"Repeat your aves and go to sleep, Bella Gelsomina," concluded the sub-keeper, "for the fishermen have left off shouting to say their prayers.

"'We've all got a better chance than wot you 'ave, Bob,' ses little Dicky Weed the tailor.

"You see, they made it up arterwards, and then they both made me promise not to tell you, and if you come, they'll know I 'ave.

At last he told Henery Walker that 'e was going to Wickham to see 'is lawyer about it, and arter Smith the landlord 'ad read the paper to Henery and explained 'ow he'd very likely 'ave to pay more than the whole ten pounds then, 'e gave Bob his arf and said he never wanted to see 'im again as long as he lived.

" "Talkin' o' noos, sir," observed Mr. Gow with sudden interest, "'ave you heard tell about the back o' Canvey Island bein' blown up yesterday mornin'?" "Blown up!"

"P'r'aps we'd better let Sam's nevy 'ave 'er.

Now the only question as worrits me, and as I'm a-axin' of myself constant is,what will Miss Anthea 'ave to say about it?"

Pierre muttered an ave in thankfulness that the long halt was ended.

Solers quilibet artifex instrumenta sua diligentissime curat, penicellos pictor; malleos incudesque faber ferrarius; miles equos, arma venator, auceps aves, et canes, Cytharam Cytharaedus, &c. soli musarum mystae tam negligentes sunt, ut instrumentum illud quo mundum universum metiri solent, spiritum scilicet, penitus negligere videantur.

But I had not heard that it was a Benedictine custom to rehearse aves in tree-tops.

She said ''ave,' a weakness happily unshared by her daughter.

The consequence are that we smash his shop for him an' 'e 'ave to make a noo-start with a Creole partner's money an' put 'is sto' in charge of Creole'!

Any man in t' Daale thot speaaks woon word agen my wife 'e s'all 'ave 'is nack wroong.

" "What wi's restin' so bad o' neets, an' th' gettin' up an' down to him, an' feedin' him, an' shiftin' himhe's that 'eavy I cannot stir him mysel'I 'ave to wait till th' lads comes back fro' workeh, it's weary work!

Yer mus see as Arthur is rapped up, an Edie's eyes ull 'ave to be seen to now an agen.

It is much the same here, caro Vito Viti, though our mariners do burn so many lamps and offer up so many aves.

People come to hear me from all partsold and youngrich and poorand the Apostles that don't come early 'ave to stand outside and catch the crumbs I throw 'em through the winders.

"Verily, Piero, thy comings and goings have been, of late, so frequent that one learns the wisdom of not mourning over-much when thou dost crave an ave at the shrine of San Nicolò.