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"Coortin' of thy mother, lad?" cried Farmer Snowe, with as much amazement as if the thing were impossible; "why, who ever hath been dooin' of it?" "Yes, courting of my mother, sir. And you know best who comes doing it." "Wull, wull! What will boys be up to next? Zhud a' thought herzelf wor the proper judge. No thank 'ee, lad, no need of thy light.

'Coortin' of thy mother, lad? cried Farmer Snowe, with as much amazement as if the thing were impossible; 'why, who ever hath been dooin' of it? 'Yes, courting of my mother, sir. And you know best who comes doing it. 'Wull, wull! What will boys be up to next? Zhud a' thought herzelf wor the proper judge. No thank 'ee, lad, no need of thy light.

With a twinkle in his eye, the old gentleman related the incident of the morning, while Angus, with a grim expression, kept his eye on Beauty, who gazed inquiringly out at the half-open door of her retreat. "It iss a pad craitur you've peen fery pad ever since I got you, but it iss no more mischief you will pe dooin' after this whatever."

"Jack," said I, some years since, to a handy "hedge carpenter," in the county of Wexford, "why did you not come last night to do the job I wanted? It is done now, and you have lost it." "Whi-thin, that's my misforthin any how an be-dad 'twas a double misforthin too, for I wus dooin nothin else thin devartin meeself." "Diverting yourself," said I, "and not minding your business?"

He was not in the habit of "tooting his own horn," as he would have put it, but the boy's face invited confidence. "A record for dooin' my duty," he answered slowly. "'Tain't as easy as you might think for." "No?" "Not by no means. Ye see, Bud, in a new country 'tisn't only the real bad eggs that worries us. The community can deal with them.