He said, "I ain't fat enough," but I told him not to mind, but just to look at that picture and he'd know how he looked as a boy scout.

"It's a good one, ain't it?"

See?" he shouted, all excited; "ain't I a good chopperain't I?"

Then I heard somebody say, "You're always suspicious, ain't you," and oh, I felt awful funny, because I knew it was Westy.

"I'll get stuck hard and fast in the consarned mud," he said, "if I ain't back and past this here Sleepy Hollow in forty minutesthat's what I will!" I hollered up to him that I'd row across to Jimmy's house and see if he was asleep.

"I ain't a-talking to you," Captain Savage shouted; "you other feller, scramble aboard and come up here!

"I ain't sayin' you're not a brisk lot, you youngsters, because you are, and no denyin'.

If I was somebody's son, you know, everybody would know mebut I aint, and yet, everybody is kind.

I say, 'Jim Pink, no nigger don' go off an' study fo' yeahs in college whut 'n he comes back an' kin throw some kin' uv a hoodoo over us fool niggers whut ain't got no brains.

The niggers around here ain't strong for you now; some say you're a hoodoo; some say this an' some that.

The fact is, it ain't a big enough place for a nigger of yore ability, Peter.

I said, 'How do, Mrs Wright it's cold, ain't it?'

Ain't he home?' says I. 'Yes', says she, 'he's home'.

Queer, ain't it? MRS PETERS: (examining the cage)

Tell her it ain't.

"A wunnerful fine crop," he said, "and thank the Lord, there ain't a spot o' disease in 'em."

Well, anyhow, it ain't your business.

"Hell, there ain't any reviewing stand," was the reply.

'He ain't too good to live,' put in Jake slowly; 'no youngster can beat him in play.'

'Ay, that I will, if it ain't fur off; my legs are that stiff and sore.

'I won't come no further, youngster; I ain't in a mind to-day to see company, but I'll be at the tea to-night.' 'Oh, Bouncer, do come!'

'Why ain't you at school?

Ouida ain't cultured, Wilkins, but she's damn' good reading.

I suppose that's why she ain't cultured, Wilkins.

Ain't that the richest" Carroll made a wry face.

"Aye, but to , and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot."

I can make the statue move indeed; aye, and descend from off the pedestal, and take you by the hand.

I canna shed tears but maybe anes or twice a-year, and I aye come to wet this turf with them, that the flowers may grow fair, and the grass may be green." "But what is the matter with you?" said Jeanie.

And I mind aye the drink o' milk ye gae me yon day, when I had been on Arthur's Seat for four-and-twenty hours, looking for the ship that somebody was sailing in.

And there, my babe, we'll live for aye."

Perhaps, with head and heels on fire, And like the very soul of evil, He's galloping away, away, And so will gallop on for aye, 335 The bane of all that dread the devil! I to the Muses have been bound These fourteen years, by strong indentures:

[R] At once bewildering mists around him close, And cold and hunger are his least of woes; The Demon of the snow with angry roar 400 Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.

Lean not on thy store of merits; know'st thou 'gainst thy name for aye What the Plastic Pen indited, on the Unbeginning Day?

"Oh, aye!" agreed Dalzell.

Aye, more than that.

It is all done with the consent, aye, and approval of man.

" "Whyoh Nannie!" "Aye,blush if ye will, my dark lady, but Mother Dibbin knows she's seen it in the fire, dreamed it in her dreams, and read it in the ink.

The path lies very dark afore ye, my lady,aye very dark it be, and full o' cares, and troubles, but there's the sun shining beyond,bright, and golden.

" "Aye, aye!"

" "Aye, aye!"

As for you, my dark-eyed lady, I say, by force you shall be wooed, and by force ye shall be wed, aye!

"Aye,I will that, Miss Anthea!" "Mr. Bellew, we can find room for you if you care to come with us?" "Thanks," said he, shaking his head, "but I rather think I'll stay here, anderhelp Adam totolook after things, if you don't mind.

If the gentleman will put down some substantial deposit now" "Aye, for sure!" nodded Adam, stepping forward; and, unbuttoning a capacious pocket he drew out a handful of bank-notes, "shall I gi'e ye a hundred pound,or will fifty be enough?" "Why," said the Auctioneer, rubbing his hands as he eyed the fistful of bank-notes, "ten pound will be all that is necessary, sir,just to ensure good faith, you understand.

"Aye, women are clever nowadays, no doubtthey'd show their grandmothers how to suck eggs in a good many new fashions.

" "Aye!" said Allerdyke.

"Aye, and more than queer, my lad.

"Aye, just so!"

" "Aye, but only so far as we know," said Allerdyke.

"I got those two reports for youshall I tell you about them now?" "Aye, for sure," replied Allerdyke.

With the help of COCKER and common industry, he may become a respectable Scrivener: but it is not all the ZEPHYRS, and AURORAS, and CORYDONS, and THYRSIS's; aye, nor his "junketing Queen MAB" and "drudging Goblins," that will ever make him a Poet.