He had the usual smile of a man who hoped to sell his wares; but to my horror and astonishment, by some process which I could not understand, I saw that he was saying to himself, 'What a dd fool!

He refused, saying he would shake hands with no such dd rascal.

I've known all along you're a dd thief, Norton, and you've just proved it to me yourself.

"None of your dd business!"

"Such a day, rum all out;our company somewhat sober;a dd confusion amongst us!rogues a plotting;great talk of separation.

To a hump-backed lady who declared that she had "come straight from London," Nash replied, "Then you must have picked up a dd crook by.

I've a dd deuce!

There is a dd draught.' Sir George complied, and, nodding to the servants, walked back to the woman.

These were the sort of remarks one had to put up with: "I say, old chap, there's a dd fellow in a mackintosh suit up stream; he's bagged my water"; or, "Who is that idiot who has been flogging away all the afternoon in one place?

"Come back!" he roared, before I could get to the door, "we won't have any of your dd forineering habits here!

"You dd idiot, ye did na' gie away the powny without getting the siller for't; wha was he?"

"A dd liar," he added emphatically.

"That's a dd lie.

That's my dd luck, and yours too, I suppose.

These People may cry Ch-rch, Ch-rch, as long as they please, but, to make use of a homely Proverb, The Proof of the P-dd-ng is in the eating.

" "This is an outrage," declared Dr. Burns, "a dd outrage!

He is a dd scoundrel who would sell his immortal soul if he could get a bid for it.

A dozen Raoul Yvards wouldn't lead me into such a dd scrape again!"

you are, I see, a dd set of butchers.

"He is a dd ass!" said Cornet Horsephiz, who was very ugly; "a horrid puppy!" said Lieutenant St. Squintem, who was still uglier; "if he does not ride better he will disgrace the regiment," said Captain Rivalhate, who was very good-looking; "if he does not ride better, we will cut him!" said Colonel Everdrill, who was a wonderful martinet; "I say, Mr. Bumpemwell (to the riding-master,) make that youngster ride less like a miller's sack.

Then he laughed and said"And all the time my gun was empty, for I did not have a dd thing to put into it."

"A very pretty ball," said my fellow batsman at the other wicket "A dd pretty ball," I reiterated sotto voce, as I beat a retreat towards the flag in the corner of the field, which served as a pavilion.

It is this dd bookishness which is so unreal.