A mother's bll-ess-ings go with you," gurgled the lady, who was not, it must be confessed, a woman of strong moral character.

How are mother and father and Esther?" "Mother and Ess are well, and father better.

"Come, Ess," said Charles, coaxingly, "tell me what this is about you and Mr. Walters.

"There must be something, Ess, or you wouldn't have blushed up so when Cad was about to speak of it.

Come," said he, kissing her, "tell me, now, like a dear old Ess as you are.

"Don't laugh, Ess; but tell medo you really intend to refuse him?"

Dear Old Ess again.

Yes, that is "dear old Ess," as Charlie calls her yet, though why he will persist in applying the adjective we are at a loss to determine.

"Come here, dear old Ess, and help me to convince this deluded girl of the preposterous manner in which she is conducting herself.

Walters and dear old Ess reared a fine family; and the brown baby and her sister took numberless premiums at school, to the infinite delight of their parents.

The scholar should say, "Dee I, de; Vee I Ess, viz, de-viz; I, de-viz-e; Bee I Ell, bil, de-viz-e-bil; I, de-viz-e-bil-e; Tee Wy, te, de-viz-e-bil-e-te."

pee cue ar ess tee you voe double u eks wi zed.

Masculine nouns make regular feminines, when their termination is changed to ess: as, hunter, huntress; prince, princess; lion, lioness.

11.For feminine nouns formed by inflection, the regular termination is ess; but the manner in which this ending is applied to the original or masculine noun, is not uniform: 1.

Better, use the names, Ess and Ex, and pluralize thus: "the Esses; the Exes.

Since the days of these critics still more has been done towards the restoration of the ed, in orthography, though not in sound; but, even at this present time, our poets not unfrequently write, est for essed or ess'd, in forming the preterits or participles of verbs that end in the syllable ess.

our being's end and aim!" Pope, Ess.

" Pope's Ess., iii, 233.

A faint far gnat-voice says, "Is that Zed Ess?" "No," I shout.

ess of Birkenhead (E); 26Feb62; R291685. SMITH, EMMA PETERS.

VAN ESS, DOROTHY.

SEE VAN ESS, JOHN.

VAN ESS, JOHN.

Dorothy Van Ess (W); 13Nov70; R494680. VAN KEUREN, FLOYD.

Heads, I order an assortment of vines and fig trees, go back to the Jornado and become a cattle-king, I proceed to New-York-on-the-Hudson, by the Ess-Pee at 3:15 this A.M. presently, and arouse that somnolent city from its Rip Van Winkle.