After that I did sell the big pan, an' then the new rockin' chair, an' so on, one thing after another, till all wint entirely, barrin' this I am sittin' on, an' they wint for next to nothin' too.

"Oh," said a young woman," the baillies did fetch uvverything away, barrin' the one sate, when we were livin' in Lancaster Street."

Faith, it's a pity to see the way she is,neither husband nor son, nor chick nor child, nor bit nor sup, barrin' what folk that has nothin' can give to her,the crayter."

Barrin' mistakes and crass-accidents, I'm sartain that Michael O'Hearn can make himself understood any day by Miss Maud Willoughby, an' niver a word said.

Well, it's little of them that passed between us, barrin' that the Injins was so near by, that it was whisper we did, and not a bit else.

Och! ye're a cr'ature, Nick; good at takin' scalps, but ye knows nothin' of graves; barrin' the quhantity ye've helped to fill.

Barrin' the brache of good fellieship, I could have placed yer own scalp wid the rest, as a p'ace-offering, to his Honour, the Missus and Miss Beuly" "Enough," interrupted Sir Robert Willoughby, with an authority of manner that Mike's military habits could not resist; "the man has repented, and is forgiven.

"Barrin' this," said O'Reilly.

The things out av me pockuts were lyin' on the flure by meall barrin' the key av me room.

your worship,' says I, 'it bates all the places ever I see, an' there's not the like ov id for fun in the wide world, barrin' Donnybrook Fair.''I never was at the fair,' says he, 'bud I'm tould there's plenty ov sport there for them that has money, an' is able to take their own part in a row.''Throth, Majesty,' says I, 'your honour may say that; an' iv your holiness 'ill come an' see us there, it's myself that 'ill give you a dhrop

He's a nice, good mannered little felly, and is the only person I ever see in the office when I went there, barrin' the boss himself.

"Barrin', o' course, the bill for to-night's board an' lodgin'.

When he was about the range most usually he was the quietest man I ever sat opposite to barrin' oneand that was a feller that went west with a bum heart at the chuck table!