Fame, madam, awaits your talented pardner.

But then, as I told Josiah as we went down the steps when he wuz blamin' me for this contrary temps, as men always will blame their pardners for most everything, I sez: "China is used to bein' backed into by foreigners, I guess they'll overlook it.

Jack got us boys pardners for every dance.

"He might a-been getting ready to chuck his pardner.

" "What do you mean?" "Ratty Beslow; my owd colleague an' sparring pardner.

While he was dining his pardner gathered up the blankets and crawled out.

" Meanwhile, O'Flynn, hugging the pleasant consciousness that he had distinguished himselfhis pardner, toocomplained that the only contribution Mac or the Boy had made was to kick up a row.

He would come up from his work almost on the run, and if he failed to find his pardner in the tent there was the devil to pay.

And I follered my pardner out of the buildin'.

But I also got a pardner.

Go and help your pardner.

Jest as Jabez streaked it home, I watchin' him from the buttery window and also keepin' my pardner at bey in the milk room, I see a buggy drive into the yard, and wuz I not glad to see the manly form and calm quiet face of Royal Nelson.

"It seems I'm the kind of man, Colonelthe kind of man who could leave his pardner to die like a dog in the snow.

That's no way for a hired man to act, let alone a pardner.'

"It's 'ladies' night,' you knowOphelia, pick your pardner!" "Awdon't you reckon you ought to choose one of the others first?" Bert, considerably embarrassed by the sudden attention, mumbled as he moved with pretended reluctance but secret eagerness out on to the floor.

He loves her dearly and thinks it a man's place to protect his pardner.

You remember Wind-River Smith's pardner that the boys called Shadder, because he was so thin?

No man who really knows the trail would have dared, under the circumstances, to remind his pardner that it was now his business to get up and fry the bacon.

His emotions and the dirt choked him, and he faintly added: "Tell the bretheren and see that it is put in the Jonesville Augur, that I died a hero's death tryin' to save my pardner."

When Ben gave the word, "Secure your pardners for the first quadrille," Miller led out the bride to the first position in the best room, Jack's short leg barring him as a participant.

He is ze ornamental, shleeping' pardner, eh?"

And we stayed there till my head seemed to turn 'round and 'round, and I told my pardner I must git out into the open air or I should begin to turn 'round and revolve in spite of me.

Mr. Fink then give me forty dollars, and ses he, 'That a'n't all; for I have so much business now, I want a pardner, and I'll take you, and give you one third of the earnin's.'