"You needn't werry about me," she called down to the old fellow where he sat speechlessly glaring.

"I hate to werry ye, Johnnie," said the other's deprecating voice; "but looks like I've jest got obliged to have a little help this evenin'.

Kate had left the wagon, and was shaking with laughter over this extraordinary goodness on the turkeys' part, and before long our basket was full of struggling, kicking, squeaking things, "werry promiscuous," in Mr. Weller's phrase.

Mile Endthe werry 'ome of lorst dorgsand that there dorg, find him when you wool, why, he ain't worth more'n fourteen bob, sir.'

You are 'swelling wisibly afore my werry eyes!'

"That's not the way as them speaks who's had the pith and marrow out of a chap's werry bones," growled Jim.

"'Ere's a werry 'andsome weapon, sir," said he, handing over Rudolf's sword.

" "Werry sorry, Massa 'Plinter, werry sorry.

" "Werry sorry, Massa 'Plinter, werry sorry.

But I'm gittin' mighty werry, An' de days a-gittin' drerry, An' I'm hongry, O, so berry, Fur my hom' down Souf.

"Honey, you ought to be asleep dis werry minit; look lak folks been a-worr'in' you.

I's gwine to pick out de werry bes' calas I's got for you.

With poor dying Joe, I whisper to myself: "'Our Father:' yes, that's werry good.

I spent a werry plessant arternoon there, and drove home in style on the Box Seat of a reel Company's Bus.

There is one place in the werry middle of the Wood where no less than sewen parths meets, and there the Copperashun Committee has bilt up a bewtifool Founting, and a long hinskripshun in praise of Water, tho I shood dout if they speaks from werry much pussonal xperience.

There was crowds of peeple there, all enjoying of themselves in a nice quiet way, and altogether it was a werry werry nice site.

The werry next day I started in the warm sunshine for pretty West Ham Park, and had a leetle adwenture as ushal, for jest as I got there who shoud I meet

There was some werry little chaps a playing Cricket as before despite of the Law, and they had a reel bat too, and one on 'em, seeing me a looking on apruvingly, gave the ball such a tremenjus blow that he got a tooer, so I called out braywo!

The werry adwanced state of the musical taste of the nayberhood may be judged by the fact, that at a Concert close by, a "Ode to a Butterfly" was to be played on a base Trombone!

"I'm werry glad to see old bones like a hoe; an' I wonner dere ar' time to laugh, wid 'e garden full of weed!

So when the time came for it to be sold, they jest quietly says to one of their principel Chairmen (who is sich a King of Good Fellers that they all calls him by that name, and he arnsers to it jest as if it was the werry name as was guv him by his Godfathers and his Godmothers, as I myself heard with my own ears), "Go and buy it!"

Our Gents was all considrably surprized at the lots of Tents as was all a standing on Ship Lake Island; one on 'em, who was got up quite in a naughtical style, said as he was estonished to see so many on 'em pitched, but I think as he must ha' bin mistaken, for I didn t see not none on 'em pitched, tho' I dessay it might ha' been werry usefool in keeping out the rain on a remarkabel wet night.

Why, he guv out the word of command, whether it was to "Port the Helem," or to "Titen the mane braces," as if he had bin a Hadmiral at the werry least, and his galliant crew obeyed him without not no grumbling or ewen thretening to strike!

I was werry busy at the time.

But she was, as Dickens's poor Jo says in Bleak House, "werry good to me!" CHAPTER VI.