'Don't neglect your dooty again.

If I split about Mrs. Plimmer, he'd split to the guv'nor about my leaving my dooty, and I should get the sack.

"But I knows my dooty as City Marshal, and I says, 'No,' and Bonsor says, says he, 'If you can't git the idee o' that fifteen hundred dollars out

I just took a peep through the wicket and saw that Joe 'ad taken up my dooty, and then we set off.

The coachman frowned and hastily retreated a step; but in another moment he leaped in a rage upon Sweetwater, when the sight of the flowers he held recalled him to himself and he let his hand fall again with the quiet remark: "You're overstepping your dooty.

I al'ays thought 'twas a wife's dooty to help her husband, but since it seems to be a favour, I'm sure I did ought to be very grateful.

" "Don't want no pay fer doin' my dooty, Mass Louis.