"Well, that's varra queer; for I've bin a lang time away from my awn country.

Her look became anxious, and her face pale; then the eyes brightened, and a blush that might well be likened to the tints with which the approach of dawn illumines the sky, suffused her cheeks, as, holding the hair to the light, the long ringlets dropped at length, and she recognised one of those beautiful tresses, of which so many were falling at that very moment, in rich profusion around her awn lovely face.

[Fr.], porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed^, cleavers, clivers^, goose, grass, hairif^, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel^, heckle.

The flowers are small and inconspicuous, but the feathery nature of the flower clusters, occasioned by the transformation of the pedicels and hairs into fluffy awns, renders this Sumach one of the most curious and attractive of hardy shrubs.

I mane, let the good worruk go awn!" "Now watch for the evening papers," said young Phil Stacey exultantly.

Or myek me dinner an' tea It's startin' te chow its thumb, The poor thing wants its tit, Aw wish yor muther wad cum." 'What a selfish world this is, Thor's nowt mair se than man; He laffs at wummin's toil, And winnet nurse his awn; It's startin' te cry agyen, Aw see tuts throo its gum, Maw little bit pet, dinnet fret, Aw wish yor muther wad cum.

The traveller's joy gleams in the September sunlight as the feathery awns lengthen on its seed vessels.

Misteh Jawnson, an' go 'long by awn turrer side de road.'

"See here, Uncle, if you want me to fix that fence you'd bettuh come awn out

what L'tenant Greenfeel got awn.

"Then the girl put the rice into the mortar, and very gracefully moving the pestle up and down, separated the rice thoroughly from the remaining particles of husk and awns; which she carefully winnowed away.

E's a nice woon t' taalk o' marryin', whan 'is awn wife caan't live wi' 'im, nor 'is awn daughter, neither.

E's a nice woon t' taalk o' marryin', whan 'is awn wife caan't live wi' 'im, nor 'is awn daughter, neither.

Look yoI could have a hole knocked through t' back wall o' t' kitchen and a winder put thereand roon oop a wooden partition and make a passage for yo t' goa to yore awn plaace, soa's Maaggie'll not bae in yore road.

" "Ef he doos, caann't I walk in my awn fealds wi' my awn sweetheart?"

" "Ef he doos, caann't I walk in my awn fealds wi' my awn sweetheart?"

An' yo' need n' aassk mae t' marry yore daughter(Theretheremy awn laass)" "You are not going to be asked," said Gwenda.

Yo're afraid o' mae, Ally, because yo've 'eard I haven't always been as sober as I might bae; but yo're nat 'aalf as afraid o' mae, droonk or sober, as yo' are of yore awn faather.

As usual, the whole party on the bank set up a shout when they recognized Shaw-nee-aw-kee, "Ee-awn-chee-wee-rah, Hee-nee-kar-ray-kay-noo.

" "C'm-awn, yuh lazy old skate!

"Go-awn off, before I take yuh all to pieces," he urged wearily, already regretting the unjustifiable waste of good beer.

One species of Barley-grass, which grows very commonly in our sea-marshes, the Hordeum maritimum, is apt to render cattle diseased in the mouth, from chewing the seeds, which are armed with a strong bristly awn not dissimilar to the spike of this grass.

She used to say, "Lawd, chile, you don't know how soovin' it is to jest bust out awn 'casions lake dese!" Happy negroes!

While wading about among the tall grass, the long sharp awns of the prevailing kind, an Anthistiria, were more annoying than can be described, having forced their way in hundreds through my thin clothing, causing an annoying and painful irritation; to which, the bites of clouds of mosquitoes in a mangrove swamp which I had entered in chase of some bowerbirds, added a finishing touch, as if to test the powers of human endurance.

Go awn, start the damn Lizzie an' let's go.