Mediator: “Oh, no!”

Lizzie: “Den it isn’t love w’ot’s a-worryin’ him. W’ot he wants is exercise.”

WHY IT WAS OFF.

“W’ot’s de matter, Billy—is de engagement broke off?”

“Yes; it’s no use payin’ intentions to a gal w’ot kin knock de head off yer with a simple lick, an’ dat’s w’ot she come near doin’ de last time I called on her. If I marries a gal I wants ter be boss, an’ if dere’s any fightin’ to be did I wants ter be champion.”

A GUILTY PALM.

“Feodora, yer have been a deceivin’ of me. Yer hand tells me yer have been married twicet!”