You run across to Tom Brooke's house and fetch that measuring-rod he used to lay out his new byre.

They had descended some twenty feet from the level of the byre, and they were standing now in a square chamber cut out of the soft tufa.

The heathen pilled and wasted, but gathered neither corn into barns nor cattle within the byre.

It seems the art of one who walked through the world of things endowed with the senses of a god, and able, with that perfection of effort that looks as if it were effortless, to fashion his experience into incorruptible song; whether it be the dance of flies round a byre at milking-time, or a forest-fire on the mountains at night.

Outside, in Petersham Park, was a picturesque thatched byre where the cows were milked.

And in every byre the oxen and the kine answered the strange sweet cadences with their lowing, and the great stone oxen lowed back to their kin of the meadow through the deep notes of the joy-peal.

Who needs music, however fitting and beautiful the accustomed air may happen to be, to "Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch," or "The Bride cam' out o' the byre," or either of the casts of "The Flowers of the Forest," or to "Auld Lang Syne" itself?

"You are mad," replied the pastor; but he went himself to the byre to see what was there.

Or I could be a splendid Squire And watch the harvest grow, Could urge the reaper to perspire And put the cattle in the byre (If that is where they go), And every morning do the rounds Of my immense ancestral grounds With six or seven faithful hounds, And say, "It looks like snow.

I learned them from little Sophie, at Wilna, and they meant: 'If the night is fine we shall meet under the oak tree, but if it rains we shall meet in the byre.'

' One or two officers spoke to me with an air of authority, but I shook my head and smiled, and said, 'If the night is fine we shall meet under the oak tree, but if it rains we shall meet in the byre,' at which they shrugged their shoulders and gave the matter up.

Ay my poor boy, that doth he: I saw them yesterday Down by the byre; and, trust me, loving enough were they.

And now the sun wheeled round his westering car And led still evening on: from every field Came thronging the fat flocks to bield and byre.

In the centre there is a grey-stoned slate-roofed house with a byre behind it, and "1703" scrawled in stonework over the lintel of the door.

I'll say, and, when we reach Boar's Hill, I'll fill my lungs with heaven's own air And pay the cabman twice his fare, Then, looking far and looking nigh, Bare-headed and with hand on high, "Hear ye," I'll cry, "the vow I make, Familiar sprites of byre and brake, J'y suis, j'y reste.

ye 'oo was with yo laasst Soonda oop t' feald in t' girt byre.

She would crouch on a heap of corn-sacks, wrapped in a fur coat, and watch him at his work in the stable and the cow-byre.

You can hear the soft sound of grass pulled by the lips of unnumbered browsing sheep behind the hedgerow, or the cry of farmyard fowls from the byre below, the puffing of the steam-plough on the sloping fallow, the far-off railway whistle across the wide valley.

Another glow than sunset's fire Has filled the West with light, Where field and garner, barn and byre Are blazing through the night.

Yet few people cared to be caught eavesdropping at the byre; wise folk contented themselves with setting a good store of fodder in the manger, then shut the door, and left the animals to their ruminations.

A farmer of Vecoux once hid in a corner of the byre to overhear the edifying talk of the beasts.

On a misty or rainy day a number of children will shut themselves up in a stable or byre and proceed to make fire for the purpose of improving the weather.

One chief thing ordered was to burn to death a pig, and sprinkle the ashes over the byre and other farm buildings.

The Scotch Highlanders thought that a witch could destroy the whole of a farmer's live stock by hiding a small bag, stuffed with charms, in a cleft of the stable or byre (W. Grant Stewart, The Popular superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1823, pp.

Long ere heat of noon, 20 From byre or field the kine were brought; the sheep Are penned in cotes; the chaffering is begun.