He describes a supper at an ale-house, and how he plays on the flute.

Take half a peck of fine flour, the yolks of six eggs and four whites, a little salt, a pint of ale yeast, and as much new milk made warm as will make it a thin light paste, stir it about with your hand, but be sure you don't knead them; have ready six wooden quarts or pint dishes, fill them with the paste, (not over full) let them stand a quarter of an hour to rise, then turn them out into the oven, and when they are baked rasp them.

The beverages composed partly of fermented liquors, are hot spiced wines, bishop, egg-flip, egg-hot, ale posset, sack posset, punch, and spirits-and-water.

On Mochuda's departure the ale barrel drained out to the lees.

Ale brewers usually put into the bung-hole of each cask, when stowed away, a handful of half boiled hops impregnated with wort, the object of which is to exclude the atmospheric air by covering the surface of the liquid; but some brewers, more rigidly attentive, insert (privately) at the same time, about one ounce of powdered black rosin, previously mixed with beer, which swims on the surface, but after a time is partially absorbed.

A very common class of offenders were those who would not leave their ale cups to go to service (see authorities cited, passim).

" "Nay," said Friar Tuck piously, "ye do think of profane things and of nought else; yet, truly, there be better safeguards against care and woe than ale drinking and bright eyes, to wit, fasting and meditation.

There he first meets Nance, surrounded by what audience we know not, and is struck dumb at the lovely figure standing out in bashful relief, as it were, against a background of wine bottles and ale tankards.

Cuckoo kings and princes were chosen, or lords and ladies of the games; ale-drawers were appointed.

It would seem that there were special wardens here for ale drawing.

And there we played single-stick, smite-jacket, skittles, bowlsaye, and drank deep of the city alethe very thinnest brew that was ever passed by a bribed and muzzy ale-taster.

Reminds me of a delicate wineglass crowded in among a ruck of ale flagons and battered quart-cups.

Then hey, Willy Waddykin, Stay, Billy Waddykin, And let the brown ale flow free, flow free, The beggar's the man for me.

" Jenkins received this as the result of a dance, but much wanted to fetch a tray, which Julius refused, and set off with an ale-glass in one hand, and in the other the plates with the beef and appliances, Jenkins watching in jealous expectation of a catastrophe, having no opinion of Mr. Julius's powers as a waiter.

A Moloss is a poetic foot consisting of three long syllables; as, De~ath's p=ale h=orse,gre=at wh=ite thr=one,d=eep d=amp v=a=ult.

But th' shopkeepers an' th' ale-heawses are in for it as ill as ony mak.

Whether he had the old dislike for the ale business or not, he saw therein a means of support, and adopted it.

In 1536 at Morebath, Devon, the parish agreed that the clerk should gather his "hire meat" (i.e., so much corn of each one) at Easter, "& then ye p[a]rysse schall helpe to drenke him a coste of ale yn ye churche howse."

The chorus is not yet forgotten: "Backe and side go bare, go bare, Booth foot and hand go colde; But, belly, God send thee good ale inoughe, Whether it be new or olde!"

A ginger ale jag is terrible.

We drank it, O ale-knight, sub teg.

I asked the young 'ooman for a bottle o' ale, when she put a tallish bottle down wi' a beg head; an' as I wur dry I knocked the neck off, an' the ale kum a-fizzing out like ginger pop,an' 'twer no use to try to stop the fizzle.

Over the ale mugs at the village inn 'twas whispered by the landlord that the day before two men, wearing masques, had left the place together, one bearing under his saddle-bag a monk's robe; and a crucifix had fallen from his pocket as he mounted.

British Plants cultivated for ornamental purposes Miscellaneous Articles not mentioned under the foregoing heads On extracting Sugar from Beet-root On liquid Sugar made from Apple-juice On the Urtica canadensis, or Canadian Hemp-plant On the bleeding of Trees and obtaining Sap for the purposes of making Wine and brewing Ale PLANTS USEFUL IN AGRICULTUE.

His first convert to total abstinence was a man named John King; Livesey and he signed together; and on 1st September, 1832, at a meeting held at Preston, seven men"the Seven Men of Preston," as they are calledsigned the pledge, of which the following is a facsimile: [Handwritten: We agree to abstain from all Liquors of an Intoxicating Quality, whether ale porter Wine, or Ardent Spirits, except as Medicine.