" "I don't know, but when I told grandma about it, Mrs. Larkins was in the room, and she said if she had done a child of hers so, she would have gone there and sauced her head off; but grandma said that she would not notice it; that the easiest way is the best.

Has another taken the place of Henry Warner?" "Don't ask me, grandma," cried Maggie, covering her face with her hands; "don't ask me, for indeed I can only tell you that I am very unhappy.

They brought grandma back out here with them from Tennessee.

He said they was fixing to sell grandma.

But he never could cumolate enough to buy grandma.

" Grandpa had now hastened home to hold me on his lap and to hear me say that I was glad to be at his house and intended to help grandma all

Three times she wrote "My dear grandma," then with a throb of anguish she dashed her pen across the revered name, and wrote simply "Madam Conway."

On the first of September, 1855, a widow, whom I shall call Stein, and her little son Johnnie, came to visit grandma.

A few vigorous shakes, however, aroused her, when, greatly to the amazement of her grandmother, she burst into a merry laugh, and, winding her arms around the highly scandalized lady's neck, said: "Forgive me, grandma, I've been awake ever since you came home.

I did not mean to frighten grandma.

She married this Louisiana man, then sent back to her father's house and got grandma; she got her for a nurse.

Peter was rather a godsend to grandma in the matter of stockings; no wool that was ever carded could resist his vigorous onslaughts, and it kept grandma busy all her spare moments to supply his restless feet with warm covering.

" "Coming," said Kitty, kissing grandma fondly, and then following Pompey as he marched gravely up to open the door of Mrs. Verplanck's morning-room.

"Why don't you answer me; what makes you behave so bad?" "I don't know, grandma, I 'specs I did it for the devil.

Mother, and Susy, and Prudy had gone to Willowbrook, to grandpa Parlin'sof course they had,and left grandma Bead all alone in the house, with nothing to eat.

"Except one thing," added grandma, looking at Dotty, who was snapping the tongs together.

She had now come to Sonoma hoping that if Mr. Miller should pay grandma for the care we had been to her, she would consent to give us up in order that we four sisters might be reunited in one home.

Those which pleased grandma best were from the homes of Mr. Jacob Leese, Captain Fitch, Major Prudon, and General Vallejo; for their patronage influenced other distinguished Spanish families at a distance to send for her excellent cheese and fancy pats of butter.

She ran into their little front room where the elder was working on a sermon, pulling grandma out of the kitchen by the hand.

I don't know if old man Pettus raised grandma or not; he never grandpa.

"I recollect grandma.

I do remembers grandma.

He often reminded grandma that she should teach us to speak the high German, so that we might appear well among gentlefolk; and my cherished keepsakes included two wee gold dollars and a fifty-cent piece of the same bright metal, which he had given me after fortunate sales from the herds.

"They didn't scalp grandma.

I never saw my grand fathers and I seen one grandma I remembers.