I was laith to mak' awa' wi' the auld dowg, his like wasna atween this and Thornhillbut, 'deed, sir, I could do naething else."

And there a season atween June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne carèd even for play.

Hatchet hasn't been dug up, atween us bury him so deep can't find him in ten, two, six year.

"Ye're laird here, and we've no the time, nor the grace, to study and understand the orthodoxy and heterodoxy of the quarrel atween the House of Hanover and the houses of these Americans; so, while we a'stand up for the house and household of our old maister, the Lord will smile on our efforts, and lead us to victory.

But atween the twa, I'd sooner think it was the auld mon was a-tellin' o' the lee.

" "Then we'll find 'im atween here an' there.

From his leisurely first appearance in the story, "a huge mastiff, sauntering down the middle of the causeway, as if with his hands in his pockets," to the unanswerable last question"His teeth and his friends gone, why should he keep the peace, and be civil?"we follow Rab's pathetic career with the growing conviction that "his like was na atween this and Thornhill," however distant Thornhill may have been.

" "Good boy or not, he 's got to keep his tongue atween his teeth," growled the second newcomer, who had not yet spoken, glaring fiercely at Joe.

In regard of not huntin' there's a many seasons, askin' your pardon, atween you and me, and I should be sorry to think as I wasn't goin' huntin', ay, twenty years from now!

But her words was theseI'm tellin' you her werry wordsIf you can make sure of seeing Mr. Ryfe, says she,that's you, Mr. Thomas,any time afore to-night, says she, tell him, as I must have a word with him in priwate atween him and me this werry evening, or it would have been better for both of us, poor things, says she, if we'd 'a never been born!"

" "It may be there's been ill-blood a long time atween 'em, but the missionary couldn't a done nothin' to give the rapscallion cause to run off with his wife, 'less he'd run off with this hunter's old woman before, and the hunter was paying him for it.

" "Dat true, sah, and so Chloe say; but dere great difference, Masser Mile, atween Clawbonny and a ship.

Nebber has been, and never shall be uner atween 'em.

The Lord made a nigger an unrational animal; and an experienced seaman, who has doubled both Capes, and made all the head-lands atween Fundy and Horn, has no right to waste his breath in teaching any of the breed!

But what is this I see hereaway, atween the backstay and the vang?

"There's the affair of slipping off the wreck of the smuggler has never been properly settled atween us, neither; and many other small services of like nature, for which, d'ye see, I'll just thank you, while there is opportunity; for no one can say whether we shall ever be borne again on the same ship's books.

Lord atween us and harm!

"Atween his downy wings be furnished, there.

"And there a season atween June and May.

Afore for before, atween for between, traverse for across, thorough for through, and withal for with, are obsolete.

They have occasionally employed certain prepositions for which, perhaps, it would not be easy to cite prosaic authority; as, adown, aloft, aloof, anear, aneath, askant, aslant, aslope, atween, atwixt, besouth, traverse, thorough, sans.

We got quite a chatting arterwards in the Libery, of course I don't mean to say as I forgot for a moment the strornary difference atween us, but he had werry ewidently been werry much struck by the lovely Bridesmade, for he says, "Mr. ROBERT," says he, "what's about the rite time for a man to marry?

Now that makes two to one, and we're askin' you as a old-timer if we're goin' to let them fellas ride north a-tellin' every hay-tosser atween here and Stacey that we're a bunch of jays?" "Oh, shucks!" was all Bud had to say.

When, behold!a sudden sandquakeand atween the earth and moon Rose a mighty Host of Shadows, as from out some dim lagoon; Then our coursers gasped with terror, and a thrill shook every man, And the cry was "Allah Akbar!'tis the Spectre-Caravan!"

He's one ob dem young wite sort wat lubs de card-table, an' don't scriminate atween ole an' young folks.