"Ah! well, my dear fellow," said he with the slight lisp which he affected, "Valentine is determined to put on a new gown.

From what could vanity proceed In such a little lisping lad? Or was it vanity indeed? Or was he only very glad? For he without his maid may go To the heath with elder boys, And pluck ripe berries where they grow: Well may William then rejoice.

What, is that you, Thomas? THOMAS (with the fashionable lisp of the fifties, always substituting 'th' for 's').

There is then an uninterrupted gliding of pens for three-quarters of an hour, until, above the monotony, rarely the eloquence, of the speaker, the great clock in the centre of the building gives the significant sound of relief to busy fingers and rest to ear and brain unaccustomed to such slow, entangled, lisping, laborious, in rare instances manly delivery.

No sooner were we all settled in the Bonnie Lassie's studio than the mother proceeded to regale us with a history and forecast of his career, beginning with his precocious infant lispings and terminating with his projected, though wholly indefinite, marriage into the Highest Social Circles.

"And you talk better," said Mr. Mills, taking his glass from the counter and emptying it; "you ain't got that silly lisp you used to have.

There is then an uninterrupted gliding of pens for three-quarters of an hour, until, above the monotony, rarely the eloquence, of the speaker, the great clock in the centre of the building gives the significant sound of relief to busy fingers and rest to ear and brain unaccustomed to such slow, entangled, lisping, laborious, in rare instances manly delivery.

She very soon got over her childish lisp, and even before she was four years old she spoke with perfect distinctness.

LISPING "Have you lost another tooth, Bethesda?" asked auntie, who noticed an unusual lisp.

in an excited lisp spoke up little Tod Smith, the youngest pupil in the school.