Treats the Butterball

Usage examples of bastes.

An' on the foxes, an' the cats, an' the wazels, an' the hen-hahks, an' ahl the other bastes," added the invisible witness, in unheard soliloquy.

Does n't she look as if she'd clans the house out o'them little bastes, bad luck to em.

The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding~dong again' the horses.

Would you have me meddle with the bastes of any neighbour, who might put me in the Stone Jug for it?

Orphus that lived in th' old time, an' drawed the bastes after un wi' his music, same as curate was tellin' the maids.

What with bastes, and varmints, and riptiles, and traes, and bushes, and rivers, it bates all creation.

Sure what else but love for us poor bastes in the stokehole would be bringing a fine lady, dressed like a white quane, down a mile of ladders and steps to be havin' a look at us?