"'It's a shame to let 'im come out alone,' ses one o' the other gals.

"Why anybody could marry that gal that wanted to.

Farmin's drefful slow, but when a feller's got a gal he's got a cap'n; he has to mind orders.

It's my private opine, then, that that hunter has took the gal up among them Injins, and they're both living thar.

Then I put the bottle down quiet, and 'ad just got up to go when the door of the state-room opened, and I saw the drownded gal, with 'er little face and hair all wet and dripping, standing before me.

But dew yew know, gals, folks outside even go so fur's ter say that yew throw plates at one another!

"I seen Miss Johnnie Consadine when they was bringing the little gal down.

You can't blame a gal for tryin'.

Wal, w'en I wuz a young gal, livin' ter hum,my father wuz ez wealthy ez any farmer thereabeouts, ye know,I used ter keep company 'ith 'Miah Kemp.

"Now 'f he should find that unfort'nate gal!

He bought the Cap'n Wegg place an' spent summer 'fore last on ithim an' his three gals as is his nieces.

"I want my little gal!"

I'll git you another gal down in Arkansas," said the trader.

'Yer a brave gal, now, whoever ye are!' said the man.

Dat was death-blow to me, for I knew my Phillis was considered de smartest, best looking gal on de plantation; for many a time I hear massa say, dat gal worth a dozen common ones, and he spoke de truth for once, for I knows dar neber was anoder like her.

One time I 'ad a fresh gal every v'y'ge a'most.

All of a suddent we seed the gal, there, crawl out of the 'wickey-up.'

He'd set 'er down for wot he called a white witch, which is the best kind and on'y do useful things, such as charming warts away or telling gals about their future 'usbands; and the next arternoon, arter telling 'is wife's mother that fresh air and travelling was the best cure for the yellow jaundice, he set off to see 'er.

Sam and Peter was delighted, and they talked about it as if it was a pantermime, and old Sam said that when he was a young man he'd ha' fought six Bill Lumms afore he'd ha' given a gal up.

d my own calk'lations on that p'int, an' went sparkin' two or three er the pootiest gals, all that winter.

Quicker'n lightnin', Jerry made a spring, and, afore the Injun see him, he give him a blow with the butt of his rifle, that stunned him, and grabbed the gal and run.

She said she'd do the best she couldI never heered a gal speak up peartermost of 'em would be 'shamed to name it out so free.

You'll prob'ly hit the gal if you shoot, an' I'll pick you off lak three black skunks.

ter Europe, er Irope, er Orope, er somewhere er 'nother, 'way off yander, an' come back here las' year an' sta'ted dis yer horspital an' school fer ter train de black gals fer nusses.

Arter freedom, I hunted up our little gal, an' foun' her.