With the exception of little spots not visible in general views, the entire surface is covered with them, massed in close hedge growth, sweeping gracefully down into every gorge and hollow, and swelling over every ridge and summit in shaggy, ungovernable exuberance, offering more honey to the acre for half the year than the most crowded clover-field.

More years passed, and finally fear of Mrs. Appleman became to an extent attenuated, while the scent of the clover-blossoms gained intensity.

A Clover-leaf wagon stood in front of a store, the wheels crusted by dry mud, and the team fidgeted amidst a swarm of flies.

They also found clover leaves, and I told them its name and sang to them the verse from 'The Bee,' with 'The sweet-smelling clover, he, humming, hangs over.' "Thursday.

Clover-seed is sown during March in wheat, and left till the following year.

" "No"answered Mike, looking at the stick, in a doubting manner"I'll not t'row it away, wid yer honour's l'ave, 'till I've told ye how we got into the brook, forenent the forest, and waded up to the woods, where we was all the same as if we had been two bits of clover tops hid in a haymow.

She was always as contented as a honey-bee on a clover-head, for the same reason, I guess.

In the morning I shall write out for you to-day's clover song.

The brownish ones were old clover meadows: and the black ones, deserted grazing lands or ploughed-up fallow pastures.

And she looked down the orchard path and the meadow's clover bloom; She stood by the stone-walled well that had mirrored her face when a child, She saw where the robins built, and her roses clambered wild, And lingered lost in thought in each low and rustic room.

All at once he jumped up, and flying back at Martin, snatched him up from the ground, carried him to the clover patch, and set him upon it, face down, on all fours; then when Martin sat up he grasped him by the head and forced it down until his nose was on the grass so as to make him smell it and know that it was good.

Be sure you count, should I forget, Some one the sum could tell, This, and my heart, and all the bees Which in the clover dwell.

Thus he writes:'I hope to see standing corn in some part of the earth this summer, but I shall hardly smell hay or suck clover flowers.'

On the wheat lands, summer fallow, wheat, and clover pasture, form the three years' rotation.

He has found out a new sort of poetical Georgics, a trick of sowing wit like clover-grass on barren subjects which would yield nothing before.

He took her head between his hands, her clover-laden breath fanning his cheeks, and looked at the dark muzzle and the large eyes, almost human in their tenderness.

Your betters had no share in the immediate cause of the war; we know what nation has that blot to wipe out; but for fifty years or so we heeded not the rumblings of the distant drum, I do not mean by lack of military preparations; and when war did come we told youth, who had to get us out of it, tall tales of what it really is and of the clover beds to which it leads.

Whereas I took the butterfly Aforetime in my hat, He sits erect in cabinets, The clover-bells forgot.

So she made tiny, tiny loaves and prepared some vegetables out of grass and made some clover chutney.

The clover-cutting had begun.

Barefoot, trip through the meadow lane, Laughing at bruise and scratch; Come, with your hands all rich with stain Fresh from the blackberry patch; Come where the orchard spreads its store And the breath of the clover greets; Quick!

" "And radishes from the garden, and buttermilk and clover honey and raspberries, andlet me see" "Let's go!" said the soldier.

The sun Behind the mountain's summit slowly sank; Crows came in clouds down from the moorlands dun, And darkened all the pine-trees, rank on rank; The homeward milch-cows at the fountains drank; Swains dropt the sickle, hinds unloosed the car The twin hares sported on the clover-bank,

But the propriety of the use of these clover-lines was hinted by a constructive exigency, the pointed arch.

By the stubbles on the land I could not tell which had been wheat, or which had been oats or barley; nor could I see any clover-roots where the clover had grown.