"It was a gay notion to send you brats away until the ceremony was over.

How vain, silly and mad it is to beget brats!

We turned back to the place, and there we found "In lowly shed, and mean attire, A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name, Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame.

"Heaven bless us," he exclaims in reply, "are they greater benefactors of mankind who bring into the world two or three evilly-squalling brats, or those who, to the best of their power, keep a beneficent eye on the lives, and habits, and tendencies of all mankind?

I would like to have caught the brat taking any such liberties with those innocent, humorous, unfathomable eyes of hers!

Not only the spiteful mother that conceiveth such spurious brats, but the midwife that helpeth to bring them forth, the nurse that feedeth them, the guardian that traineth them up to maturity, and setteth them forth to live in the world; as they do really contribute to their subsistence, so deservedly they partake in the blame due to them, and must be responsible for the mischief they do.

" "Confound those brats, they seem always to be putting a spike in our schemes!"

"Yes!" ejaculated the brat, to the infinite entertainment of the spectators, none of whom appeared to discover the slightest impropriety in the proceeding.

He, being crop sick of his bachelor life, Resolved, in his old days, to look for a wife (Nota beneThank Heaven, I'm not married): He envied his neighbours their curly-poled brats, (All swarming, as if in a village of Pats,) And sighed that so long he had tarried.

you have the audacity to lecture mea wretched brat like you?

"Oh, let the brat alone, and let's get to our grub!" said Potts, with an extreme nervous irritation.

I love her, and I love you, you pitiful, ignorant brat.

You know you do it to provoke me, you little brat; now, sit properly, sir; I do desire you to sit properly.

I wanted to restore the abominable brat, for I could not bear the thought of killing it, it was so like a human creature; but before I could do this, several shots had been fired by my companions at the hideous monster, which caused him once more to take to his heels, but turning oft as he fled, he made threatening gestures at me.

I've heard her saying, 'My brat!' and syne birsing him closer to her, as though her shame just made him mair to her.

When the Nawab, Shumsh-ud-deen, was hung at Delhi for hiring a sowar to assassinate Mr. Fraser, the British Commissioner, the country population round about were seized with the news as with the coming of a dragon or a destroying army; and the British Lion was the Bogy, the Black Douglas, in whose name poor ryots' wives scared refractory brats into trembling obedience.

"Can he also tell me if he has seen a little brat who runs around in the city to-night?

But for the true Anglo-Indian type of brat, at all points a complete "torn-down," "dislikeable and rod-worthy," as Mrs. Mackenzie describes it, there is nothing among nursery nuisances comparable to the Civil-Service child of eight or ten years, whose father, a "Company's Bad Bargain," in the Mint, or the Supreme Court, or the Marine Office, draws per mensem enough to set his brat up in the usual servile surroundings of such small despots.

* Behold these lusty miners all Fettered fast in domestic thrall, Scrubbing, rubbing, baking bread, Busy with scissors and needle and thread, Spreading the brats their bread and jam, Trundling them out in the morning pram, Washing their pinafores clean and white And tucking them up in their cots at night.

180 Let Pride conceive, and Folly propagate, The fashion still adopts the spurious brat: Nothing so strange that fashion cannot tame; By this, dishonour ceases to be shame:

"Wouldn't you do better to stay at home and wash your brats?" said an indignant neighbour.