That is you, 'spose, seated on the turf, a leetle behind the pillar dedicated to Apollar; and you, blooming like a daffodilly in April, are waiting with great thirst, and not a little impatience, for my promised appearance, from the sign of the Hen and Chickens, with the cordials, and a few biscuits on a salverwhen, lo!

the orator brimmed his glass from the bottle and swallowed the contents with a dry eye"mind you, a roytious man, sech as ministers of de gospel and dere body-sarvants, can take a leetle for de weak stomach.

You don't choose a leetle of the mustachy left?" "No, nooff with it all.

"'They ain't up exactly,' says I, 'but it looked as if they were a leetle on the rise, and being as I had a lady to look out for, I thought I'd play safe.'

It takes time to find customers, even for a good thing like this here, and it's bein' a leetle out of the usual run will make it slower still.

"Cipherin' a leetle over thet air," said he, as he made a long scratch on the floor with his flint.

he re'lly doos: a leetle through his nose, maybe, but no more 'n Dr. Colton allers does,'n' I declare he appears to have abaout as much sense.

" Of course I was reglar staggered, but I pulls myself together, and I says, without not no hesitashun, "Jest a leetle under 30, your , for the Gent, and jest a leetle over 20 for the Lady, and then the Gent gits just about 10 years advantage, which I thinks as he's well entitled to."