" "Ain't you taking the car?" "No, dearie," said Miss Hassiebrock, stepping down to cross the street; "you take it, but not for keeps.

"Gawd bless you, dearie; it's a big night's work!"

Never you mind the tribulations you can't help, dearie.

Let us see, dearie.

At e'en, in the gloaming, nae swankies are roaming 'Bout stacks wi' the lasses at bogle to play; But ilk ane sits eerie, lamenting her dearie The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.

ANONYMOUS ABSENCE When I think on the happy days I spent wi' you, my dearie; And now what lands between us lie, How can I be but eerie! How slow ye move, ye heavy hours, As ye were wae and weary!

It was na sae ye glinted by When I was wi' my dearie.

" "Yes, you will, dearie," said the old woman.

Then: "Yes, dearie," she said softly.

[Illustration: "DEARIE ME, NOW, I SHOULDN'T HA' THOUGHT THEY GIVES YOU ENOUGH MONEY IN THE ARMY TO FILL ALL THEM THERE LITTLE PURSES.

"Didn't I say so, dearie?" said old Mrs. Talbot, whom, curiously, love made blind instead of prophet-sighted.

"What's your hurry, dearie?"

As true as death, before all the crowd of folk, he put his arm round her waist and called her his sweetheart, and love, and dearie, and darling, and everything that is fine.

Dearie me!"

Then she brought them straight to the bed, and stooping down gave me the only kiss with which she has honored meher show kiss, I call itsaying, 'My darling' (how soft she said it, too, with a little trilling cadence upon the sweet old word!)'My darling, you are not to speak, or even look, save this once: now I must cover up my dearie's eyes;' and she laid her cool hand over my eyes and held it there while they stayed.

"Come, dearie, eat your supper.

"Oh, dearie me, dearie me!

"Oh, dearie me, dearie me!

It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.

You seem to think" "Oh, dearie, I don't think at all, I just know.

Constance strove with tender energy for place and voice: "Nan, dearie, Nan!

I painted a flowery glen in the Tyrol (dearie me, but thae flowers cost me a fortune in blue paint), and it was coft for the Chantry Bequest, and hoo daur you talk to me?"

When the matter is decided, as the guillotining is going on, Ellen and I sit listening to the axe thuds and the death squaks, while she wrings her hands, saying: "O dearie me!

'It's yours, dearie, but ye'll gi'e it to Macgreegor when the time comes for him toto gang.

Dot dearie, I'm sort of glad you called him Luke.