An' mebbe he would have tew, Angy," a bit ruefully, "ef yew'd 'a' let me advertise a leetle sooner.

Friendstrust once more your Grand Old Fella, Andwait a leetle longer!

"Bent in at the p'int a leetle?" "Yes."

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

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.

He's got quite a leetle laid by, I understand, an' a tidy story-an'-a-half house, an' front stoop, an', by golly, can't he cook!

"Mother used t' say 'at the frost wus only the breath o' angels, an' when it melted it gin us a leetle o' the air o' heaven.

"Perhaps we might have lived a leetle more economically, but I don't think we've been extravagant.

o' this quilt a leetle further under my foot, won't you?

Rube Swan was second tenor, and his pipes was kinder cracked, But Rube made up in loudness what in tune he might have lacked; But 'twas a leetle cur'us, though, for p'r'aps his voice would balk, And when he'd fetch a high note give a most outrageous squawk;