The Boy crowed long and loud: "'Effer ole wile rooster widder speckly tail Commer crowin' befoh de do', En yo got some comp'ny a'ready, Yo's gwinter have some mo'.'" Then he grunted, and went on all fours.

"'Wen yo' see a pig agoin' along Widder straw en de sider 'is mouf, It'll be a tuhble winter, En yo' bettuh move down Souf.'" He jumped up and dashed into a breakdown, clattering the bones, and screeching: "'Squirl he got a bushy tail, Possum's tail am bah, Raccoon's tail am ringed all roun' Touch him ef yo dah!

I'm a widder, and I never look to wed again,

I chanced to tell her of what I was out after, and she let on that she was a widder, and showed me the butter she hadhit was all made off of one cow, and the calf is three months old.

A widder's boys allers goes to ruin.

he, with his mint o' money, a'n't a-goin' to marry a poor widder that ha'n't got nothin' but her husband's pictur' and her boy,not he!" Others insinuated that Mrs. Branning knew what she was about when she went to Squire Kinloch's, and his wife was 'most gone with consumption.

And then, before the public mind had become sufficiently settled to inquire into the matter, the rumor changed itself into a piece of positive news: "The widder Kinzer's moved over into Ham's house, bag and baggage.

A man weighin' close onter two hundred pounds 'd naterally prefer to walk out o' the door, but the widder hauled Johnnie out o' winder.

There was buggy tracks at the foot o' the melon patch, and the widder's missin'.

I sez to myself: 'Others might be tempted by a plump, well-lookin' widder, but not Johnnie.'

But now that darned widder woman has onexpectedly kidnapped him.

Ye see, Johnnie is mighty apt to disappint the widder.

The widder can't let that cow o' hers go without two milkin's, an' her pigs an' chickens must be fed.

" "Ye druv in with the widder woman?" "Yas.

" "Is she still a widder woman, Johnnie?"

And afore he was hung McPhail Jest bilked the widder outen her sheer

She wuz a widder fer de secon' time, an' didn' have no child'en, an' could jes' as well come as not.

My mist'ess hadn' got col' yit, an' Mis' Polly, who'd be'n a widder fer two years dis las' time, wuz already fig'rin' on takin' her place fer good, an' she did n!

WIDDER, DAVID VERNON.

David Vernon Widder (A); 21Mar69; R458287.

"No?" "Widder, she takes on awful.

He told me to-day as him and the widder owned claims as 'jined, and they'd made up their minds to jine too.

By the way, it's the widder that's let the cat out of the bag.

"Truefitt, Truefitt," he repeated; "what sort of a woman is she?" "Widder-woman," said the landlord; "she lives there with 'er daughter Prudence.

" STRANGER"What's the fight about?" NATIVE"The feller on top is Hank Hill wot married the widder Strong, an' th' other's Joel Jenks, wot interdooced him to her.