" "Youyou ain't mad at mama?" "'Course not, dearie.

"'Course, child!

" When the falcons had been collected and recaged, and the bodies of the thernee consigned to a carriage brought up for the purpose by a subordinate who had watched the hunters' course, our birds, from which we had dismounted, were somewhat rested; and Ergimo informed me that another and more formidable, as well as more valuable, prey was thought to be in sight a few miles off.

Can't I paste those on while you talk to us?" "'Course you can, handy as you be with tools!

"O' course, it's no use dressing up and behaving wrong, and yesterday I bought a book what tells you all about behaviour.

"Why, it's a put-up job to rob you, o' course.

"O' course, there's a difficulty," he said, slowly, as Mr. Green finished a vivid picture of the joys of carpentering in Australia.

[Illustration: "Are you goin' to send Cap'n Nugent an invite for the wedding?"] "They'll 'ave to be asked, o' course," said Mr. Kybird, with an attempt at dignity, rendered necessary by a certain lightness in his friend's manner.

" "O' course she will," said Mr. Smith, soothingly.

'Course the roan pony next door started giggling, and then she 'ad to go and kiss 'im, and that settled 'is little game.

Oh, she read, an' sewed with them bright-colored silks an' worsteds; but 'course there wasn't no real work for her to do.

"Why, o' course," he ses, staring; "but you ain't been seeing it agin, 'ave you?" "I've not, and I don't want to," I ses.

"'And, o' course,' I ses, looking at 'im, 'there's some people 'asn't got either one or the other.'

O' course, if it should happen that we ain't finished" "Go on, Bennie!" said a delighted admirer.

"However it may be, Sylvia, who is an unspoiled girl of the frank and intellectual type, tall, and radiant with warm-hearted health, was kept much away at boarding-school for three years, and then went to college for a special two years' course in literature.

'Course, he told him he wanted him to stay around himnot to go off.

O' course they don't have t' really see snowbirds an' rabbits, but they just love t' hear about 'em, an' begin t' look ahead right away.

"O' course it will," retorted Selina.

O' course, she says, it will do when you've quite finished any private business you may 'av' in the upper part of the 'ouse!

'Course ever'body knowed de Yankees done it.

She accepted, reciting out of school to fit herself for her classes, earning enough by her teaching to pay her way, and taking the four years' course in two years.

An efficient faculty has caused a steady increase, until, in 1890, there were 101 students in the three years' course.

O' course, it was one keeper the less to look arter the game, and by-and-by the squire see that and took 'im off.

" "Wal, if you say so, I won't; but he oughter be larnt better mannershadn't he, Pete?" "'Course," was Pete's laconic answer.

He said 'course he did, the sea