The first part of the moon we approached, was a level plain, of great extent, divided into corn-fields, on which, having lowered our grapnel, we drew ourselves down without difficulty.

In the matter of provisions, the following is a list which is considered sufficient to last a man on his trip from Juneau to Dawson City: 20 pounds of flour, 12 pounds of bacon, 12 " " beans, 4 " " butter, 5 " " vegetables, 4 cans of condensed milk, 5 pounds of sugar, 1 pound of tea, 3 pounds of coffee, 1 1-2 pound of salt, 5 pounds of corn meal, A small portion of pepper and mustard.

We had been stopping at farm houses along the road, and could not get anything to eat in the shape of bread, except corn bread, of which all had become heartily tired.

It was clear that the senate was not powerful enough to wrest either from the merchants or from the proletariat their new privileges; any attempt to assail the corn laws or the new jury arrangement would have led under a somewhat grosser or somewhat more civilized form to a street riot, in presence of which the senate was utterly defenceless.

Thirty-five thousand acres of corn land are to be added to the national store in this county of Hertfordshire alone.

We got downtown, to a wide street, and there was a fire alarm ahead, or something, and the procession stopped, and the manager and chief of police disappeared, and there was a wagon load of green corn stalks right beside the lead team, which a farmer was taking to a silo, but he had stopped his team to see the parade.

London is like a shelled corn-cob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.

B. A grocer's or corn-chandler's shop.

" The afternoon was now ending, and we were given a meal of corn-cakes and roast deer's flesh.

" The quest of the candle would take the guide to the closet in the guard-room, and, risking little to learn much, Dick struck a match and peered into the stuffy little room, more like a corn-crib than a prison-cell.

The digging of the soil preparatory to raising a corn-crop is work; the making of brooms; the writing of fugues.

" Interviewer: Samuel S. Taylor Person interviewed: Campbell Armstrong 802 Schiller Street, Little Rock, Arkansas Age: 86 [HW: Boys liked corn shuckings]

Beyond this, she stopped occasionally for direction, she met more people; yet she was still in the heart of the mountains when noon found her, and she crept up a wayside bank and sat down alone to eat her bite of corn pone.

He sauntered in with a Mexican corn-husk cigarette between his lips, carrying a lantern; blew the light out, and sat down with a careless greeting, as though he had seen us only the day before.

Her bed was made of a few sticks with some corn shucks thrown over them.

In the bottom of the chasm are a number of corn-mills as old as the time of the Moors.

Robert J. Turnbull, of Charleston, S.C., a slaveholder, says, "The subsistence of the slaves consists, from March until August, of corn ground into grits, or meal, made into what is called hominy, or baked into corn bread.

Use a little pure talcum powder or dry sifted corn starch under the arms and in the groin to prevent chafing.

Ike came out of the house and helped him unload the buckets, and carry them into an old corn-house which stood behind the barn: As soon as the Frenchman had turned his oxen's head down the lane, the Elder set out for the house, across the fields.

(I may say, in passing, that he was trying to sell me a new kind of corn-planter.)

In Kansas you can see it hitched up to the alfalfa-stacker; in Illinois and Iowa it is harnessed up to the corn-cutter; in Indiana it runs the dairy machinery.

They did something pretty nice for the corn belt when they drove you out of Hungary.

That afternoon I marked out my corn-field, driving the mare to my home-made wooden marker, carefully observant of the straightness of the rows; for a crooked corn-row is a sort of immorality.

Of late years his possession of Sicily had given him command of the Roman corn market.

We run it with a two-hole corn sheller, a set of 16-inch burr stones, and an elevator.