Have you ever heard any story concerning their origin?" "Of coorse, miss.

" "Where did you come from?" "The ould counthry, ov coorse, sur.

He that hathe ech daye to his backe Chandge of gaye suites, whylst wee alacke Have but one coate, that coorse and ould, Yet it defends us from the could; As warme too in an equll eye As they in all theere purple dye; 'Mongst

" "Of coorse ye wos, Dame Varley, and I've comed here a purpis to tell ye.

coorse o' time to think little o' the blissin's he's used to.

He missed the bee, of coorse, 'cause it wos a flyin' shot, he said, but he sent the whole charge right into Martin's backMartin was my comrade's name.

the Rosicrucian Philosophism, just perfectly yelegant and gracefu', and as gude, in their way, as onything o' my ain about fairies, either in the Queen's Wake or Queen Hynde,His Louisa to Abelard is, as I said before, coorse in the subject-matter, but, O sirs! powerfu' and pathetic in executionand sic a perfect spate o' versification!

But tell me, Buzzby, do you think they ever will come back?" "Why, ma'am, in coorse I do," replied Buzzby, vehemently; "for why, if they don't, they're the first that ever, went out

"Ov coorse he does.

" "Ov coorse not," replied O'Riley, nodding his head approvingly as he lighted his pipe; "that's my mind intirelyin all cases o' danger, when ye don't need to be afeard, you needn't much care.

"In coorse you may," answered Tom Green, giving the lad a push that upset him in the snow.

But, not bein' a fly, in coorse I can't.

"What is't all about?" "About gammon, of coorse," retorted Davie.

Av coorse ye knowed it," cried O'Riley energetically.

Keep your een well doon the coorse, man.

I heard him strike, and I looked awa' doon the coorse, as he had bid me do.

So, o' coorse, there were some Scots in that audience at Birkenhead.

Of coorse ye let him have itand told him not to think of it as a loan, syne he was in such trouble?" "WellI would have, of course, if I'd had it," he'll say, changing color a wee bit.

Of coorse there'll be cases where women wall be thinking it a fine thing to stay at work and support themselves.

Coorse 'e wanted yo.

I can't begin to go into details, but one thing was hearing German spoken everywhere in the street: not the German of Germany, but the Pennsylvania German, with its broad vowels and broken-down grammatical forms, and its English vocables and interjections, which you caught in the sentences which came to you, like av coorse, and yes and no for ja and nein.

But plaze yerself, ma'am, of coorse.

' 'Of coorse yer do.

But we'll 'ave one try if we can't 'it on somethin as ull show 'ow the thief got inwith your leave, of coorse.'

As, for example, a betheral of one of the large churches in Glasgow, criticising the sermon of a minister from the country who had been preaching in the city church, characterised it as "gude coorse country wark."