" Headed by SARY YOUMANS, the crossest old made in the U.S., and all armed with broom-sticks and darnin'-needles, the door of my editorial offis was busted open, and the whole caboodle of wimmen, famishin' for my top hair, entered.

There stood old Honeycutt, tremblingly upheld upon his sawed-off broom-handle.

Rue, likewise, which entered so largely into magic rites, was once much in request as an antidote against such practices; and nowadays, when worn on the person in conjunction with agrimony, maiden-hair, broom-straw, and ground ivy, it is said in the Tyrol to confer fine vision, and to point out the presence of witches.

Grandpa planted some broom corn and we swept the yards and lots with brooms made out of brush.

Let the peaches cook gently until each one may easily be pierced with a broom splint.

Thy brow had brightness and lily-whiteness, Thy cheeks were clear as yon crimson sea; Like broom-buds gleaming, thy locks were streaming, As I lay dreaming, my love, of thee.

"Worn to the stumps, now, too many of them, sir; and want new-hething, as our broom-squires would say; and I doubt whether most of them are worth the cost of a fresh bind.

was, "wont to drink the distilled water of broom-flowers against surfeits and diseases thereof arising."

The low land, at least that part over which the fires had not passed, Was covered with a thickly matted broom-grass; and, where it was burnt off, the soil was observed to be composed of a hard and stiff clay, the surface of which bore the appearance of having been frequently inundated, either by high tides, or, more probably, by freshes in the rainy season.

If it hadn't been for the broom handlejust the end of it stickin' up"he shrugged his gaunt shoulders as he stuffed the tobacco into the bowl of his pipe"I'd been dead!"

In the third room that she entered she saw a sight that arrested her instantly and made her cry out in astonishment,a girl who looked so much like her that she might have been her own sister, and, what was stranger, wore a brown stuff gown exactly like her own, was busily at work in this room with a big broom killing spiders!

Their baskets are strong and graceful, and I have seen men sitting in village doorways, weaving the beautiful broom-plant, yellow flowers and all, until basket and bouquet seemed one.

In conclusion, I have to observe, that the broom punishment is only for extraordinary occasions, and I think we are justified in having recourse to any means that are consistent with duty and humanity, in preference to turning a child out into the wide world.

They were the petals and calyxes of that strange flower, lathraea, of the broom-rape family.

"During the War they were scared nearly to death of the soldiers and would run down in their master's big orchard and hide in the tall broom sage.

Much tall grass, woods, and broom-sedge covered the unwooded space between the opposing lines; rarely could a man be seen.

Bubbles dressed up as a witchred cloak, high peaked hat, short multi-coloured skirt, high boots and broom-stickall complete!

While they are smouldering and sending forth volumes of smoke across the fields, young men kindle broom-stumps, soaked in pitch, at the bonfires and then, brandishing the stumps, which emit showers of sparks, they chase one another or dance with the girls round the burning pile.

Chiefly because "a new broom sweeps clean,"not so much for the reason that it is new, as because you are interested in the instrument.

You put a broom acrosst your door at night an old witches gotta count ever straw in dat broom fore she can come in.

I'd done gathered in that mizzable red-headed Joe Cowan on a give-out horse, claim-in' he'd been chousin' after broom-tails.

"I put my broom agin the wall, and we walked round to the Bull's Head like a couple o' brothers.

"I read about it the other day, and it's a broom-bag.

The broom bushes looked ghostly.

Mr. Wallace laments (and rightly) the absence in the tropic forests of such grand masses of colour as are supplied by a heather moor, a furze or broom-croft, a field of yellow charlock, blue bugloss, or scarlet poppy.