Why is Lucifers like, when riding sur un souris, on a mouse, like the very same tings?
You gives him up?
Ah, ha! I t'ought you would never guess him!" he continued, on our professing our ignorance of the solution.
"Because he is synonime!--vat you calls sin-on-a-mouse! Ha, ha, ha!" and he burst into a chuckle of his merry laughter.
This reminded Horner of one.

"Bai-ey Je-ove!" he said, after a long pause.

"I--ah, came akwass a vewy good one the othah day--ah.

A blind beggah had a bwoth-ah, and the bwoth-ah died; now, what welation was-- ah, the blind beggah to the--ah, dead beggah ?" "His sister, of course," said Bessie Dasher, promptly.
"Weally," said Horner, who usually put on most of his _w_ and _r_ ish airs when in the presence of ladies in evening costume: in the day he sometimes spoke more plainly.

"Weally, how clevah you ah! I asshaw you, I didn't gwess it for neawy a week--ah!" "I can quite believe _that_!" said Seraphine, wickedly.
"Did you ever hear any of Praed's charades ?" I asked Min.
"No," she said.