But Ive writ more'n I expected when I sot down.

ive epithet at him.

Ive to much griefe already.

Good sir, desist The agravation of your sad report; [Weepe Ive to much greife already.

Instead of joining the panguingui where the stake is a half peso, I Ve gone only where it's a half real, enduring the bad smells and the dirty cards.

Thys that Ive kepte as a stronge cordyall Agaynst your vyllanyes.

"Deer Thee its rainin like blaises and I cant get out since I came heer Ive had bully times

"Thee weve got a barn and theres lots of ha on 2 high plaises were we can clime up there arnt no steps nor lader and we hav to clime up poles its bully Thee theres four cats heer and one lets me nuss her the others is all wild and run under the barn we can hunt them wild ones Ive got 2 long poles to poke under the barn but I wont hunt the cats till you come.

Old age and hard sarvice, Neb, has made me veer cable to the better end.

Ive come to pack up a few things of mine that you have here.

Ive left nearly all my cash in the pocket of another waistcoat.

But Ive noticed that she shuts up and gets anxious when he comes into the room; and he has his own way in everything.

Ive just slept it off; and I was coming down for some more.

"I spose Ive got to go," said Mrs. Myers, plaintively.

R ive R 3.

Of words ending in ive, Walker exhibits four hundred and fiftyexactly the same number that he spells with ic.

And Horne Tooke, who derives ive from the Latin ivus, (q. d. vis,) and ic from the Greek

25.In Dr. Webster's "Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Peeces," published in 1790, we find, among other equally ingenious improvements of our orthography, a general omission of the final e in all words ending in ive, or rather of all words ending in ve, preceded by a short vowel; as, "primitiv, derivativ, extensiv, positiv, deserv, twelv, proov, luv, hav, giv, liv."

Of those in ive, as deceptive, there are about 400.

Dissyllables are seldom compared if they terminate in full, less, ing, ous, ed, id, at, ent, ain, or ive.

2. By the adding of ive or ory: (sometimes with a change of some of the final letters:) as, elect, elective; interrogate, interrogative, interrogatory; defend, defensive; defame, defamatory; explain, explanatory.

ive thousand pounds of Joy Loan if the Government will get him a case of whisky.

was the first English monarch who assumed the title of king of Ireland; and his daughter Mary set about the conquest of the country in earnest, by reducing the countries of Ive Faily and Leix, which were formed into the King's and Queen's Counties, so called in compliment to the queen, and her husband, Philip of Spain.

"Ive told her time and agin it wuzn't your fault.