But if the ash is 'fore the oak, Then you must beware a soak.'

But if the ash is 'fore the oak, Then you must beware a soak.'

A shrew-ash was the remedy for this misfortune, viz.

The ash is a barren stock; but the hazel is thick with nuts and delight.

It is certainly the interest of the French nation to prevent, if possible, our receiving supplies from Barbary; consequently we cannot wonder that every means should be employed to accomplish this end, and Ash-Ash is certainly the fittest instrument, from his hatred to the English: fortunately, however, he is not a free agent.

The common ash (Fraxinus excelsior), too, is a lightning plant, and, according to an old couplet: "Avoid an ash, It counts the flash.

A form of well-wishing formerly current in Yorkshire was thus: "May your footfall be by the root of an ash," In allusion, it has been suggested, to the fact that the ash is a capital tree for draining the soil in its vicinity.

Ash Wednesday and the three last days of Holy Week are the major ferias which are privileged and exclude all feasts (vide Tit.

The ash of the first two was largely common salt; that of No. 3 contained, besides this, iron in some quantity.

The gray ash that was left behind is the mineral matter contained in the wood. (7) We can show that this gas is formed by pouring lime water into a bottle in which a candle has been burned as in (2).

"No wonder," said Mr. Clarkson, "that ashes are the popular comparison for a heart of extinguished affections.

Combustion, once excited, would proceed with ungovernable violence; the globe, during its short existence, would be in a continual conflagration, until its ashes would be its only remains: animals would live with hundred-fold intensity, and terminate their mortal career in a few hours.

Every rebel sympathizer driven from the North would strengthen the Union cause; ashes and salt sowed on the ground their insolent homes had desecrated, would be a holy reminder to the loyal, a warning to the secret foes of the Union.

There shall we find rest and refuge, With our dear departed brave; And the ashes of the city Be our universal grave!" THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE

And thus the ashes of Wiclif are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.

And when my grave, by all forgotten, is marked by neither cross nor stone, let the ploughman scatter its mould; and my ashes before returning to nothing will become the dust of your soil.

These ashes are the soil of future herbage and richer harvests.