It could only be a herd's cottage, where I might hope for a peat fire, a bicker of brose, and, at the worst, a couch of dry bracken.

That took me along a rough ridge of mountain pitted with peat-bogs into which I often stumbled.

The valley having again opened out, gave us easy access to its banks, which were here a rich black peat soil, containing numerous springs.

I am a great lover of uplands, and the sourest peat-moss has a charm for me, but to that strange glen I conceived at once a determined hate.

The rich Morten Bruus covets poor Ole Andersen's peat moor and pasture land.

"How are you getting forrad with t' peat-cutting?"

As he put it, there was no joke in sleeping in a room with a numerous family of healthy Irish in one corner and the pigsty in the other, while overhead a ragged colony of roosting fowls distributed their blessings impartially, and the whole place so full of peat smoke that it made a fellow sneeze his head off just to put it inside the doorway.

A characteristic of his cold, callous temperament was that he took fire slowly, but, once lit, his hate endured like peat coals in a grate.

It needs a sandy peat border under a north wall, and is increased by bulbs or seeds.

Mrs. M'Crawney was an Irishwoman who was always sighing for the mild, moist climate and the peat reek of her childhood's home.

AE was ambushed behind piles of newspapers, and behind him in a grate filled with smouldering peat blocks sat the black tea kettle.

There's acres o' good stuff on Malton moor, and the value o' peat t' labor it costs to cut.

In the same way, there was a cry from the same quarter for peat charcoal, instead of preventing the need of disinfectants.

I lock the door and put the key in me pocket, for I's bin up the hill yonner cuttin' peat sin seven o'clock this mornin'.

Cowards, old Odin held, inevitably went to the very bottom of Hela-pool, and by no possibility, unless of course they became brave at last, could rise out of that everlasting bog, but sank whining lower and lower, like mired cattle, to all eternity in the unfathomable peat-slime.

Like gloomy sentinels, furry cattails nod in the bog where the blue gentian peeps timidly into murky pools; the only human habitation in sight some heath boer's ling-thatched hut, flanked by rows of peat stacks in vain endeavor to stay the sweep of the pitiless west wind.

When in a flowering stage the Bryanthus is one of the brightest occupants of the peat bed, and is a very suitable companion for such dwarf plants as the Heaths, Menziesias, and smaller growing Kalmias.

Sadly bare and empty now in the hut; a heavy silence clung about the peat walls and the earthen floor; a deep and solemn loneliness.

You see, there's plenty peat cut; the trouble is to bring it down.

CHAPTER IV THE PEAT CUTTERS Osborn was dissatisfied and moody when, one afternoon, he stood, waiting for the grouse, behind a bank of turf on Malton moor.

Occasionally the pickaxe uncovered peat deposits of unsuspected depth and value.

The Changeable Hydrangea, H. hortensis, is of Chinese origin and a pretty growing plant that deserves to be a favorite; it blossoms in bunches of flowers at the extremities of the branches which are naturally pink, but in old peat earth, or having a mixture of alum, or iron filings, the color changes to blue.

We have here a natural chronometer; for we know the rate at which peat forms, and we can, therefore, assign a certain age to a given depth.

I know a magic moorland with wild winds drifting by, And pools among the peat-hags that mirror back the sky; And there in golden bracken the fronds that toss and turn Are really little people pretending to be fern.

My mother put up her mittens to her eyes, and my father looked as black as a peat hole.