I'm goin' to git the thing off my mind this trip." "Very well, sir," said John, "but let me ask, did Swinney assign the mortgage without any trouble ?" "O Lord! yes," was the reply.

"The' wa'n't nothin' else fer him to do.

I had another twist on him that I hain't mentioned.

But he put up a great show of doin' it to obleege me.

Wa'al, I thanked him an' so on, an' when we'd got through I ast him if he wouldn't step over to the 'Eagil' an' take somethin', an' he looked kind o' shocked an' said he never drinked nothin'.