" When the winter days waz nigh, An' the clouds froze in the sky, Never sot him down to sigh, But, still singin' on his way, He'd stop long enough to say "Well, I'm hopin'.

" "How old is the trail, Jerry?" inquired I. "That trail waz made afore eight o'clock this mornin'," was the answer.

"Yer see we hed a purty hevy dew last night, but the sun waz up so high that the grass waz all dry at eight o'clock.

"Yer see we hed a purty hevy dew last night, but the sun waz up so high that the grass waz all dry at eight o'clock.

Wall, now, if you'll look you'll see, that where the grass was pressed down by the horses' feet into the earth, a little of the sand stuck to it, (coz it waz damp), that has dried on since.

But the honour of producing the first English grammar is claimed by William Bullokar, who published, in the year 1586, 'A Bref Grammar for English,' being, to use his own words, 'the first Grammar for English that ever waz, except my Grammar at large.'

This liberty waz taken by the writers before the age of queen Elizabeth, and to this we are indeted for the preference of modern spelling over that of Gower and Chaucer.

"The proposition waz suspended til the next session of the legislature."Ib., p. 362.

"The province however waz harrassed with disputes."Ib., p. 352.

Caves of the Waz Don.

Caves of the Waz Don.

It don't make a bit o' difference who in thunder Cass is or waz, for I reckon she's kicked him over by this time" "Sarved him right, too, for losing the girl's ring and then lying low and keeping dark about it," interrupted a sympathizer.

"They waz counterfeits got up by them Dutch supercargo sharps for dealin' with the Injins and cannibals and South Sea heathens ez bows down to wood and stone.