No wonder she sang as she gave a last fond pat to the pretty dress and tucked a wandering little strand of hair into place.

Where once she made our hearts go pit-a-pat, To-day, alas, they only pity Patti.

How my heart then went pit-a-pat, to speak in the female dialect.

Oliver felt a pat on his arm.

Maggie, go and fetch a pat of butter out of the dairy.

He runs to fetch the stick or ball, Returns obedient to the call; Content and pleased if he but gains A single pat for all his pains.

So 'twas very music to me to hear a pat and splash of water dropping from the roof into a little pool upon the floor, and Elzevir made a cup out of my hat and gave a full drink of it that was icy-cool and more delicious than any smuggled wine of France.

I loved the democratic "fellow citizens"so pat and oratorically French.

And I sometimes think, when I come ter die, 'Twill be lonesome-like in the by and by; That up in Heaven I'll long ter hear That little child's voice, so sweet and clear; That even there, on the golden street, I'll miss the pat of them little bare feet.

They went in, an old pointer, whose days in the stubble were nearly over, following close at Georgie's heels, but without obtaining a pat for his loving memory.

Naomi had plucked three fowls and trussed them, and wrapping each in a white napkin, had packed them in her basket with a dozen and a half of eggs, a few pats of butter, and a nosegay or two of garden-flowersSweet Williams, marigolds, and heart's-ease: for it was market-day at Tregarrick.

I'm" She reached out, placing her hand pat across his mouth, and, in the languid air of the room, shuddering so that her lips trembled.

Now I can work the buttermilk out, and salt the butter, and I'm going to send your mamma home a nice pat," which she did, and very glad Mrs. Pigg was to get it.

The concert-hall tune echoes down the dark street, The mothers lean out from the windows to see, While soft sounds the pat of the dancers' bare feet, And tenement babies crow loud in their glee; And labor-worn fathers are laughing and chatting, Forgot for an hour is grim poverty's thrall; There's joy here to-night, 'neath the swinging arc-light, In "Finnegan's Court," at the hand-organ ball.

We went with an undulating movement, leaping with a light splashing pat upon the water, from wave to wave.

"Me an' Lenore stand pat.

" They entered the laboratory together, Lewisham holding the door open courtly-wise, Miss Heydinger taking a reassuring pat at her hair.

When Old Tilly had come abreast of him again, he reached out a brotherly hand and bestowed a hearty pat on his arm.

"Poor little doggie, does he want a pat?" He fairly crouched to the sidewalk in his thankfulness for the pat, his tail and eyes saying all they could.

" Again, as beside the girl, there was a mute, throbbing lapse; then, similarly before there could be an answer, upon the tense silence there broke the swift pat of moccasined feet, and he was gone.

A Frenchman and his wife were traveling in Russia, and" "Ifif you had an old mother like mine up-stairs, Milton, eating out her heart and her days and her weeks and her months over a husband's grave somewhere in Siberia and a son's grave somewhere in Kishinef, you wouldn't see the joke neither." Mr. Bauer executed a self-administered pat sharply against the back of his hand.