"Every night they lock me upstairs," he continued with a look of injury; "they ain't fit fer nobody t' live with.

Mebbe ef I thought about it fer a few days I wouldn't be able t' do it, an' he mightn't have another chanct like this in his whole life.

" "You kin see I ain't missed a single chanct t' hear any of 'em since I made up my mind t' be a great man"and then appalled by his lengthy burst of eloquence the child colored violently and concluded in confusion"an' this mornin' I got so interested in them speeches o' Daly's an' Fink's, I must 'a' lost all track o' time, fer when I come out it was noon, an' Baldy was gone.

Ye know a man in the hoss business is apt t' git a leetle careless, but I ain't no such dum fool as I used t' be.

The princess bent over the parchment, watching our mighty "t" while the ink was drying, but the process was too slow for her, so she filled her cheeks and breathed upon the writing.

Do ye know how t' chop er hoe er swing a scythe?" "Yes." "Wal, then, if ye don't ever git t' be President, ye won't have t' starve.

"I didn't mean what I said about havin' you up, Buzz; honest t'

"Well, if I egged you on, I'm sorry fer 't," said Mrs. Endey, solemnly.

Thy sun at its zenith on earth ceased to shine, But beams with new lustre in regions divine; For ages eternal 't will ever shine on Still gath'ring new splendor from God's dazzling throne.

It is more correctly expressed by ne voilà pas, the barbarism resulting from the consideration of voilà as a verb and the introduction of the euphonic t and the il of impersonal verbs (Littré, "voilà," 10°), MA MIE.

His more excellent talents however might, perhaps, have continued the player at Dublin, and lost the poet at London; but for an accident, which was likely to turn a feigned t

"We got pretty nearly half an hour t' wait, Dan, an' it's fierce t' have all these people that don't know a blame thing about racin' standin' round here givin' us fool advice.

First would come a flaming T; Then U would follow, TU; Then P, TUP; Until at last there stood complete, across the sky, this cheerful message to all who felt the burthen of life's earnestness: TUPPER'S TONIC WINE FOR VIGOUR. Snap!

I walked inter town t' git 'em, an' Baldy come with me, though she said I was foolish t' be bothered with him.

"There's more than mae and Assy thot's freetened t' marry yo," she said.

Be witness to the curse pronounced by me, A widowed maiden at the hour of death, Thou setting Sun and thou, O rising Moon!" Then as a bride in all her glory decked Approaches with a gladdened heart t' embrace Th' expectant bridegroom on the nuptial bed, E'en so ascended this fair Queen the pyre, And there embracing lay by her dear lord.

Ain't no wise healthy t' worry 'bout business, you know.

That short, potential stir That each can make but once, That bustle so illustrious 'T is almost consequence, Is the eclat of death.

When I was keekin inta t' winda at the nags, he comes behint me and claps his claw on ma shouther, and he gars me gang wi' him, and open the aad coach-house door, and haad the cannle for him, till he pearked into the deed man't feyace; and, as God's my judge, I sid the corpse open its eyes and wark its mouth, like a man smoorin' and strivin' to talk.

But, tell me, don't you think maybe he's covered up a leetle too close-t?

The Times should ever see How very far the times have moved (Spelt with a little "t").

this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea: So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Yo was mad t' roon affter 'im afore 'e called yo.

"'T ain't med t' squ'sh with, I cal'late t' p'int it at 'em 'n' jab.

"Yes, mum 't is the word!