First off, when the breed girl busted the casks, he took her home 'stead of bringin' her to me.

" And Polly, looking up into the kind sweet face, told the whole story,all about the long saving for the little paint-box, Jane's valentine, and everything, winding up eagerly with the appeal,"And wouldn't you buy the paint-box now 'stead of the valentine, 'cos the paint-box mebbe'll be gone when I get more money?" "Wouldn't I?

But den de house face Eighth Street 'stead o' Seventh Street, lak it do now.

Mr. Dunlop walked a little farther on, and passed a farm-stead, where a servant was driving out a number of swine, and banning them with "Deevil tak them!"

"It's in her," was an explanation which Westley Keyts thought all-sufficient, though he added by way, as it were, of putting this into raised letters for the blind, "she'd have to raise hell just the same if it had cost that there railroad eight million 'stead of eight hundred to exterminate Potts!"

Up the street we went, steer bawling and buck-jumping, my hair a-flying, and me as busy as the little bee you read about keeping that steer underneath me, 'stead of on top of me, where he'd ruther be, and after us the whole town, whoopin', yellin', crackin' off six-shooters, and carryin' on wild.

Anyhow, there was this good in itthe full buckets would be to carry down hill 'stead of up.