ORIGIN OF CELERY.In the marshes and ditches of this country there is to be found a very common plant, known by the name of Smallage.

There were bumps in the orchard road where the irrigation ditches crossed.

But these broad fields, methinks, are not so broad That they may keep me forth of narrow ditches.

Deep water-worn ditches ran parallel on either side.

As a matter of course, captain Willoughby was perfectly familiar with all the lanes, ditches, bridges and fields of his beautiful possessions.

Still, there were two or three large open ditches, to collect the water that came down the adjacent mountains or bubbled up from springs near the margin of the woods Across these ditches the roads led, by bridges, and the whole valley was laid out, in this manner, equally with a view to convenience and rural beauty.

Still, there were two or three large open ditches, to collect the water that came down the adjacent mountains or bubbled up from springs near the margin of the woods Across these ditches the roads led, by bridges, and the whole valley was laid out, in this manner, equally with a view to convenience and rural beauty.

"I am not," said Jack, "but I have a good stick, and whenever they would stop still or lie down, I give them blows of it, that they jump and leap over walls and stones and ditches; that's the way to make cows give plenty of milk.

And Jack knew they were there, and he got a stick, and began to batter the cows, that they went leaping and jumping over stones, and walls, and ditches.

" They were going along one of those narrow country lanes between farmyards, that are concealed beneath a double row of beech trees at either side of the ditches, and suddenly they found themselves in front of a gate, beside which there was a young spruce fir.

'I am told that it is devilish bad country for cavalryall cut up into hedges and ditches,' said he.

But by changing our oxen, we were enabled in ten days to attain the next station, and through the whole way we only found water in some ditches, dug on purpose, in the vallies, and in two small rivers.

Therefore he contented himself with destroying the fortifications of La Rochelle, filling up its ditches, and changing its government.

[Footnote 27: to make dykes or ditches.]

To what purpose did the ancients feign Pegasus to have wings if he must be confined to the road and stages like a pack-horse, or be forced to be obedient to hedges and ditches?

He set Isak to work making pipes, a whole lot of them, to be laid down where the ground could not well be cut with ditches.

Mounted on my best horse, I deliberately led him across the worst and roughest country, river, and hills, and walls, and ditches, till I finished up with a broken head and he with a broken arm, and a horse that had to be slaughtered.

But that "From putrid ditches we more safely fight, And push our zig-zag parallels by night.

Probably it had been hunting for capybaras or tapirs, and it had gone straight through ponds and long, winding, narrow ditches or bayous, where it must now and then have had to swim for a stroke or two.

"I believe all these little hills and ditches have something to do with forts," said Ailsa.

And now, between a double line of ditches, where a battalion of engineers lay asleep in their blankets, the road entered the pine woods.

The water lies in the ruts and ditches.

After some days' journey the monk passed the frontier, and arrived at a vast space enclosed on one side by a noble river, and on all the others by forests and swamps, hedges and ditches.

They gave the word and the countersign, and they passed by the videttes to the left, along the bank of the swift Azen. Saphir Ali, who had very unwillingly left his bottle, grumbled about the darkness, the underwood, the ditches, and rode swearing by Ammalát's side; but seeing that nobody began the conversation, he resolved to commence it himself.

On the adjoining height of Small Down there is a camp, defended on the E. side by two ditches.