" "That's all very well," he grumbled, "but supposing people come here and excite me?" "Disregard them," said I, "and read Whitaker's Almanack."

"I heard you advising my father to read Whitaker's Almanack," she said.

Last comes what is by general consent acknowledged to be one of the most valuable contributions ever made to the literature of proverbs, Franklin's summary of the maxims in Poor Richard's Almanack.

Now when such stuff as this, as sometimes it is, is vented in a poor parish, where people can scarce tell, what day of the month it is by the Almanack?

When Sacks and Canaries," he continues, "were brought in first amongst us, they were used to be drunk in aqua vitae measures, and 'twas held fit only for those to drink who were used to carry their legs in their hands, their eyes upon their noses, and an almanack in their bones; but now they go down every one's throat, both young and old, like milk.

Here comes the moral Almanack of years The prim old maid, and, by her side, her Niece, Full of bewitching beauty, health, and love.

We read the other day that Schiller's "History of the German War," was originally published in Damen Almanacha Lady's Almanack!

Every reader of taste knows that "glance from earth to heaven" which pervades the Georgics throughout, and that poetical almanack which the poet has made use of for pointing out the various seasons for the different operations of husbandry.

Felicia M. Baillieu & Penn M. Doane (C); 30Apr56; R171339-171342. MORROW (WILLIAM) & CO., INC. Morrow's almanack for the year of our Lord 1929.

SEE Morrow's almanack.

MORROW'S ALMANACK FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1929.

Morrow's almanack for the year of our Lord 1929.

SEE Morrow's almanack.

The Williamsburg calendar for engagements & almanack for the year of Our Lord, 1943.

HODGSON, EMMA D. Hagerstown town and country almanack.

FISHER, EMILY K. SEE Hagerstown town and country almanack, 1928.

SEE Morrow's almanack for the year of Our Lord 1928.

(In Jake and Lena almanack, by Cal De Voll) © 23Dec33; AA137899. Jack Scholl, Max Rich & Bradford Browne (A); 15Feb61; R271154.

(In Jake and Lena almanack, by Cal De Voll)

(In Jake and Lena almanack, by Cal De Voll)

(In Jake and Lena almanack, by Cal De Voll)

(In Jake and Lena almanack, by Cal De Voll) © 29Dec33; AA137899.

An almanack, with a pleasantry on the Convention, or a couplet in behalf of royalism, is handed mysteriously through half a town, and a brochure [A pamphlet.] of higher pretensions, though on the same principles, is the very bonne bouche of our political gourmands.

Poor Richard's Almanack gives it twice, as "the foot of a master is the best manure" and "the eye of a master will do more work than both his hands."

I do hope that it is unnecessary for me to say, that sowing according to the moon is wholly absurd and ridiculous; and that it arose solely out of the circumstance, that our forefathers, who could not read, had neither almanack nor calendar to guide them, and who counted by moons and festivals, instead of by months, and days of months.