He gwine strike, he am, agin dish yer mewel bizness." "Look here, Winn," said Billy Brackett, when he had recovered his gravity, "didn't I offer a reward for your discovery ?" "To be sure you did; and I meant to claim it, too.

That's what I got the printer to point out Mr.'Brickell' for.

So I'll take it now, if you please." "That is one of the rewards I expected to earn," remarked Cap'n Cod.
"And I wrote to your father for full particulars concerning your disappearance; but I don't suppose there is any chance for me now, so long as you have discovered yourself, unless you could make it convenient to get lost again." "I was rather expecting to come in for that reward myself," said the Sheriff.
"While I," said Billy Brackett, "had about concluded that if any one was entitled to it, it was the young rascal's worthy uncle.

But I'll tell you how we will settle these several claims.

Solon here is almost the only one who has not applied for the reward, though I am convinced that he is as well entitled to it as any of us.