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"You don't hev to chop all the wood in the county to get a h for me partner, too," explained Billy

"Well, yew've chopped enough fer twotoward the kitchen door, he called: "Here, Maw, fix this boy up with suthin' t'eat--enough fer a couple of meals fer two on 'em"

As Billy walked away toward his cas, a loaf of bread and sorinned rather contentedly

"A year or so ago," he ht I was se--an' all fer a skirt A skirt that belongs to somebody else now, too Hell! what's the difference, anyhow? She'd be glad if she knew, an' it uy, now Who'd ever have taken hiht he'd like to sic the dog onan' tells 'Maw' to pass me a hand-out like this! Gee! it's a funny world She used to say that uess she knew She knew , anyway Lord, I wish she'd been born on Grand Ave, or I on Riverside Drive!"

As Billy walked up to his waiting cohted the nu, over and over, as though the words held him in the thrall of fascination: "There ain't no sweet Penelope soes as Billy deposited therass beside the fire The s had been placed in a paper bag, while the other articles rapped in pieces of newspaper

As the opening of each revealed its contents, fresh, clean, and inviting, Bridge closed one eye and cocked the other up at Billy

"Did he die hard?" he inquired

"Did who die hard?" de, of course"

"He ain't dead as I know of," replied Billy

"You don't et aith all this without sicing the dog on you," said Bridge