If you ever came trudging home at evening, with game on your back, tired to beat the band, and when near camp sniffed fired onions cooking, you'd say they're the best thing ever toted into the wilderness.

Well, de next mornin' Massa Nelson told him to put on his coat and follow him, and he toted him down to old M'Affee's pen, and sold him to go down some river way down South; and I have cum dis mornin'," she said, looking up inquiringly into Mrs. Jennings's face, "to see if you, Missus, or Massa Jennings, wouldn't do something for him.

He could never have walked in that storm They jest scooped down and toted him To whar it was safe and warm.

But a booful angel, all in white, tuk yer by de han' an' toted yer back to Tulee an' Chloe.

I toted him about a bit out doors whenever I could get a chance.

A signal sounded and the orderlies lifted up the few wasted specters who still remained and toted them out.

I 's toted his picture roun' wid me twenty-five years.

Then they were toted like meal-bags up the stairs of the chapel, and on up and up into the loft, and into the bell-tower.

"Pluck the superabundant huckleberry," said they, "while we, suspending your firkin and your traps upon the setting-pole, tote them, as the spies of Joshua toted the grape-clusters of the Promised Land.

I toted water for a whole year when I was a boy about eight years old.

I cooked and toted things.

Folks had came toted off all the folks made in the crops till they don't call nuthin stealin'.

They tore down my house and toted it off for fire wood.

The loop holes in the wall of the old school house for the rifles had been boarded up, and the larger boys no longer "toted" their guns, and stacked them in the corner.

"Grandma toted her big hoop dresses about and carried her trains up off the floor.

I got off and Thornton Walls, old colored man, toted me cross every mud hole we come to.

Will you wait to be toted down river, where they kill niggers with hard work and starving?

I toted water to dem in blue de same as dem in gray.

so dey jus' toted de coffin to whar dey buried 'im. Dey put flowers in cups an' vases on de grave, so's dey wouldn' wilt.

He took Castle for a customer, of course, and after saying "Howdy" to Thorn, opened right up: "I reckon Thorn hev toted you up to see thet blessid infunt as I'm mother, father and wet-nuss to.

The horses had been taken from the carriage, the luggage it contained being placed upon the shoulders of some of the young Indians, to be toted up the steep.

Among the boxes brought to land, and "toted" up the steep bank, was one containing some loaves of sugar and packages of tea, which I had bought for our winter's supply from the sutler at the post.

"So we toted ten cases of giant to the bottom of the mill, fixed the cap and fuse careful, touched her off, and walked away from there.

He finely discriminated between the man in search of employment, the harmless tramp who had fallen a victim to the wanderlust, the sneaking rogue who "toted" a six-shooter for the special purpose of killing human beings, preferring railroad employees and hoboes, and the rascal who had trained other people's sons to beg a living for him, exactly as an Italian organ grinder would train a performing monkey or bear.

"They tuk 'n' they toted me over t' Canady, an' I tuk 'n' got away, 'n' they efter me. Killed one on 'em thet was chasin' uv me over 'n the Beaver medders on the bog trail.