea-swallows wheeling mazy rings, The foam-white mew, the green-black scart, The famishing hawk, the wailing tern, All birds from the sand-building mart To lonely bittern and heron....

I'm scart to death!

"Yes," said Jemmy slyly; "I saw you were scart to death, an' I was afraid if I didn't demonstrate for the old lady, I wouldn't get the money.

We flew through spaceLaddy pushing a hole in the air like a scart kiyote making for home and mother.

"'Don't you be scart, miss,' says Darragh.

First he pinched himself to see if it was Hank's pie, or a cold fact, found it was a fact, then he lit another match and leaned over and looked at the black water underneath, but this made the box tip so it scart him and he settled down in the bottom again.

Why should I be scart of the nicest woman God ever built? Now by all the Mormon Gods!

"'I beg your pardon?' says she, lookin' at me with them scart-deer eyes of hers.

" "She stopped and looked at me, then she says in a scart whisper, 'Are you really the Reverend Silas Hardcrop?'

here she come, her eyes snatched wide open by the two little pigtails that stuck out behind, walkin' knock-kneed and circular, as some little girls does, and stiff er'n a poker in her j'ints from scart-to-death and gladness.

We stood stock still for a matter of five seconds, I reckon; Hadds and me scart to move, and the Majoress with her brow wrinkled in thought.

"We didn't have time to take it all in, howsomever, for after the first blast a big, black thing sailed over our heads with the fearfullest screech that ever scart a man to death.

he says to the Injunthen to me: 'What does he want?' "I made up my mind Percy wasn't goin' to be scart if I could help it.

They undertook to put up a sail as Henry and you do, and it didn't work, and they came near upsetting; and' Sol and old man Young were scart, and old Young thought he would get drownded.

And Seth he was about as scart as ef he'd seen the dead, havin' heerd up to Avon, fifteen year ago nearly, that the Lowisy Miles had been run down off the Sandwich Islands by a British man-of-war, and all hands lost, exceptin' one o' the boys.

"Weel," she replied, "it's come to a fine pass gin a wife canna kame her ain head;" "Ay, but, Janet," rejoined the minister, "a three-legged stool is a thief-like bane-kame to scart yer ain head wi'!