Everybody's jest dyin' to hear the noos.

So I invited a select number of 'em to come here to yer parlors to-night, Miss Frona, ez the only likely place, an' they kin read it out loud, by shifts, ez long ez they want or till they're tired--that is, if you'll let 'em have the use of the place." "Why, of course, they are welcome.

And you are very kind to--" He waved her praise away.

"Jest ez I kalkilated.

Now it so happens, ez you said, that I was pinched on sugar.