"I was a-tellin' husband yesterday 't I never see sech a master hand for stories as you be.

" "What do you suppose thesethese night visitors wanted?" "No tellin'.

I'm just as proud of Pearl as I can hold, and I'll be tellin' the kids at school about my sister who is Principal of the Purple Springs School.

Ten year ago it was, and thar was quite some timber leveled, I'm tellin' ye."

Ye see they comes an' goes, so ther ain't no tellin' jest how big the pack kin be.

He was the potentate of the town and reputed to be worth, at a conservative estimate, in the neighborhood of ten thousand dollars"er more, fer that matter; fer Bob ain't tellin' his business to nobody."

Why, Miss Birdie was a-tellin' me" I ventured to interrupt him.

All I done said was that I been tellin' everybody Tom would sure enough bring back Bully West with him.

" "That isn't so," says Ma to him, "but I am certain from the way The ouija moves that you're the one who's tellin' it just what to say.

Autumn Evenings Apples on the table an' the grate-fire blazin' high, Oh, I'm sure the whole world hasn't any happier man than I; The Mother sittin' mendin' little stockin's, toe an' knee, An' tellin' all that's happened through the busy day to me: Oh, I don't know how to say it, but these cosy autumn nights Seem to glow with true contentment an' a thousand real delights.

"Good luck to you, and many thanks for tellin' me about this broken rail.

The antennæ are" "Dey aint no tin in him, Massa Will, I keep a tellin on you," here interrupted Jupiter; "de bug is a goole-bug, solid, ebery bit of him, inside and all, sep him wingneber feel half so hebby a bug in my life.

I's a-tellin' the Deacon, this-mornin', I didn't see how I was to come here this afternoon; but then I did want to see Miss Scudder and talk a little about that precious sermon, Sunday.

Well, his reward must be great in heaven, if not on earth, as I was a-tellin' the Deacon; and he says to me, says he, 'Polly, we mustn't be man-worshippers.'

Somehow they seem to rile her all up; and she was a-tellin' me yesterday, when she was a-hangin' out clothes, that she never should get reconciled to Decrees and 'Lection, 'cause she can't see, if things is certain, how folks is to help 'emselves.

"Well, now, dear me!" said Mrs. Twitchel, while her knitting-needles trotted contentedly to the mournful tone of her voice,"I was tellin' the Deacon, if we only could get there!

Noo neebor wives, come, tent my tellin', When the bonnie fish ye're sellin'

Dats been a long time ago, Ize tellin you, white man.

Bud was tellin' me to read up on forestry.

" "Well, I don't mind tellin' you, as you are my confidential little friend."

An' all the while, she was teachin' her boy and tellin' 'en, whatever happened, to remember he was a gentleman, an' lovin' 'en with all the strength of a desolate woman.

And when any father in Tregarrick had a bone to pick with his sons, he'd advise 'em to take example by young Pinsent'so clever and good, too, there was no tellin' what he mightn't come to in time.

I couldn't dare to lose that last illusion; an' so I put on me hat an' walked out, tellin' him nothing at all.

It's God's truth I'm tellin' 'ee.

You've been tellin' folks who you be!" "Not a word.