to, but which good honest folks, like you and I, calls married, then I would say that he mite go further and fare a site wusser, than to come over here and examine my stock of risin' feminine genders.

I pray now, let me ask you one question that I remember: whether is the masculine gender or the feminine more worthy? IMMERITO.

Before any one could speak Anglo-Saxon correctly, he had first to learn the fanciful genders that were attached to nouns: "trousers" was feminine; "childhood," masculine; "child," neuter.

" "You will find little there except the toggery of some of honest Joe's female gender.

Figurative gender is indicated only by the personal pronouns of the singular number: as, "When we say of the sun, He is setting; or of a ship, She sails well.

In the third declension especially the (grammatical) gender in many instances is arbitrary. § 26.

" "You will find little there except the toggery of some of honest Joe's female gender.

Unfortunately he employed a word of indeterminate gender: hence the lamentable denouement.

We would have recognized it as the sanctum of two or three noisy urchins of the male gender, even had we not known it beforehand.

In one respect they puzzled methey were of conflicting genders, some feminine and some masculine, as if in Leavitt's loose-frayed imagination the mountain that beguiled his days and disturbed his nights were hermaphroditic.

These are declined like nouns, having sometimes three sets of terminations for the respective genders, sometimes two, (masc. and fem.

Others, under a like mistake, resort occasionally, (as in the foregoing instance,) to an androgynal, and also to a doubtful gender: both of which are more objectionable than the common gender of the old grammarians; though this common "distinction with regard to sex," is, in our language, confessedly, no distinction at all.

According to this, we must have five genders, exclusive of that which is called common; namely, the masculine, the feminine, the neuter, the androgynal, and the doubtful. OBS.