She don't like to be left alone for a minit, mother don't, so it's a bit of a puzzle to keep up with society.

My head was that tight inside I felt if I didn't git out that minit somethin' would snap.

The minit them cavalry sneaks left us back thar, I made up my mind I'd skip Newmarket.

It's easy done, an' so it's goan tew stan till the last minit.'

I bin workin' at these 'ere beds for months, and here they are spilt in a minit; but I tell ee

I'dI'd lick yer, I would, the minit I got yer out on the street; but," with a disgusted sigh, "I'm a girl, and I carn't. 'Tain't 'spectable for girls, Tim says, an' I mus'n't.

Why there's risin' two thousand dollars due on this 'ere farm, and if the deacon don't scratch for it and pay up squar to the minit, old Squire Norcross'll foreclose on him.

Jest wait a minit and I'll hitch up and take ye over.

Her colour rose though, higher than before, when a pot-boy, with a shock of red hair, and his shirt-sleeves rolled up to his shoulders, thus accosted her "You're just in time, miss; he'd 'a been off in a minit, but old Batters, he come in just now, and your young man stopped to take his share of another half-quartern.

But, mind, before I do, Mam shall promise, sartin sure, to let you go by half-past twelve o'clock, and not a minit later.

When Joanne told him no one had ever thought he'd killed his father, FitzHugh sat leanin' against the saddles for a minit so white an' still I thought he 'ad died with his eyes open.

"Och Ma'am, dear, don't mintion itsure it's that makes me so down in the mouth, this very minit.

,' says he, 'my masther is the Prence Ragin.''Blur an' ouns,' says I; 'tell his honour I'll be wid him in the twinklin' ov a bedpost, the minit I take my face from behind my beard, an' get on my clane flax; but stop a bit,' says I; 'where does the masther live?''Down at Carltown Palace,' says he; 'so make yourself dacent, an' be off wid yourself afther me.'

"Up I gets, an' away I goes, the instant minit I put on my duds, down to Carltown Palace.

Why, I'd made a hole in my nose in half a minit, if somebody'd only give me a gold ring to put through it!" "Who bored your ears, Sylvia?" said I at length.

" "In a minit, Ma'am.

COTTER Wait a minit!

I could tell 'twas him the very minit she began, God bless him.

"Honey, you ought to be asleep dis werry minit; look lak folks been a-worr'in' you.

"I'd like to see you jest a minit, Frank," said Lee, as the former was about to move away.

For here he's like to come any minit.

"Just a minit, Miss," he expostulated, half shamedly, half brusquely, "ye don't onderstand me.

"So take a seat a minit, won't ye?"

"A minit ago," he said, mysteriously closing the door behind Renshaw, "I heard a voice in the passage, and goin' out, who should I see agin but that darned furrin nigger ez I told yer 'bout, kinder hidin' in the dark, his eyes shinin' like a catamount.

Yistherday at this blessed minit 'twas but tin o'clock