" "Don't bother me!"

A sort of general relaxation of formality, due to the waning of the season, and to people being too busy to bother, or already in thought away, seemed to give a greater freedom.

Don't bother to wait till I get in.

"You go in 'tother room an' don't bother Debbie an' she'll bring you in the prettiest breakfast you ever did see.

"I hate to bother you, miss," said the black cook, approaching her mistress the next morningBillie, by the way, was busily dusting the living-room with a very becoming dust cap perched on top of her pretty hair, "but this is mah day out.

"You will probably only get under my feet and bother me to death, but I suppose I'll have to humor you.

"We'll manufacture a brand new ghost if you say so, but it may take time" "Goodness, you needn't bother," said Violet, going over to the wrecked machine and regarding it wonderingly.

"It's awfully nice of Miss Beggs to tell me not to bother about it, but the fact is that I rebroke the statue, whether it was broken before or not.

If you come along, I needn't bother about her.

She didn't put me wise and my business was not to bother her.

"I had some bother to get a captain," he said.

"That hulk is going to bother us before very long.

" "Go and find James, and ask him to step here," commanded the mistress, "and then guard the opening in the hedge, and see that none of my nieces appear to bother him.

"Don't bother Uncle John, Daddy," she said.

"New York is good enough for anybody, even in winter; and now that you're in society, Patsy" "Oh, bother society!

" "And, after all," said Patsy, "there are the sunshine and roses at the end of the journey, and they ought to make up for any amount of bother in getting there.

"You're not worth all this bother," said Mr. Merrick to the humbled Wampus, when the final settlement had been made, "but chauffeurs are scarce in Albuquerque and I can't be delayed.

"Why," he said, with a forced smile, "I didn't think you'd bother to give the matter a thought.

None of these things bother the body because it is not aware of anything.

Don't be silly and think you'll try To bother the colleges, when you die, With codicil this, and codicil that, That Knowledge may starve while Law grows fat; For there never was pitcher that wouldn't spill, And there's always a flaw in a donkey's will!

"Don't bother me!

"Look here, Joyce," I said, "we won't just bother about anything for the rest of the day.

It was not thick enough, however, to bother me in any way, and under a jib and mainsail the Betty swished along at such a satisfactory pace that I was in sight of Gravesend Reach before either the light or the tide had time to fail me.

"I needn't bother you now with all the details of how I actually ran them to earth.

"Don't bother about that tonight, Gow," I said.