'Hum usko jans deydea oos wukt,' that is, 'I gave the brute its life that time, but,' he continued, 'had I had an English gun like this, your honour, I would have blown the soor (Anglice, pig) to hell.'

Ours, pup; yours and mine: didn't you help to catch him, eh, pup?" Crusoe acknowledged the fact with a wag and a playful "bow-wowwow-oo-ow!" and followed his master to the place where the horse had been picketed.

[Footnote mm: perishing or dying] [Footnote nn: snow] [Footnote oo: depth or middle.]

" "Growwoo-oo-wow," grumbled Gringo.

" "Grow-grow-wow-oo-umph," was the answer.

"Yes, Sir." "Most froz'n, aren't you?" "O-oo-oo, that I be, Sir." Here a very bright idea struck Chip, and he inquired, "Is this all that's coming?" "Boo-hoo.

"Yes, Sir." "Most froz'n, aren't you?" "O-oo-oo, that I be, Sir." Here a very bright idea struck Chip, and he inquired, "Is this all that's coming?" "Boo-hoo.

Seem's if I could hear her say, In the cunnin' baby way That she had: "Say 'dood-night' to Jimmie, do, 'Coz if 'oo fordetted to He'd feel bad.

The "philosophy of Thomas" is inscrutable, but no doubt he derives satisfaction from comparisons: If we're standin' in two foot o' water, you see Quite likely the Boches are standin' in three; An' though the keen frost may be ticklin' our toes, 'Oo doubts that the Boches' 'ole bodies is froze?

What they are, or ought to be, has therefore been treated as a trifling question: and, what is still more surprising, several authors of spelling-books make no mention at all of them; while others, here at the very threshold of instruction, teach falselygiving "he" for Aitch, "er" for Ar, "oo" or "uu" for Double-u, "ye" for Wy, and writing almost all the rest improperly.

He never named the English letters rightly; long ago discarded the term Double-u; and is not yet tired of his experiment with "oo;" but thinks still to make the vowel sound of this letter its name.

Suppose he should take it into his head to follow Dr. Webster's books, and to say, "Oo, he, ye, hwi;" who, but these doctors, would imagine, that such spelling was supported either by "the realities of nature," or by the authority of custom?

4.Some teach that w and y are always vowels: conceiving the former to be equivalent to oo, and the latter to i or e. Dr. Lowth says, "Y is always a vowel," and "W is either a vowel or a diphthong.

But oo or the sound of e, requires an, and not a; as, an eel, an oozy bog.

He says, "By pronouncing in a very deliberate and perfectly natural manner, the letter y, (which is a diphthong,) the unpractised student will perceive, that the sound produced, is compound; being formed, at its opening, of the obscure sound of oo as heard in oo-ze, which sound rapidly slides into that of i, and then advances to that of ee as heard in e-ve, and on which it gradually passes off into silence.

He says, "By pronouncing in a very deliberate and perfectly natural manner, the letter y, (which is a diphthong,) the unpractised student will perceive, that the sound produced, is compound; being formed, at its opening, of the obscure sound of oo as heard in oo-ze, which sound rapidly slides into that of i, and then advances to that of ee as heard in e-ve, and on which it gradually passes off into silence.

He delights in protracting its "guttural murmur;" perhaps, in assuming its name for its sound; and, having proved, that "consonants are capable of forming syllables," finds no difficulty in mouthing this little monosyllable by into b-oo-i-ee!

I know not whether I can make you understand it, but I will tr-oo-i-ee."

Let us note them as plainly as possible: eigh, ~a, ah, awe, =eh, ~e, eye, ~i, oh, ~o, oo, yew, ~u, û.

The OO-la-la hat, by Gracia Stayton, pseud.

SEE Harbour, J. L. The OO-la-la hat.

(b) 'Oose queenie-mouse was 'oo?

When you come to the village of Oos, you get off the train and take a little train which is waiting on a siding, and in less than five minutes, before you have time to sit down, in fact, you are at Baden, at the entrance of the Black Forest, and find it beautiful.

Clean, health-giving Baden-Baden, in the Valley of the Oos, with its beauty and its pure air, was holding out her arms to all the disease and filth that degenerate riches produce.

During two mortal weeks we stayed at Baden-Baden, taking the baths, improving our German and driving through the Black Forest and the Oos Valley to the green hills beyond.