" "Suppose, then, it had been a crab-apple, and the baby had still said 'um, um,' what would it then have meant?" "Plainly this: 'that is not a nice apple, and I would not like to have any.'" "That is perfectly satisfactory," said Ralph;"'um, um,' expresses either the desire to possess a sweet apple, or the objection to a sour one.

With these words, Mr. Roundjacket executed a pirouette upon his rheumatic leg, which caused him to fall back in his chair, making the most extraordinary faces, which we can compare to nothing but the contortions of a child who bites a crab-apple by mistake.

Down the field, toward the corner, cutting in sharply, as though a door opened (or a page turned to another lyric), came the cloying, sweet fragrance of wild crab-apple blossoms, almost tropical in their richness, and below that, as I came to my work, the thin acrid smell of the marsh, the place of the rushes and the flags and the frogs.

Here, likewise, I found one tiny crab-apple shrub, with a few blossoms, exquisitely tinted with rose-color, and most exquisitely fragrant.

He was thinking, perhaps, of Harper's Ferry and of John Brown hanging on the crab-apple tree, while his soul went marching on.

An entire black and shrivelled Crab-Apple has been recovered from their stores.

Wilder still, as I have said, there grows elsewhere in this country a native and aboriginal Crab-Apple, Malus coronaria, "whose nature has not yet been modified by cultivation."

" I never saw the Crab-Apple till May, 1861.

At first I thought it some variety of thorn; but it was not long before the truth flashed on me, that this was my long-sought Crab-Apple.

On arriving at St. Anthony's Falls, I was sorry to be told that I was too far north for the Crab-Apple.

The stock of the crab-apple can be made to bear quinces, and a mango tree that is scarcely worth the ground it occupies, can be made to yield fruit which will fetch four annas a piece!

But the best pleasure such a fruit can yield, Is to be gathered in the open field; If only as an article of food, Cherry or crab-apple are quite as good; And, for occasions of festivity, West India sweetmeats you had better buy." Thus, such a dish of homely sweets as these In neither way may chance the taste to please.

For a deep, good soil and a sheltered situation the standard form grafted on the Crab-apple is generally considered to be the most profitable.

" "Well, there's a Hummingbird's nest in our crab-apple tree, and we own the biggest Swallow chimney there is in the county!

I seldom pass a crab-apple tree without tasting its fruit, or allow myself to pass a mountain stream without drinking.

Minorkey, as he sat by his daughter, inveighed, in an earnest crab-apple voice, against Grahamism.

He said, 'For Heaven's sake, turn red or blue, Sir Lupus, for if you don't we'll hang you to a crab-apple and chance the color.'

245-9 Cooking utensils, great value of, 222 lists of, 223-7 Cooper, Joseph, 72-3 Copley, Esther, 164 Copper, art of tinning, 217 Cornish pasty, 185 Coryat, Thomas, 222 Court, the ancient, 231 Cows, 8-9 Crab-apple sauce, 215 Creams, 123-4 Cromwell, Oliver, 73-5 his favourite dishes, ibid.

They shot under the scour of a steep bank covered with thorns and crab-apple trees and hummocks of sombre grass.

Another way to fill this cake is to take some crab-apple jelly or apple marmalade and thin it with a little brandy.

BAKED CRAB-APPLE PRESERVES Wash, wipe and remove the blossom ends of one-half peck of perfect red Siberian crab-apples.

CRAB-APPLE JELLY Take eight quarts of Siberian crab-apples, cut up in pieces, leaving in the seeds, and do not pare.

JELLIES AND PRESERVES General Remarks Jelly GlassesTo Cover Apple Jelly Blackberry Jelly Crab-apple Jelly Cranberry Jelly Currant Jelly Grape Jelly Neapolitan Jelly Quince Jelly Raspberry Jelly Raspberry and Currant Jelly Strawberry Jelly

They are edible and sweet though not without a trace of bitterness, resembling the fruit of crab-apple trees.

There is a demand for them occasionally, and people won't put up with that excellent one taken under the crab-apple tree any longer.