Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!

The beast was sitting on his haunches at the foot of the ladder, and it was quite evident he was not short on time. The gleam in his eye seemed to say:"I've got you two unprincipled subscription hunters beautifully treed and it's treed you're going to stay. That is what I call satisfying.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared.

She was thankful she no longer felt very bad, When you are bludgeoned on the head repeatedly, you naturally and mercifully become more or less insensible and stupid,

If there is anything coming it may as well come soon and be done with, for with all these rags to dye before supper I have no time to waste in flirting,

The only fault he found with her was that she did not sing at her work. “Folks should always sing at their work,” he insisted. “Sounds cheerful-like.” “Not always,” retorted Valancy. “Fancy a butcher singing at his work. Or an undertaker.

Well, it is half an hour yet before prayer-meeting time, so I am going around to the kitchen garden to have a little evening hate with the weeds.

She gives me meals that stick to my ribs. She don't forget to put salt in the porridge. She never slams doors, and when she has nothing to say, she don't talk. That's uncanny in a woman, you know, Mister.