The sun under which we draw our breath, the soil we tottle over, in childhood, the air we breathe, the objects that earliest attract our attention, the whole system of things with which our youth is surrounded, impress firmly upon us ideas and sentiments which cling to us to our latest breath, and modify all our views.

Then there are heaps, as we Southerners say, of droll little children running about, some of them quite nicely dressed, with no servant to take care of them; and yesterday, on the rocks that look out upon the ocean, I met a little boy who could scarcely walk tottling along beside one but little older, as independent and happy as if he might not at any time fall and hit his little white head against one of the sharp stones.

Then the lads and the lasses begin to tottle, But what would they do without this bottle?

She did not tottle up her milk-scores on the bastard-title.

" Then he backed a little, took a new direction, found shallower water, and tottled onward to victory.

When Josiah wuz taxed with these fearful expenses (they writ it in letters to him) his plan tottled ready to fall.