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"Lor', sir," the boy said, not without a certain pride, "I knows a corpse when I sees it. My father died come a fortnight ago. See that?" And he indicated, with stumpy finger, the black band upon his left arm. "Well, father looked just like the gentleman." Julian was petrified by this urchin's intimacy with death. It struck him as utterly vicious and terrible.

"Oh, poor thing!" cried Margery; "let me go up to her." She was a sensitive creature, and the colour had ebbed out of her pretty face. "Lor, no!" the woman cried; "she ain't the kind o' gal you'd oughter be doing things for, she was allus right down common, an' she's sunk down 'bout as low as a gal can." But Margery went up to the room where the moaning was going on.

"Lor now! if dat ar de way dem northern ladies do, dey an't ladies, nohow," she said to some of her satellites, when at a safe hearing distance. "I has things as straight as anybody, when my clarin' up times comes; but I don't want ladies round, a henderin', and getting my things all where I can't find 'em."

'Lor bless her dear heart, when she has lived as long as I have, sir, and had thirteen children of her own, and all on 'em dead except two, and them in the wurkus with me, she'll know better than to take on in that way, bless her dear heart! Think what it is to be a mother, there's a dear young lamb do.

Looking in the direction to which their attention was turned, we saw a group of eight or ten negro women and small children accompanied by an aged colored patriarch. One of the Johns suddenly forgetting his ecstacy of delight, rolling up the whites of his eyes and holding his hands above his head, exclaimed with impressive gravity, "Oh my Lor a massa! What'l ole missus do now?"

That thing guv my lily-queen the 'orrors. Jes you 'ear, Mr. Beecot, and creeps will go up your back. Lor' 'ave mercy on us as don't know the wickedness of the world." "I think we have learned something of it lately, Mrs. Tawsey," was Paul's grim reply. "But tell me " "Wot my pore angel sunbeam said? I will, and if it gives you nightmares don't blame me," and Mrs.

I know, said Mrs Chick, 'for the same young person has made me many dresses. The very best materials, too! 'Lor, you'll be so smart, said Miss Tox, 'that your husband won't know you; will you, Sir? 'I should know her, said Toodle, gruffly, 'anyhows and anywheres. Toodle was evidently not to be bought over.

"Well, if I 'ave, I ain't the on'y one wot 'as," said Eliza darkly. Her wizened little face suddenly flushed. "Lor, Miss," she said confidentially, "you doan't know wot a success that 'at you trimmed for me is. It's a fair scream. I wore it larst night, an' me young man 'im wot's in the Royal Irish well, it fair knocked 'im!

"I s'pose the gentleman knows best himself what he wants to paint," said Mrs White. "Lor', of course he do," Mrs Wishing hastened to reply; "and, as I said to Mrs Greenways, `Red cheeks or white cheeks don't make much differ to a gal in life. It's the upbringing as matters." Mrs White looked hardly so pleased with this sentiment as her visitor had hoped.

Annie don't care for 'ouse work and Minnie's got no 'ed for it. What they'll do without me I can't imagine." "They'll have to do without you," said Mr. Polly, sticking to his guns. A clock in the town began striking. "Lor'!" said Miriam, "we shall miss Annie sitting 'ere and love-making!" She rose and made as if to take Mr. Polly's arm. But Mr.