Are you very sure that Antoinette may not be a slyboots?

And to each of them the little slyboots replied,-

My lord burst out, with a laugh and an oath-Youyoung slyboots, you've been at Nancy Sievewright.

Oh, you slyboots! says the Countess.

Ah, slyboots that she is!

This Ginger, Sire-oh ,he'sa slyboots if ever a cat was-saidhe was walking past the tree to which those villains bound your Majesty.

The king was so pleased at the victory that he made Slyboots his son-in-law.

Yes, yes, Slyboots, but who put the idea of keeping their own tidy, into their heads?

They sent Habakkuk Slyboots,* who delivered him the following message, as the peremptory commands of his trusty companions:-

Some time afterwards the country was invaded by a foreign king, and Slyboots was sent against the enemy in the field.

That of "Slyboots" is also interesting from the resemblance of a portion of it to "Jack and the Beanstalk."

Then Slyboots said to him mockingly, You may wait there till the feast is over, and then we will resume our conversation.

"Twelve hundred years," said Slyboots, enunciating each syllable.

That night in her musty bedroom Glory wrote home while little Slyboots slept: 'The best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft aglee.'

"Corporal," echoed Ragtag Slyboots in a ghastly voice.

"A clever person like yourself can easily correct that" (she, the slyboots, was thinking of something else).