"Indeed I did, ma'am," said the burglar, "you wouldn't catch me makin' no mistakes in that line.

"Of course I'd enjoy makin' it easy for you all I could," observed Bull with sarcasm.

" "You sure got the makin's of a squaw-man," I told him.

"He might ha' sent ye somethin' else I think," said Mary wrathfully; "I don't hold wi' makin' such a to-do about a chap as never did nothin' for you in his life.

"She always set consider'ble by me, mother did, bein' the oldest; and I wouldn't miss makin' her last days happy, not if it cost me all the arms and legs I've got," said Joe, as he awkwardly struggled into the big boots an hour after leave to go home was given him.

You know, Carroll"and Leverage smiled frankly"I'm always makin' these fine suggestions an' pullin' good stunts, an' never knowin' whether they're good or not until somebody tells me.

Ye little ken what cursèd speed The blastie's makin!

"But I couldn't move a foot without my knees bucklin', so I takes out my makin's and rolls a cigarette.

And then I introduced Blandina, knowin' I wuz makin' her perfectly happy by so doin'.