If he wanted more, I'd let him have an eighty j'inun'"---- "I'd like t' try that m'self," said Lime, as a feeler.

The old fellow said nothing in reply for a moment.
"Ef you had a team an' tools an' a woman, I'd jest as lief you'd have it as anybody." "Sell me your blacks, and I'll pay half down--the balance in the fall.

I can pick up some tools, and as for a woman, Merry Etty an' me have talked that over to-day.

She's ready to--ready to marry me whenever you say go." There was an ominous silence under the seeder, as if the father could not believe his ears.
"What's--what's that ?" he stuttered.

"Who'd you say?
What about Merry Etty ?" "She's agreed to marry me." "The hell you say!" roared Bacon, as the truth burst upon him.