New Century Speaker and Writer: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory - Henry Davenport Northrop

And ‘Bessie dear, run to the door!’

And ‘Bessie love, pick up the playthings

The baby has dropped on the floor!’

“Yes, Doctor, I’m ’siderably tired,

I’ve been on my feet all the day;

Good-bye! well, perhaps I will help you

When your old Bridget ‘goes off to stay!’”