"I wouldn't mind being an entomologist myself if there were many such as this and that green beetle to be had.

I am gathering botanical specimens," and she opened her portfolio.
"But how did you come to be in Metropolisville ?" "Why," interrupted Mr.Minorkey, "I couldn't stand the climate at Perritaut.

The malaria of the Big Gun River affected my health seriously.
I had a fever night before last, and I thought I'd get away at once, and I made up my mind there was more oxygen in this air than in that at Perritaut.

So I came up here this morning.

But I'm nearly dead," and here Mr.Minorkey coughed and sighed, and put his hand on his breast in a self-pitying fashion.
As Mr.Minorkey wanted to inspect an eighty across the slough, on which he had been asked to lend four hundred dollars at three per cent a month, and five after maturity, with a waiver in the mortgage, he suggested that Helen should walk back, leaving him to go on slowly, as the rheumatism in his left knee would permit.