"I'm goin' to tell ye noo about what I sid wi' my own een.

"I kep' looking at the picture-book, as before, listenin' every noo and then, but there was no sound, not a breath, that I could hear; an' I began whisperin' to the pictures and talkin' to myself to keep my heart up, for I was growin' feared in that big room.

"You've turned up a Jack!" "THE WOLD LOVE AND THE NOO" "Have ye heard the noos?" said Betty Tuffin, thrusting in her head at old Mrs. Haskell's open door.

Shall we drop a' that noo that peace has come again?

We maun not encourage those laddies tae tak' it tae easy the noo.

That's the thing I think of maist these daysthat it would be a sair thing and a tragic thing if the spirit that filled the world during the war should falter the noo.

Tak' your chance if it comesye'll no be losin' owt ye've got the noo if ye fail.

We'll hae ye on yer feet again in no time the noo, and ye can gie yer man a bonnier bairn next time!

But to these and sundry other interrogatories, the important hostess gave for answer, "Hoot, I hae nae time to haver the noo."

"The deaul will hev his ain noo," answered Dick, in his friend's ear.

Still, just to keep him dangling, she promises she wull, and she'll let him slip his arm aboot her, and kiss her noo and again.

Ye'll no fret ye mair the noo, Wull ye, sea?

They're partners the noo.

Oh, ayeI ken there'll be fine ladies wall be pointing their fingers at me the noo and wondering does Mrs. Lauder no have trouble aboot the maids!

They're quieter the noo.

'Weel, I'm rested noo,' he continued, 'an' it's time we was gettin' a move on.

I'll send them a picture postcard noo and then frae foreign parts.

Fritz wasn't doing much casual shelling the noo, though.

I'm asked ower and again to sing it the noo, so I'm thinking perhaps ye'll ken the yin

I've a song I'm singing the noo.

"Wot, retire jest when you're gettin' popler an' can't do no more 'arm an' I've sent off the 'ole brigade of scouts ter spread the noos, 'Jessop thirty, not out, an' 'arf the Colonel's winders napooed.'

We canna stand still the noo.

We've the future o' the world, that those laddies saved, to think o' the noo.

But there is an ugly ring to that word charity as too many use it the noo.

My agent had seen to that; he was glad enough to promise me all the London engagements I wanted noo that I'd broken the ice for masel'!