We know you got powerful good hearin', Jim, but we all figger you been makin' somethin' out of nothin'.

You couldn't help hearin' 'em.

Course I members hearin' em talk bout Mars Newt.

" "But, Da," she cried, seizing the lapel of his coat, "don't you mind hearin' o' how the priests have given whiskey to the Indians when they couldn't get the white captives away from them any other way?

"I can recollect hearin' the folks hollerin' when the Yankees come through and singin' this old cornfield song 'I'm a goin' away tomorrow Hoodle do, hoodle do.'

But owre my left shouther I gae him a blink, Lest neebours might say I was saucy: My wooer he capered as he'd been in drink, And vowed I was his dear lassie, dear lassie, And vowed I was his dear lassie! I spiered for my cousin fu' couthy and sweet, Gin she had recovered her hearin, And how her new shoon fit her auld shachled feet

"I can remember back to Breckenridge; and I can remember hearin' em say 'Hurrah for Buchanan!'

" "I do hear something," said Dick as he got up, "but the beating o' my own heart makes row enough to spoil my hearin'.