They've got cushions with buckskin fringepresents from Dearie and Sweetie, I suppose, and they've got a cedar chest with brass hinges.

"Ain't that just a sweetie?

love, [person who is a favorite (terms of address)], dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey^, moppet, princess; sweetheart, sweetie &c (love) 897.

He had learned that for such things the old man could be coaxed to do almost anything, and now he held them out, and said: "Now, Souwanas, as all the presents have been passed around, I have got some fine sweeties for you, but we must have a first-class Nanahboozhoo story for them.

"And as it is to be for sweeties let us have a nice sweet story of Nanahboozhoo this time.

" How many boys and girls are there in this kingdom to whom the word coconut connotes an ingredient which goes to the making of a very toothsome sweetie?

"Oh, Patrick, you are such a sweetie.

What a sweetie.

Patrick is a sweetie.

THE FABLE OF WHY SWEETIE FLEW THE TRACK

[Illustration: SWEETIE] The Gist of his heart-to-heart Talk was that any Husband could stop Rough House Proceedings and shoot all kinds of Sweetness and Light into the sassiest Mooch a Wife ever got on to herself, if only he would refuse to Quarrel with her, receive her Flings without a Show of Wrath, and get up every Morning ready to Plug for a Renaissance of their Early Love.

While it is burning, the father of the family, assisted by his wife and children, sings Christmas carols; and when he has finished, he tells the smallest children to go into a corner of the room and pray God that the log may give them sweeties.

Ye deserve a sweetie.'

Eat yer sweeties an' dinna talk nonsense.

Ha'e a sweetie?

'What made ye stan' me a slider, an' a champion tea, an' they nice sweeties, an' a best sate in a pictur hoosewhen ye wasna extra keen on ma comp'ny?' 'Dear knows.

O, sweetie, wock-a-bye b'o', Better 'n tandy er infalid's food Wock-a-bye, sistuh's own b'over.

Zhen hush-a-bye O, sweetie, wock-a-bye b'o', Wock-a-bye, sistuh's own b'over.