But when the wild geese heard him laugh, they called outkind o' reprovingly: "Fertile and good land.

Fertile and good land.

The face of the country between Paris and Auxerre is not peculiarly striking; but the soil appears fertile and the road excellent.

This brings us to the last, and historically the most fertile, of the sources of Pragmatism, Psychology.

Moreover, their offspring are fertile.

Few dogs possess the fertile, resourceful brain of the Collie.

A fruitful soil enervates men, when less fertile, it renders them temperate and industrious.

"How gay the habitations that adorn This fertile valley!

"A gentler life spreads round the holy spires; Where'er they rise, the sylvan waste retires, And aëry harvests crown the fertile lea.

The question recurred, with great force, What shall be the destiny of the fertile plains of the Saskatchewan and the Red River of the North?

2. The eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and the valleys of the Saskatchewan and Red River were shown by explorations, conducted under the auspices of the London Geographical Society and the Canadian authorities, to be a district of nearly four hundred thousand square miles, in which a fertile soil, favorable climate, useful and precious minerals, fur-bearing and food-yielding animals, in a word, the most lavish gifts of Nature, con

" Now, about the time that George Washington was thinking of becoming a sailor, some of the rich planters in Virginia began to hear wonderful stories about a fertile region west of the Alleghanies, watered by a noble river, and rich in game and fur-bearing animals.

I must confess that I was deceived at the time, but hearing the merriment which it afforded to the holy commissary and the alguazil, I began to suspect that it originated in the fertile brain of my master, and from that time I ceased to be a child of grace.

From that time until his death at Cannes on September 23, 1870, a brilliant series of plays, essays, novels, and historical and archaeological works poured from his fertile pen.

Have they the exclusive occupation of an extensive and fertile tract of country for the culture of their own crops, and for rearing immense herds of their own cattleand all these held independently of their masters, and regarded by them as inviolable?

the oldest probably on papyrus, and from this we may see that Sekhet-Aaru, i.e., the "Field of Reeds," typified some very fertile region where farming operations could be carried on with ease and success.

The original Sekhet-Aaru was evidently placed here, and we are therefore right in assuming that the fertile fields of this part of the Delta formed the prototype of the Elysian Fields of the Egyptian.

From an elevation of several hundred feet, you look down upon a narrow fertile valley, through which the Thames winds with surpassing loveliness.

In the valleys the soil is extremely fertile, and, favoured by moisture and warmth, its productive power is extraordinary.

In these poor riverside villages, however, where a mere ribbon of land is capable of cultivationwhich, although exceedingly fertile, is constantly liable to be flooded by the uncertain Tarnmen have so little money in their pockets that water is their habitual drink, and when they depart from this rule they make a little dissipation go a very long way.

if so, Monsieur Achille Garay, it will be your task to answer them, and I take it that you have a fertile mind.

lying on their table; or, perhaps, they give expression to their feelings, by way of inducing the public to suppose that their fertile imaginations conceived something far grander than this most glorious work of Nature.

All these, and the rapids above, and the whirlpool below, and the four-and-a-half million horse-power of the Falls, have been so often described by abler pens and more fertile imaginations, that the effort would be a failure and the result a bore.

The writer further says that, when developed into a confirmed habit, it is fertile in provoking nervous maladies.

The dark walls of Ostend soon vanished and we were whirled rapidly over a country perfectly level, but highly fertile and well cultivated.