One of 'em wuz a-cryin', I guess.

His ma hadn't nothin' but love to give him, but you could see that she wuz a-givin' him that liberal.
And Durant's "Spanish Singing Girl" rousted up a sight of admiration; she wuz _very_ good-lookin'-- looked a good deal like my son's wife.
Well, in the Russian Department (and jest see how my revery flops about, clear from America to Russia at one jump)-- There wuz a picter there of a boat in a storm.
And on that boat is thrown a vivid ray of sunshine.

You'd think that it wuz the real thing, and that you could warm your fingers at it, but it hain't--it is only painted sunshine.

But it beats all I ever see; I wouldn't hesitate for a minute to use it for a noon-mark.
In the German Exhibit wuz as awful a picter as I want to see.

It was Julia, old Mr.Serviuses girl--Miss Tarquin that now is--a-ridin' over her pa and killin' him a purpose, so she could git his property.
To see Miss Tarquin, that wicked, wicked creeter, a-doin' that wicked act, is enough to make a perfect race of old maids and bacheldors.
The idea of havin' a lot of children to take care on and then be rid over by 'em! But I shall always believe that she wuz put up to it by the Tarquin boys.