An' the little dame here says he's not to be croaked, but--

Any friend of the little dame is a friend of mine.

What were we to do with this resolute little dame of the marshes?

And any friend of th' little dame here is a friend o' mine.

So I says to the little dame: 'I'm wit' youse, see?

It ain't often a feller like me gets a swell little dame that worships him.

Rebecca's doll-blue eyes spilled over with tears, but Mistress Hortense was the high-mettled, high-stepping little dame.

She was some swell little dame, she was.'

But these ginks tells th' little dame here they t'inks I has said to croak him.

Sometimes they change pupils; my lord educates the little dame, and my lady the hope of Raynham.

She sure is one clever little dame.

These, however, had peculiar value, for the good little dame assured us that they had belonged to Robin Hood.

She's a square little dame.

Wonder what the little dame means to buy her own fine things with, for even robins must get clothing?

This is an affectionate half-humorous description of the little dame-school of Shenstone's-andof everybody's-nativevillage, and has the true idyllic touch.

So I thinks it over and I says to m'self th' big boob's been pullin' rough stuff on th' little dame here.