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 spazzum, and finally stepped back fairly exhausted and pantin'. Miss Greene Smythe advanced and shook hands with her and told her what a sweet treat they had had, and how splendidly in voice she wuz to-night. And so she wuz if a car whistle or gong is ever in voice when it is rippin' out its loudest, ear-pan-crushinest notes.

But I wuz wonderin' all the time when the music that Miss Greene Smythe had spoke about wuz goin' to commence, and I turned and accosted a female woman who stood right by the side of me, and who seemed to be guardin' a brood of girls, she seemed to be watchin' 'em as clost as any old hen ever watched a brood of ducks she'd hatched, but kinder mistrusted, not knowin' what move they might make.

But thinkses I she'd better begun her watchin' and care before she left home, for of all the sights they wuz I never see since I wuz weaned, I don't believe I ever see such low necks in my hull life as they had, the hull caboodle on 'em. Why, my pardner jest glanced at 'em and blushed as red as a piney. I wuz proud on him to see his modesty, and instinctively stepped still furder between him and them. The Ma's neck wuz kinder fat and flabby and wrinkly, and the girls', the most on 'em, wuz real boney and scrawny. But one on 'em wuz quite fat and had a real pretty figger, I know, for I could see the hull on it, bones, fat or lean, they wuz all showed off to be read by man or woman. But to resoom. I asked this woman when the music wuz goin' to commence?

"Why," sez she, wonderin', "we've had it."

Sez I, "Wuz that music?"

She said, "Yes."

"Well," sez I, "I have seen strange sights since I