Why Lord love you, they are in full force here yet.

See what a feller swears by--that's his test, and no mistake.
"Well, you wouldn't guess now there was so much to talk of, would you?
But hear 'em over and over every day, the same everlastin' round, and you would think the topics not so many arter all, I can tell you.

It soon runs out, and when it does, you must wait till the next rain, for another freshet to float these heavy logs on.
"Coffee comes, and then it's up and jine the ladies.

Well, then talk is tried agin, but it's no go; they can't come it, and one of the good-natured fat old lady-birds goes to the piany, and sits on the music stool.

Oh, Hedges! how it creaks, but it's good stuff, I guess, it will carry double this hitch; and she sings 'I wish I was a butterfly.' Heavens and airth! the fust time I heard one of these hugeaceous critters come out with that queer idee, I thought I should a dropt right off of the otter man on the floor, and rolled over and over a-laughin', it tickled me so, it makes me larf now only to think of it.