dad

"Dad heard about him in the Marquesas, and so we started.

"Climb out, dad," Liverpool commanded as he prepared to swing from the bank and enter the rapids.

"You don't know the social mill, dad. She's part of the stream that turns it.

"Your dad can come down here if he's so anxious to talk to me.

There Dallas had first staggered across the floor shouting "Dad," while May and the nurse laughed behind the door; there their second child, Mary (who was so like her mother), had announced her engagement to the dullest and most reliable of Reggie Chivers's many sons; and there Archer had kissed her through her wedding veil before they went down to the motor which was to carry them to Grace Church--for in a world where all else had reeled on its foundations the "Grace Church wedding" remained an unchanged institution.

A chile er two, mo' er less, warn't no consekens to Sollermun, dad fatch him!"

"Why, dad," he cried, "I have just come from town, and the first thing I saw was your back as you marched away.

I've heard you and Dad talk about it till you were blue in the face."

I says, solemn-like, 'Dad, there's something I've got to tell you, and I don't know how you'll take it, but it can't be helped,' I says.

My dad had to put his hand pretty deep into his pocket, I can tell you." He chuckled.

Poor dear old dad, to think that they should have done this thing."

The dad raised their wages all round to recompense them for the annoyance.