Putting your nose to the grindstone isn't nice at any time, but it's awful when the gal children turn.

Rude as these conditions of humanity may seem, they are matched in modern England, even at a very recent date, if we may credit a well-known story: A rustic shopkeeper in a remote district, being unable to read or write, contrived to keep his accounts by picture-writing, and charged his customer, the miller, with a cheese instead of a grindstone, from having omitted to mark a hole in the centre.

His turf roof was falling to pieces already, and the steps to the kitchen were rotten with damp; a grindstone lay on the ground, and the cart was still left uncovered in the open.

When the children rolled his grindstone about for play, he was kind and indulgent, and would even help them to roll it himself.

And suddenly he raises his voice and declares to all present: "Seeing as we've an auction holding anyhow, and I've troubled the Lensmand all this way, I'm willing to sell what I've got here on the place: the cart, live stock, a pitchfork, a grindstone.

When the dampers are very large, say 3 feet or over, they should be set on rollers, like common grindstone rollers; the regulator should be attached directly to the damper, the length of the pipe connecting the regulator with the boiler being of no account.

Some persons add about half an ounce of flowers of brimstone to the above proportions, and a little sludge from the grindstone trough.

But enforced silence and the grindstone of conscious helplessness will sharpen the dullest wit.

I am kept, to use a homely expression, with my nose pretty close to the grindstone; in other words, am kept low and little.

The golden grindstone.

Emma H. Lenski (W), Gerhard E. Lenski, Oscar Lenski, Mrs. William Ferne, Mrs. Arthur Covey & Mrs. John Doermann (C); 13Jul62; R298121. LENT, HENRY B. Grindstone farm.

Between Hercules's jaws it was like grain under the miller's grindstone.

The Grindstone Buttes lay about a mile ahead of us.

I knew of boys who ground captured birds to death on a grindstone.

"I must bring her nose to the grindstone," was the manner in which she would have probably expressed her thoughts to herself.

Consequently Florence's nose was brought to the grindstone, and the operation made her miserable.

I fancy Worth spoke out plainly to that maid of Cecil's, Grindstone; but she only looks bitter at me, says she can attend to her mistress, and has kept me out of the room all day.

He passed into his dressing-room, and thus to the open door of the room where he heard his wife's voice; and as Mrs. Grindstone came forward to warn him off, he said, "She is awake.

" "Mr. Poynsett cannot stay, ma'am," said Grindstone, in a persuasive tone.

His sobs brought out Mrs. Grindstone into the gallery, to insist, with some asperity, that there should be no noise to awaken her mistress, who was in a sweet sleep.

" "She must be left to me, sir, or I cannot be answerable for the consequences," was the stiff reply, wherewith Mrs. Grindstone retreated into her castle.

She was very weak, but recovering, and Grindstone, whom he had seen and talked with, was as strenuous in deprecating any excitement as he was nervous about it.

I follow the judgment of her faithful Grindstone.

Rosamond had just seen her off in the pony carriage, and was on the way up-stairs, when she stumbled on a little council, consisting of Dr. Worth, Mr. Charnock, and Grindstone, all in the gallery.

You see, Lady Rosamond, Mrs. Grindstone, whose care I must say has been devoted, has hitherto staved off the sad question from poor young Mrs. Poynsett, until now it is no longer possible, and she is becoming so excited, that" Cecil's bell rang sharply.