So you were the hired man who gave me the buggy.

Well, I don't suppose they discharged you for it." "No," said Ezekiel, with undisturbed equanimity.

"I kalkilate Joan would have stopped that.

Considerin', too, that I knew her when she was Deacon Salisbury's darter, and our fam'lies waz thick az peas.

She knew me well enough when I met her in Frisco the other day." "Have you seen Mrs.Demorest already ?" said Demorest, with sudden vivacity.