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"I have had that wad sober me or ony ane," said the matron, "Aweel, Tibb, a lass like me wasna to lack wooers, for I wasna sae ill-favoured that the tikes wad bark after me." "How should that be," said Tibb, "and you sic a weel-favoured woman to this day?"

'Na, yer can't do thet now; it's bigamy, an' the cop tikes yer, an' yer gits twelve months' 'ard for it. 'But swop me bob, Liza, I can't go on like this. Yer knows the missus well, there ain't no bloomin' doubt abaht it, she knows as you an' me are carryin' on, an' she mikes no bones abaht lettin' me see it. 'She don't do thet?

An' all through you! She shook her fist at her. 'I never 'ad any money from anyone. 'Don' talk ter me; I know yer did. Yer dirty bitch! You oughter be ishimed of yourself tikin' a married man from 'is family, an' 'im old enough ter be yer father. 'She's right there! said one or two of the onlooking women. 'There can't be no good in 'er if she tikes somebody else's 'usbind.

The people prize these wretched tikes, because they are ever ready to worry a stranger, and are useful in driving game from the bush. Yet they barbarously ill-treat them. The hungry cats are as poor a breed as the pure English, and, though no one feeds them, these domesticated tigerkins swarm. The only happy pets are the parrots.

Who else nosed out the Fifth of November, save our royal selves? Cecil, and Suffolk, and all of them, were at fault, like sae mony mongrel tikes, when I puzzled it out: and trow ye that I cannot smell pouther?

This impression was confirmed by the chorus of irrepressible little Cadges proclaiming: "Mother tikes in washin', H'and so does sister h'Ann, H'everybody works at our 'ouse, But my old " a burst of melody which was abruptly checked with a tomato can hurled like a hand-grenade by their unmusical father. "Look here, Cadge," said Mr.

'Aw right, says Conly, 'awsk him to cam in eah to me. You should 'a seen the owld josser's feaches wnoy towld im. 'Oyd zoyred jou to sy e was to cam in eah to me. 'Shloy gow and tell him again? I says, as cool as ennything. 'Now, says he, 'Oil gow myself. Thets wot Aw loike in Conly. He tikes tham fellers dahn wen they troy it on owver im." Meanwhile, Mr.

I have given my three "hostages to fortune" and during the last few days when we've been living, like the infant Moses, in a series of rushes, I have awakened to the fact that they are indeed hostages. For the little tikes, no matter how you maneuver, still demand a big share of your time and energy. But one finally manages, in some way or another.

I runs 'im up an' down the slaughter yard to get 'is circulation up I strokes 'im on the neck, an' tells 'im wot a fine feller 'e is, till 'e's in such good spirits that 'e tikes the killin' as a joke. Just a part of the gime, as it were. Sime with these 'ere pups. They'd like 'aving their tiles bit orf by me." We looked at the puppies doubtfully.

It was when we reached the lighter portion of the feast that tongues were unloosed, and conviviality bloomed like an exotic flower in Mrs. Handsomebody's dining-room. Mary Ellen placed a plateful of scraps on the floor before Anita. She said, "That ought to stand to her, pore thing! She do be awful ganted." "These 'ere fancies is wot tikes me," said Mr.