But if the grass grow in January, the husbandman is recommended to "lock his grain in the granary," while a further proverb informs us that: "On Candlemas Day if the thorns hang a drop, You are sure of a good pea crop.

The mouse has given us numerous names, such as mouse-ear (Hieracium pilosella), mouse-grass (Aira caryophyllea), mouse-ear scorpion-grass (Myosotis palustris), mouse-tail (Myosurus minimus), and mouse-pea.

" In Scotland, one of the popular names of the Angelica sylvestris is "aik-skeiters," or "hear-skeiters," because children shoot oats through the hollow stems, as peas are shot through a pea-shooter.

One of the names of the heath-pea (Lathyrus macrorrhizus) is liquory-knots, and school-boys in Berwickshire so call them, for when dried their taste is not unlike that of the real liquorice.

she answered, "A shoeless pea."

It is valuable as a stomachic and antispasmodic; on which account it is generally served at table with pea-soup.

The liquor in which the meat has been boiled may be easily converted into a very excellent pea-soup.

The pot-liquor should be saved, and converted into pea-soup; and the outside slices, which are generally hard, and of an uninviting appearance, may be out off before being sent to table, and potted.

Use the mixture night and morning, by placing a piece of the size of a pea in the corner of the eye affected, only to be used in cases of chronic or long-standing inflammation of the organ, or its lids.

STYE IN THE EYE.Styes are little abscesses which form between the roots of the eyelashes, and are rarely larger than a small pea.

The regimental butcher had clung to his meat and the implements of his trade until the last; and when we found the roads littered with carcases of oxen, sacks of pea flour and sausage machines, we knew that we would shortly find the General's loot beside the hedge.

He wore a cap, his hat having been left behind in the barricade where he had fought: and he had replaced his bullet-pierced overcoat, which was made of Belleisle cloth, by a pea-jacket bought at a slop-shop.

The prisoner's counsel had made for him a very poor and absurd defence, in which, over and over again, he had reiterated that one pea was very like another pea, and that he would be a bold man who would swear to the identity of two peas.

The prisoner's counsel had made for him a very poor and absurd defence, in which, over and over again, he had reiterated that one pea was very like another pea, and that he would be a bold man who would swear to the identity of two peas.

For the first half-mile, on entering the plain or tableland, the ground was stony and covered with stunted acacia, but it very quickly changed into a rich clayey loam, yielding a splendid crop of kangaroo and other grasses, melons, and small white convolvulus, yielding a round black seed the size of a pea, which we found scattered over nearly the whole surface of the plain for miles together.

You must not suppose the stream to be clear like the Aar, for it is as thick as pea-soup, and about the same colour, being in fact a river of trass in solution.

But the bill of fare at a franklin's feast would be deemed anything but poor, even in our times,"bacon and pea-soup, oysters, fish, stewed beef, chickens, capons, roast goose, pig, veal, lamb, kid, pigeon, with custard, apples and pears, cheese and spiced cakes."

THE HOBBY-HORSE I had a little hobby-horse, And it was dapple gray; Its head was made of pea-straw, Its tail was made of hay.

The separate blossoms are shaped like those of the pea and bean; they hang in long clusters somewhat resembling bunches of grapes.

" "I should think it ought to belong to the pea family," said Malcolm, "if the flowers are shaped like pea-blossoms.

" "I should think it ought to belong to the pea family," said Malcolm, "if the flowers are shaped like pea-blossoms.

" "So it does," replied Miss Harson"or, rather, to the bean family, of which the pea is a member, on account of its blossoms; but the acacia, like many others, is a brother, or sister, on account of its leaves as well as its blossoms.

" "I like calling the flowers 'butterfly-shaped,'" said Clara, "because that is just what the pea and bean-blossoms look like; though Kitty calls 'em 'little ladies in hoods.'

I. Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks!

Meanwhile Brigade Majors and Adjutants, holding a stumpy pencil in one hand and a burning brow in the other, are composing Operation Orders which shall effect the relief, without (1) Leaving some detailthe bombers, or the snipers, or the sock-driers, or the pea-soup expertsunrelieved altogether.

He hired boys to help him to look for them, beggaring himself of allies and marbles, even giving away his Lucky Shooter, a mottled pee-wee, to a lynx-eyed young hunter who claimed to be able to see in the dark.

"Isn't Pee-wee fog horn enough?"

Pee-wee shouted back, "Two; what do you think we are, quadrupeds?"

I guess maybe Captain Savage liked Pee-wee.

Anyway, he called for Pee-wee and me to go up in the pilot house, and it was fine to watch him steer and pull the rope that made the whistle blow, Jiminety, didn't we jump the first time we heard it!

Then he'd look awful funny like, at Pee-wee.

Did you ever eat those? Pee-wee was quiet for an hour munching one.

" "Go ahead, throw him one," Grove said to Pee-wee.

But I guess Pee-wee didn't have any jawbreakers to spare.

Pee-wee blurted out.

" "Nowengtgtclddown," Pee-wee said, munching away on a jaw breaker.

That was just to jolly Pee-wee.

"You think you're smart talking about recent rains, don't you?" Pee-wee shouted.

I reckon little Pee-wee ain't growed at all.

Hain't you never goin' ter grow, Pee-wee?

Pee-wee shouted.

" We were just starting to jolly Pee-wee, because that's our favorite indoor sport, when somebody said, "There's one of the gold dust twins out; he must be crazy.

Pee-wee piped out.

Pee-wee yelled.

And he gave Pee-wee an awful funny look.

I could see Westy and Pee-wee and a couple of Portland scouts in one of the boats.

Pee-eye-em had also been successful in securing his favourite hunter: but nearly every other horse belonging to the camp had broken loose and joined the whirlwind gallop.

The names of the letters, as now commonly spoken and written in English, are A, Bee, Cee, Dee, E, Eff, Gee, Aitch, I, Jay, Kay, Ell, Em, En, O, Pee, Kue, Ar, Ess, Tee, U, Vee, Double-u, Ex, Wy, Zee.

Thus: (if we adopt the names now most generally used in English schools:) A, Aes; Bee, Bees; Cee, Cees; Dee, Dees; E, Ees; Eff, Effs; Gee, Gees; Aitch, Aitches; I, Ies; Jay, Jays; Kay, Kays; Ell, Ells; Em, Ems; En, Ens; O, Oes; Pee, Pees; Kue, Kues; Ar, Ars; Ess, Esses; Tee, Tees; U, Ues; Vee, Vees; Double-u, Double-ues; Ex, Exes; Wy, Wies; Zee, Zees. OBS.

[Hebrew: pe] Pe, Pee, a lip, or mouth; [Hebrew: tsadi] Tzaddi, or Tsadhe, Tee-zee, (i. e. tz, or ts,) a hunter's pole; [Hebrew: qof] Koph, Kue, or Kay, an ape; [Hebrew: resh] Resch, or Resh, Ar, a head; [Hebrew: shin] Schin, or Sin, Ess-aitch, or Ess, a tooth; [Hebrew: tav] Tau, or Thau, Tee, or Tee-aitch, a cross, or mark.