while Mrs. Hicks was fixing around in the rht soo went out inside; and I sat there a while reverberatiimes ahen I heard Mrs. Hicks call out, 'Ain't you ing in soon, Lem?'

    "'Well, well!' says I, kind  up. 'Durn me if I wasn't waiting for old Paisley to--'

    "But when I got that far," cluded Telemachus Hicks, "I thought somebody had shot this left ear of mih a forty-five. But it turo be only a lihahe hands of Mrs. Hicks."