On the edge of the woods a multitude of horses were picketed, and there were booths that sold food and drink, merry-go-rounds and fiddlers, and an immense concourse of every condition of folk, black slaves and water-side Indians, squatters from the woods, farmers from all the valleys, and the scum and ruck of the plantations.

"Ain' goin' t' hab no t'iefs roun' dis yere house, not if I knows it.

Dere's goin' ter be Holiness to de Lord written on de bells ob de horses bimeby, Missy.

To please Mrs. Newcome, his father whipped Tommy for upsetting his little brothers in the go-cart; but, upon being pressed to repeat the whipping for some other prank, Mr. Newcome refused, saying that the boy got flogging enough at school, with which opinion Master Tommy fully agreed.

* MARRIAGES IN CHINA Are effected through the assistance of go-betweens, who enjoy, however, a very different repute from those of Europe, inasmuch as, among the former, the employ is of the most honourable character.

I'm a-goin' home.

They're go-getters, these red-coats are.

SEE Guest, Edgar A. Miss Minerva goin' places.

Thus we write fathers-in-law, sons-in-law, knights-errant, courts-martial, cousins-german, hangers-on, comings-in, goings-out, goings-forth, varying the first; and manhaters, manstealers, manslayers, maneaters, mandrills, handfuls, spoonfuls, mouthfuls, pailfuls, outpourings, ingatherings, downsittings, overflowings, varying the last.

Lady Middleshire, who is one of the most beautiful and gifted of our young go-ahead hostesses, assured her husband that she meant no harm and had no Bolshie leanings, but simply wanted to be even with Lady Oldacres, who has secured the Eskimo Contortionists from the Palladrome for her Easter party.

"A week amongst yew boys," he asserted gaily, "is a-goin' tew be the makin' of me.

They were sick of bacon and beans, and were "goin' huntin'."

It was a momentous occasion for him when at the age of five he was apparelled in the paraphernalia of samurai costume, placed upon a go-board and initiated into the rights of the military profession by having thrust into his girdle a real sword, instead of the toy dirk with which he had been playing.

" And with this, he made another salaam, smiled persuasively, and said "Alpha, beta, gamma, deltachin-chinPotz tausend!Erin-go-bragh!" "Borriobooloobah!" shrieked his majesty, apparently stung to desperation.

They burnt my lips thess now like a coal o' fire an'an' lockjaw is goin' roun' tur'ble.

The go-giver; a better way of getting along in life.

I do not wish to weary my readers with statistics, and therefore trust I have said enough to convey a tolerable impression of the go-aheadism of these hardy and energetic descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers; and, for the same reasons, I have not made any observations upon their valuable libraries, hospitals, houses of industry, reformation, &c., the former of which are so largely indebted to private munificence.

"One time, jus' when ever'thing was a-goin' fine, a sad thing happened.

"Dey goin' git marry.

G-G-God's lid, are ye go-good at that?

He roared back to the remonstrating Colonel that he didn't care if an up-river steamer did come while he was gonehe was goin' gunnin'.

I've other matters first to speak to ye about; and this little girl's goin' hame, ye say.

And now will I likewise with my sweet Money Go hunt abroad for some good company.

"I'm sick of this," said he, "I'm goin' seal-hunting.

"Don't like the idee o' goin' int' the British navy," said he.