The water is drawn by small channels from the stream to each individual tree, around the stalk and root of which a little basin is made and fenced round with clay, so that the water, when received, is detained there until it soaks into the earth.

Men employed coopering the flour-casks, fencing the garden, completing the store, and general camp duties.

He helped him fence his land; he helped him plant his corn.

Mr. Dewar preached the action-sermon, after which Mr. M.S. fenced the tables, and addressed us, and served the first table.

The snow recommences; The buried fences Mark no longer The road o'er the plain; While through the meadows, Like fearful shadows, Slowly passes A funeral train.

" "He's fencing a large tract, Williama very large tract.

The correct version, as I have heard it from the professor himself, is this: Having employed the village carpenter to put a frame round a dial at the manse of Cults, where he was a minister, he received from the man a bill to the following effect:'To fencing the deil, 5s.

So they fenced a little with one another. 'Have you bed and victuals for a plain country man and his boy?' says Elzevir.

Mr. Lincoln himself (though writing in the third person) says: "Here they built a log cabin, into which they removed, and made sufficient of rails to fence ten acres of ground, fenced and broke the ground, and raised a crop of sown corn upon it the same year.

Who's been fencing up all Montana south uh the creek, then?"

Jealous of her children's honour, she fenced her three daughters around with precautions which rendered their lives irksome to themselves and troublesome to all who were about them.

I cried, 'Do they fence the devil in a corral?' "'Oh, ay,' said the fellow, 'he's a devil, right enough.

But as there are many hogs and dogs roaming at large through their villages, they are very careful to fence their dwellings round with wicker work, to preserve them from the depredations of these animals; and as the houses are extremely low, they have very much the appearance of bird cages or rabbit hutches.

16 No Peasant had pin'd at his lot, Tho' new fences the lone Heath enclose: For, alas!

In fencing exercises every FEINT should at first be parried.

Abraham by this time had attained the unusual stature of 6 feet 4 inches, and was of great muscular strength; joined with his father in building his cabin, clearing the field, and splitting the rails for fencing the farm.

Sacred, blood-stained walls, your peaceful front Sheltered the fateful fires of Lexington; Builded to fence green fields and keep the herds at pasture, Ye became the frowning breastworks of stern battle; Lowly boundaries of the freeman’s farm, Ye grew the rampart of a land at war; And still ye cross the centuries Between the ages of monarchs and the age When farmers in their fields are kings.

I was no military man; I knew nothing of scientific war, but I was sure that time had knelled the doom of our poor linecondemned to attack behind stone fences the flower of the Army of the Potomac protected by two hundred guns.

310 This was the way our wise Redeemer chose (Who sure could all things for the best dispose), To fence his fold from their encroaching foes.

Heavy freshets from the mountains that swelled their rushing brooks into annual torrents, and snow-drifts that covered five-rail fences a foot above the posts and blocked up the turnpike-road for weeks, caused this congregation fully to appreciate Parson Manners's favorite hymns, "There is a land of pure delight," and "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand.

"WellI can fence a littleand talk French; we are in Paris winters, you know.

But here I was forced to interpose as a mediator, by obliging the two Englishmen not to hurt them, being naked & unarmed, and that the other three should make them restitution, by building their two huts, and fencing their ground in the same manner as it was before.

They go as far as they can, or dare, toward the tillable lands in their own boulder fenced gulliesbut how much farther in the man-made waterways.

It was apparent from an examination of these applications that the purpose of the applicants was to enclose with fences their holdings, and charge visitors an admission fee.

A wife can make no greater mistake than trying to fence her husband about and obtruding high walls between him and the women he admires.