" "Oh!" "Maybe you're wonderin'," said Potts, "why he's a Colonel!"

"I wouldn't advise you to waste much time wonderin'," she said with fire.

A few nights after she said, "Well, George, I suppose you are wonderin' now who this old lady is, though I am not to say real old either.

It's too beautiful to think of, Uncle Billy; I can't help lookin' at myself an' wonderin' if it's me.

We was buyin' some cotton to a store in the city, and I was lookin' about at all the pretty things, and wonderin' why I was picked out to be poor when so many folks was rich and had all they wanted, when presently I heerd a lady in a silk gown say to another one, so low she thought I didn't hear her,"There are two nice-looking girls, Mrs. Carr.

"Now I wonder," mused Racey Dawson, "I shore am wonderin' what kind of skulduggery li'l Mr. Lanpher of the 88 is a-trying to crawl out of and what Mr. Stranger is a-trying to drag him into.

"I was just a-wonderin'.

Now, Mas'r Davy, you're a-wonderin' what that little candle is for, ain't yer?

I hain't never heard no other woman's voice that's got jest the sound to't hern has; an' what with that, an' thinkin' how beat the Elder'd be, an' wonderin' who in thunder she was anyhow, I don't believe I opened my dum lips for a full minute; but she kind o' smiled, and sez she, 'Do you know Mr. Kinney?'

"I begin wonderin' what pa was drivin' at, but I didn't say nothin'jest held myself together and waited.

I looked in at his winder, a wonderin' what he wanted wid a fire in summer time, an' saw him heatin' the stuff.

Still ye'll be wonderin' how I was reminded of all this at Montrose, where Mac and I showed how bad we were at gowf!

I couldna help wonderin' about the bairns; where was their mither?

Lookin' at you out of one of the pigeon-holes, an' wonderin' if I'd better risk it.

I do be often wonderin' after readin' the newspapers if God has forgotten about the world altogether.

Then one begins to wonderin the twilight, for choicewhen one will see those palms again from the other side.

I was wonderin'" "Oh, no, not now, Andrew.

I'm wonderin' what would 'a' happened if Sterling hadn't made that fight and the I.W.W. had run loose.

"'Saloon,' says I, wonderin' where he found the queerness of my words.

Up to the arm-pits he was, an' not five minutes to live, when we hauled 'en out, an' wonderin' what he could be doin' there, found he'd been stealin' our eggs.

Well, as I was agoin' to tell you, havin' got out o' the boat, I'd just sense enough left to clamber up above high-water mark, an' there I sat starin' stupid-like an' wonderin' how I'd done it.

And I enjoyed it too, for I always wuz wonderin' what wuz goin' on under my feet, and now I had a glimpse on't.

I had quite a number of emotions here in China a musin' on the oldness and strangeness of their civilization, and wonderin' if it would ever be merged into a newer, fresher life.

As we did so we hearn the voice of oratory comin' from the other side, where some Esquimeaux seemed to be gathered with open mouths and wonderin' linements.

That's what does the damagewatchin' and wonderin' and then goin' to see.