The residents over the narrow way, who live in a three-story house, originally of much pretension, but from whose front door hard times have removed almost all vestiges of paint, will tell you: "Yass, de 'ouse is in'abit; 'tis live in.

"I was glad, yass, to kedge you," she said, as they mounted the front, outdoor stair; following her speech with a slight, unmusical laugh, and fanning herself with unconscious fury.

He slowly said: "Is dad possib', Madame Delphine?" "Yass," she replied, at first without lifting her eyes; and then again, "Yass," looking full upon him through her tears, "yaas, 'tis tru'.

He slowly said: "Is dad possib', Madame Delphine?" "Yass," she replied, at first without lifting her eyes; and then again, "Yass," looking full upon him through her tears, "yaas, 'tis tru'.

"Yass," said Charlie.

"Oh! yass," he said with an uncertain air.

The dumbfounded Colonel stared; Charlie went on: "Yass!

She'll break me in two years, yass.

" "Yass!" replied St.-Ange; "I am sure-sure.

Even in 1821, when Hume found the Yass Plains, almost on its bank, he makes no special mention of the river.

He died at Yass, near the scene of one of his early exploits.

If a Goulburn man has friends at Yass, he says they are up the country.

If a Yass man has friends at Young, he says they are up the country, and so on.

The coachman named the steamer to Constance: "Yass, 'm, de ole Genl al Quitman; dass her.

Will you get the minister?" "Why, Hilary, this is" "Yass!"

"Yass, 'm, done gone.

"Yass, 'm, but he make his promise to Miss Flo'a he won't tech de gun hisseff."

Go, do it!" "Yass, 'm! 'caze ef us kin keep 'em anywahs it'll be in de bes' place fo' to see de mos' sights!"

"Yass," he said.

"You know him?" "Oh! yass, sah; Mawse Honoré knows me, yass.

"You know him?" "Oh! yass, sah; Mawse Honoré knows me, yass.

"Yass, sah, dass me; I's Clemence.

"Folks comin' home a'ready, yass.

"Oh, ole Clemence kin talk proctah, yass!"