"Fifty million dollars!" "No, I said to you, Samantha, that in our conversation we would leave out the orts, fifty dollars wuz what I meant.

Jane and Walter, after many "prave 'orts" about climbing the ridge behind Drogmulla, contented themselves with a minor ascent of a knoll about fifty feet high, while the Lancer, reckless in his increasing activity, managed to trip over his crutches and give himself an extremely unfortunate fall.

And so he jogged to Tot'n'am Cross, An ancient town well known, Where Edward wept for Eleanor In mortar and in stone A royal game of fox and goose, To play on such a loss; Wherever she set down her orts, Thereby he put a cross.

'The metal good and the walnut-wood Did soon in splinters flee; They tossed the orts to south and north, And grappled knee to knee.

The metal good and the walnut wood Did soon in flinders flee; They tost the orts to south and north, And grappled knee to knee.

I mean these here mammies that I see puttin' little tricks to work that ort to be runnin' out o' doors gettin' their strength and growthwell, po' souls, I reckon they don't know no better, God forgive 'em!"