The peasant girl who stands inside the door, and in a sing-song voice that never varies mixes up saints, fathers, towns, corn, potatoes, bells, and "quelque chose pour le gardien," in her rigmarole, was the least attractive adjunct of the venerable pile!

She dropped her eyes so that she might no longer see that awful hand, and tottered on by the new-comer's side, striving to imagine that it was indeed only a harmless peasant woman who was walking by her and trying to remember that every step was bringing her nearer to Brussels and protection.

Thus closes one of the most wild and romantic episodes of the world's historya peasant boy who became a soldier, a general who became a Presidenta President who became a great autocrat, who raised a country from obscurity to greatness, and was finally driven from power by the very people he had educated, and to whom he had brought vast blessings.

And in "The Cotter's Saturday Night" we have a glimpse of Scotch peasant life that makes us almost reverence these heroic men and women, who kept their faith and their self-respect in the face of poverty, and whose hearts, under their rough exteriors, were tender and true as steel.

The lowest orders of the peasant class, shut out from the royal courts, could only plead in questions of property in the manor courts of their lords.

My neighbours, the Kandolkars, are a peasant family and during the rains they take to farming their own fields.

The sturdy peasant population of Italy slowly disappeared.

At the earliest times of which the historical tales or Sagas tell us anything with regard to the social conditions, the land was divided among the free peasant-proprietors, or bonde class.

But there was no sense at all in a peasant lad's standing listening in the morning to the girls milking the cows and thinking thus: they're milking, listen now; 'tis almost by way of something wonderful to hear, a kind of song in nothing but little streams, different from the brass bands in the town and the Salvation Army and the steamer sirens.

Apparently a self-made man, without any childrenwho by better educations might have helped him to knowledgehis acquaintance with the French language was like a peasant child's with turtle-soup; perhaps "a lick and a promise" would best explain it.

CHANTECLER Ah, forest of the Toads, forest of the Poacher, forest of the Nightingale, and of the Pheasant-hen, when my old peasant mother sees me home again, back from your green recesses where pain is so interwoven with love, what will she say? PATOU

Several such estates constituted a Bauerschaft (peasant community), which, as a rule, bore the name of the oldest estate.

Though the heroine is in peasant dress, she is treated with distinction by her captors.

It was the work of Hardenberg to create the peasant-proprietorship of modern Prussia; but it was the previous work of Stein to establish free trade in land,which means the removal of hindrances to the sale and purchase of land, which still remains one of the abuses of England,the ultimate effect of which was to remove caste in land as well as caste in persons.

You must know of a lot of huts that have their own church and their own parsonage; and that rule over the district and the peasant homes and the neighbouring farms and barracks, wow, wow, wow?

" FOOTNOTES: In Servia, for instance, which many folk doubtless regard as a benighted country, more than four-fifths of the people are peasant farmers and cultivate lands belonging to their own families.

Peasant folks, you know, used to have such large families.

Babette was just considering whether going through it would shorten her journey, when a woman, dressed in the ordinary peasant costume of the country, emerged from it and came towards her with quick, firm steps.

Many of them had originally been independent peasant leaders; others had been under Huang Ch'ao.

This stops over every bit of land; over peasant cottage and palace; over towns and cities; over farms and railway stations; over fishing hamlets and sugar refineries.

The lowest bracket, however, in this new system of taxation comprised more land than a poor peasant would actually own, and this was a heavy blow to the small peasant-owners, who in the past had paid a proportion of their produce.

Was this striking apologia of the Georgics forced upon Vergil by the fact that in the Aetna, 264-74, he had pronounced peasant-lore trivial in comparison with science?]

The administrative task is obviously far beyond the powers of a small peasant state, most of whose present leaders were born under a foreign yoke.

Like Burns, he came of peasant stock,strong, simple, God-fearing folk, whose influence in Carlyle's later life is beyond calculation.

There is a society in Sweden known as Svenska Folkdansens Vänner for preserving the Swedish national peasant dances and for encouraging their use in the higher circles of society in preference to the French dances.