'Bless her,' she said, as her tears fell fast, 'it's a little girl!' 'Ay,' said my grandfather, 'so it is; it's a bonnie wee lassie!' CHAPTER IV.

"Ah!" he said, smiling, "if only there was some little lassie who could get hold of him.

" Bonnie lassie, fairest lassie, Dear art thou to me; Let me think, my bonnie lassie, I am lov'd by thee!

For a brief space a fear had seized himof which he now felt shame indeedthat his sweet lassie might be about to ask for jewels or rich attire; and it would have sorely hurt Sandy's pride in her had this been so.

Little Rachel is as sweet a little bright-eyed lassie as I ever saw, hardly saying anything yet, but expressing a vast deal.

Women and men wull be comrades more; there'll be fewer helpless lassies who canna find their way aboot without a man to guide them.

Silent Anna knew at least two or three; was it not a fault a hundred times too grave to be uninteresting, for a big artillerist to take a little frightened lassie as cruelly at her word as he was doing right here and now?

An' 'what did yer parents say to ye?' 'They said ye was an awfu' nice, clever, bonny, handsome lassie' 'Tit, tit!

Women and men wull be comrades more; there'll be fewer helpless lassies who canna find their way aboot without a man to guide them.

He then rose and said, addressing himself to Miss MacNabb, "I propose the old Scottish toast of 'Honest men and bonnie lassies,'" and bowing to the hostess, he resumed his seat.

And there was a bonnie lassie to sing Scots songs in her lovely voicea wee bit of a lassie she was, that surprised you with the strength of her voice when she sang.

She called them her "lovable lassies.

Jim Horscroft was away when Cousin Edie was with us, but he came back the very week she went; and I mind how surprised I was that he should ask any questions or take any interest in a mere lassie.

A villain had betrayed this mitherless lassie; used her as a plaything for months, and then, when the inevitable happened, deserted her, leaving her to face a stern father and a world that was not likely to be tender to her.

But the country's a bonnie, bonnie lassie, as pure as the heather in the dell.

Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie.

It was just a day or twa after I had heard the intelligence, I was telling Jeannie and her mother o' the circumstance, and what an escape I had had, when the servant lassie showed a bank clerk into the room.

It's not for me to talk of the sad problem of the superfluous womanthe lassie whose life seems to be over when it's but begun.

This was Roseen, a tall and comely lassie of seventeen, in whose pretty, saucy face, however, and clear blue eyes, there still remained much of the child.

7 " Wash up. 8 " Light your pipe, walk to window, and see your colleague over the way, with a couple of Patagonian footmen flying about amid a dozen guests, while, to give additional zest to your feelings of enjoyment, a couple of buxom lassies are peeping out of the attics, and singing like crickets.

But, though we were there longer, it was not long enough to make me yield to that temptation to cuddle one of the brown lassies!

The Lambert girlsthe pretty twins and the younger, slim slip of a lassie, Elinorwere charming, fresh, natural, unspoiled, very different from and far more to his taste than most of the young women who came to Crest Househot-house products, over-sophisticated, cynical, too familiar with rouge and cigarettes and the game of love and lure, huntresses more or less, the whole pack of them.