for it was so Father Wills pronounced s-l-o-u-g-h.

Ah, yes, a rooat least, it's spelt r-o-u-e, that must be roo all rightbut wait till I see what that is that's written across the topMADELINE MEADOWLARK;

[Footnote U of this poem]]

"Nothing is more easy than to mistake an u for an a."Tooke's Diversions, i, 130.

The bull drank a little more, and then he stood up and bellowed, "Bu-u-u! m-m-ah-oo!"

He erred sometimes in his principles, or in their application; as when he adopted the k in such words as rhetorick, and demoniack; or when he inserted the u in such words as governour, warriour, superiour.

All at once he went 'whu-u-u', and then the whole drove come up.

One extract will be sufficient to show the way in which the affair was treated: "Let U = the University, G = Greek, and P = Professor.

I love to prattle of 'ole Marster' and 'ole Miss,' and throw in a sprinkling of 'mockin'-buds' and 'hants' and 'horg-killing time,' and of sweeping animadversions as to all 'free niggers'; and to narrate how 'de quality use ter cum'you spell it c-u-m because that looks so convincingly like dialect'ter de gret hous.'

The professor used to say that I read my Latin b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l-l-y, but that I didn't get much English out of it.

To Erech, pines and cedars we can bring With all the wealth of Elam's giant king, And Erech fill with glorious parks and halls, Remove these man-u-bani, ruined walls.

[Transcriber's Note: [=O] represents O with macron, [=o] represents o with macron, [=u] represents u with macron] PREFACE About ten years ago, while spending a few days under the hospitable roof of the distinguished Belgian jurist, the lamented M. de Laveleye, our conversation turned, during one of our rambles, to the subject of religion.

Perhaps it is our reverence for the custom of hanging men that sacredly preserves the elder formas some, even, of the most zealous American spelling reformers still respect the u in Saviour.

I love the bu-hir-tser-i all, Khar-sa-a-nii sa-qu-u-tu; Hear cu-uts-tsi[10] with thunder roll Across the skies within my view.

2. The close, curt, short, or stopped u; as in tub, butter, justice, unhung.

"And you must measure," I say, "more naturally: pull and stretch ju-u-u-st enough, God save us, not to tear the cloth: you see," I say, "we don't have to wear it afterwards.

Go into the town and send such tradesmen hither as may supply u

U U | U U | Cannon to right of them, U U

"It was sort of natural-like, an' what a man looks for, and it broke up about as unpleasant a sit-u-ation as I've seen staged.

[Footnote 4: "Ab-u-li," guard of the great gates of the city.]

The whole thing was new to me, and I did not raise my hand, but slyly whispered the letter "u" to "Red Head" several times.

2. WITH ANAPESTICS, &c. "T~o l=ove ~and t~o l=angu~ish, T~o s=igh | ~and c~ompl=ain, H~ow cr=u~el's th~e =angu~ish! H~ow t~orm=ent | -~ing th~e p=ain!

We crown Tar-u-ma-ni iz-zu sar-ri!

He never named the English letters rightly; long ago discarded the term Double-u; and is not yet tired of his experiment with "oo;" but thinks still to make the vowel sound of this letter its name.

Our hair was parted in four equal divisions; the front braids, tied with ribbon, formed a U at the back of the neck; and we wore new calico dresses and sun-bonnets, and carried lunch for two in a curious little basket, which grandma must have brought with her from Switzerland.