Reckon I better be steppin' over to Vander's and see can I borry their cow.

" "No more two-steppin' for me," agreed Miss Meacham, seating herself decidedly.

Steppin up close to the railin where votes is put in, Miss YOOMANS thus to me did say: "Square GREEN, wee've come to cast the soffrige of a down-trodden race: Will you receive our votes?" "Not exzactly I wont, my hi toned Greshun benders," was my reply.

If Jim was able to do for mother, I feel as if I wouldn't mind steppin' out now I'm so fur along.

"MY DAMN PRETTY LI'L' HIGH-STEPPIN' SQUAW" XXIII.

"You damn li'l' high-steppin' filly!

CHAPTER XXII "MY DAMN PRETTY LI'L' HIGH-STEPPIN' SQUAW" The man on the stool was Whaley.

My damn pretty li'l' high-steppin' squaw.

'n' him was talkin' about luck that very mornin' while she was a-steppin' down the landin' towards him's fast 's ever she could go!

And so they kept on playin' a sort of a game of tag over the place, the stranger jest side-steppin' like a prize-fighter, the prettiest you ever seen, and not developin' when Sandy started on one of his swings.

"'Ha! ha!' says the squire, steppin' backward.

Dilsey wuz a monst'us peart, good-lookin', gingybread-colored gal,one er dese yer high-steppin' gals w'at hol's dey heads up, en won' stan' no foolishness fum no man.

So,' sez he, 'we'll jest mosey along kind o' quick steppin' now, and we'll do our part like we al'us does do it.

"Why, I can't," said he, "'thout steppin' on't."

An' Mary, she begins t' talk as if she'd bit her tongue, an' step stylish, an' hold up her dress like that, jest as though she was steppin' over a hot griddle.

Guess I been steppin' on my foot the whole dog-gone day.

You're steppin' on your bridle.

" "You'd be steppin' square on Bud's soul if you was to josh him about that piano," said Lorry.

A lady can always get a man steppin' on his own foot when he tries to walk around a argument with her.

says he, steppin' back.

"'An' now,' says she, beginning to weep, 'I'd camped in that mill, an' I was only for steppin' out to git a bit of a stick to cook me soopper, an' I was on me way back, when a-r-rur-BOOMP!

"Weel, I'll hae to be steppin', sir.

But ef she comes out yere looking mighty pleased, an' larffin all ober her face, an' steppin' so frisky, den I knows de Secesh is gittin' de bes' ob de Yankees.

What with that Dan BarryI ain't steppin' on any corns, Kate, am I?

But it's a sort of a common purpose; it's havin' both pairs of feet steppin' out on the same path.