If she wanted to see you, she would 'a come down." "Oh, now, this is too barbarous! Colonel Gundry, you are the most tyrannous man; in your own dominions an autocrat.

Every body says so, but I never would believe it.

Oh, don't let me go away with that impression.

And you do look so good-natured!" "And so I mean to look, Miss Penny, until you are out of sight." The voice of the Sawyer was more dry than that of his oldest and rustiest saw.

The fashionable and highly finished girl had no idea what to make of him; but gave her young horse a sharp cut, to show her figure as she reined him; and then galloping off, she kissed her tan gauntlet with crimson net-work down it, and left Uncle Sam to revolve his rudeness, with the dash of the wet road scattered in the air.
"I wouldn't 'a spoke to her so course," he said to Firm, who now returned from opening the gate and delivering his farewell, "if she wasn't herself so extra particular, gild me, and sky-blue my mouldings fine.