The Merced River, as a whole, is remarkably like an elm-tree, and it requires but little effort on the part of the imagination to picture it standing upright, with all its lakes hanging upon its spreading branches, the topmost eighty miles in height.

The low wind shook the darkened pane, The far clock chimed along the hall, There came a moment's gust of rain, The swallow chirped a single call From his eaves'-nest, the elm-bough swayed Moaning;they slumbered unafraid.

Whilst the prince lolled and pulled at his clay pipe, she busied herself all round the tiny room, polishing the backs of the old elm chairs, and the brass handles of the chest of drawers.

When the elmen leaf is as big as an ox's eye, Then say I, 'Hie, boys, hie!'" A Warwickshire variation is: "When elm leaves are big as a shilling, Plant kidney beans, if to plant 'em you're willing.

The light of the fire outside flashed on their faces, as they stooped to enter the elm-bark tent, and in the foremost I recognized the hideous Rupe Falardeau, Junior.

She had brought the netting, as she promised, for Dakie Thayne, who received it with thanks, and straightway hastened off to get his "elephant" and a piece of string, and to find a convenient elm-branch which he could convert into a cage-pasture.

I would have dried leaves provided, such as an oak leaf, an elm leaf, an ash leaf, &c. &c.

Elm wood is light brown in color and very heavy and strong.

SLIPPERY ELM TEA.Pour boiling water over bits of slippery elm bark or slippery elm powder, cool, and strain, if desired, a little lemon juice and sugar may be added to flavor.

She loathed the flat Essex country and the streets of little white rough cast and red-tiled houses on the Ilford side where the clear fields had once lain beyond the tall elm rows.

And the gay humming things that summer loves, Through the warm air, or altering the bound Where yon elm-shadows in majestic line Divide dominion with the abundant light.

A yellow mule was hitched to the rickety fence in front of her and she stood on the stoop of a little white frame-house with an elm switch between her teeth and gloves on her hands, which were white and looked strong.

They comprise 40 acres, with some very fine elm timber.

Among the elm-tops the autumnal air Murmurs, and spectral in the fading light A solitary heron wings its way Southwardsave this no sound or touch of life.

Then had come the short interview under the elm treean interview which had shown him a new Esther, demure, adorable, with eyes which refused to look at him.

Outside, the March wind is roughly hustling the dry, brown trees and pinching the diffident green shoots, while the round and rayless sun of late afternoon is staring, from behind the elm-twigs in at the long maps on the wall, in at the high chairstall of back, cruelly tiny of seat, off whose rungs we have kicked all the paintin at the green baize table, richly freaked with splashes.

I went along a passage that led to a small door opening into the garden, and then crossed the garden, to a gate that intersected an elm-walk and a private horse-path on the outside.

Here still an aged elm aspires, Beneath whose far projecting shade (And which the shepherd still admires) The children of the forest play'd.

A bird flutters round the topmost boughs of the elm yonder and disappears with a flash of blueit is a jay.

Without another word she mounted her machine and rode away up the elm avenue.

The school room was clammily, reproachfully silent, every tick of the elm clock which told off the time without prejudice, seemed to pile up evidence of a hostile nature.

Promotion arrives from no point of the compass; nothing but a little tide of homely life ebbs and flows in these elm-girt villages above the fen.

The orioles' nest was well woven in pear shape, dangling from close-swinging twigs at the end of an elm limb which hung over a creek in Orange County, Indiana.

The corn is splendid in the old elm lot, and then the Major has been chopping down your old sugar camp, where we worked when you came home from old Hewitt's." "Oh, dear, that was the loveliest bit of woodland, in the bend of the creek, in all the magnificent woods;

If you have no elm feed oak and fig leaves.