"'Bob,' he ses, 'go and tell my pore missis that I'm alive,' he ses; 'break it to 'er gentle.'

"'You go and fetch 'im,' ses my missis.

You stole that ribbon,' 'Missis, I declare I didn't.

'I didn't know you 'ad brought your missis up with you this trip.' "'Evening, Bill,' he ses, very peaceful.

When pore old Bill went they 'ad a Friendly Lead at the 'King's Head' and got his missis pretty nearly seventeen pounds.

We used to ask old missis how old we was.

She replied, 'O, missis, my heart too full of joy to sleep.

As I passed them, she exclaimed, 'Missis!'

she wouldn't 'ave 'im if he'd got fifty million a year, the five of 'em 'eld my missis while she went off.

Why, like as not you'll be having a missis and young ones of your own there some day.

we hear so, missis, and we not know what to do.

"I won't 'ave it, that's all; and if you knew my missis you'd know without any telling.

And I promised my missis to tell her what he is like!

"I've seed my young missis whip my mother.

Chloe leaned her head on her mistress's shoulder, and sobbed out, 'Oh, missis, 'scuse me, my heart's brokedat's all.'

She said something about a swing, and in less than five minutes head-man Frank had erected it for her, and a dozen young slaves were ready to swing little 'missis.' , think of learning to rule despotically your fellow creatures before the first lesson of self-government has been well spelt over!

Think it's high time we took the missis home?" Columbus snuffled into his hand, and wagged himself from the tail upwards.

It's the way I treat my missis nowadays, and it pays; in the old days I used to waste my breath answering 'er back.

"So the little slip of a maid ran back, and this time 'twas "'Missis, the judge has done; an' now they're considerin' about Master Willie.'

"My people are gathering to welcome their new missis.

"'Oh, missis' she begins.

"I bet young missis dere kin 'splain it herse'f.

The ecstacy of the blacksmith on discovering the 'right missis' at last was very funny, and was expressed with such extraordinary grimaces, contortions, and gesticulations, that I thought I should have died of laughing at this rapturous identification of my most melancholy relation to the poor fellow.

If they had 'elped my missis outside it would be a easier dr

"So he waited two er th'ee days, an' sho' nuff long come Dasdy one mornin,' comin' over to Mars Dugal's fer ter fetch some things fer her missis.