The turf-cutter's donkey

Dr. Johnson resolutely kept on all his clothes, wet as they were, letting them steam before the smoky turf fire.

The grass-turf house must be our box, whence we see the rich mementos pass before usmemorials from the chronicle of saints, the chronicle of kings and the love songs that still live with the old dame, who stands in her low house there, where the lamb crops the grass on the roof.

And indeed it was wonderful to see what a change was made; even the glass windows in the old turf hut were cleaned, and the boxes swept out.

'Tis the turf-digger's ghost, near-by he dwells, And for drink his master's turf he sells.

Last autumnand at that time the grass turf roofs are covered with flowers, mostly blue and yellow, the Swedish coloursthere grew here a flower of a rare kind.

T. White, America's chief turf informant; associated with all well-known horsemen; original pink card.

The King invested me at once with the Stonibroku Order in brilliants, with the Iohu Clasp for special promise shown in connection with turf literature.

He was very much mixed up with a disreputable lot of turf-men, and I believe he made money by betting.

In the centre of one meadow is a turf manège.

A stone cross in the turf marks the site of the high altar.

A great horse-chestnut stood like a giant bouquet of waxen bloom beside a granite monument which threw a long shadow over the green turf mounds towards the west, and marked the grave of Sir Timothy Crewys.

So all the summer the wigwam remained on the turf-patch and the sentries on the qui vive.

One had to crawl into bed and lie just under the whitewashed "scraa" or turf roofing, which smelt deliciously with an odor that at times still haunts the cottage lad in statelier homes.

At Auchnasheal, we sat down on a green turf seat at the end of a house; they brought us out two wooden dishes of milk, which we tasted.

A little lawn of softest turf slopes up gently to the ruined mosque, of which a portion of an apse and vaulted dome alone stand sentinel over its fallen greatness.

this turf-smoke affects my breath: we might Draw back a space.

And they used to make piratical expeditions down to Lynn in eight oars, to attack bargemen, and fen girls, and shoot ducks, and sleep under turf-stacks, and come home when they had drank all the public-house taps dry.

While he drives to the station we may as well give an account of Tom's position in the firm of Bargrave and Co. Old Bargrave's sister had chosen to marry a certain Mr. Ryfe, of whom nobody knew more than that he could shoot pigeons, had been concerned in one or two doubtful turf transactions, and played a good hand at whist.

For now the treacherous turf Trembling gives way; and the unwieldy beast Self-sinking, drops into the dark profound.

CHANTECLER I never start to sing until my eight claws, after clearing a space of weeds and stones, have found the soft, dark turf underneath.

When this wall was finished, and the outside double-fenced, with a turf-wall raised up close to it, I persuaded myself that if any people were to come on shore there they would not perceive any thing like a habitation: and it was very well I did so, as may be observed hereafter, upon a very remarkable occasion.

Pleasant the wind's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf whereon we lie.

Fold the green turf aright For the long hours before the morning's light, And say the last Good Night!

" AR'GUS, the turf-writer, was Irwin Willes, who died in 1871.