Yale Record. ~Evidence.~ Of all the lines that volumes fill, Since Aesop first his fables told, The wisest is the proverb old, That every Jack must have his Jill.

Well, it was like this, my dear Agraféna Kondrátyevna: it isn't as if it were a proverb, in a kind of fable, but a real occurrence.

Major Beamish has accommodated military tactics to the nursery in a pleasant little sketch; and the proverb of Much Coin Much Care, by Mrs. R.S. Jameson is a little farce for the same stage.

Remember also an Arabian proverb which tells us that on the tree of silence there hangs its fruit, which is peace.

They soon discover the truth of the Arabian proverb: Joke with a slave, and he'll show you his heels.

There is nothing to prevent those who live on the common labor of their hands from treating their earnings in that way if they like; because their kind of skill is not likely to disappear, or, if it does, it can be replaced by that of their fellow-workmen; morever, the kind of work they do is always in demand; so that what the proverb says is quite true, a useful trade is a mine of gold.

Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his heels, is an excellent Arabian proverb; nor ought we to despise what Horace says,

Therefore Minus malum, [6205]a less mischief, Nevisanus holds, dissimulare, to be [6206]Cunarum emptor, a buyer of cradles, as the proverb is, than to be too solicitous.

In the other extreme some are too liberal, as the proverb is, Turdus malum sibi cacat, they make a rod for their own tails, as Candaules did to Gyges in Herodotus, commend his wife's beauty himself, and besides would needs have him see her naked.

In the mean time,dii talem terris avertite pestem, [6301]as the proverb is, from heresy, jealousy and frenzy, good Lord deliver us.

He quotes the proverba proverb which reveals a whole history"So many slaves, so many foes," and proves that they are not foes, but that men made them so; whereas, when kindly treated, when considerately addressed, they would be silent, even under torture, rather than speak to their master's disadvantage.

The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the sturdy pioneers who braved hardship and ridicule in order to obtain a foothold in this promised land, have, in five or six years, completely changed the appearance of the country.

It is a proverb, that he who is a fool at forty will be a fool at fourscore; yet Mr. Cushing, who is certainly no fool, had been blind to the beauties of Original Democracy for a year or two beyond that alliterative era.

Yet the proverb holds good with the stock-jobber.

Taurea, bold in words more than in reality, said, "Never be the ass in the ditch;" an expression which from this circumstance became a common proverb among rustics.

Ray gives the proverb, "Bush natural, more hair than wit.

Beauty is the appanage of the Saxon women, hence the proverb in rhyme: Darauf bin ich gegangen nach Sachsen, Wo die schönen Mädchen auf den Baümen wachsen.

He begins thus: "Occasionally, having to retire into the country more conveniently and uninterruptedly to finish some business, on a particular holiday, as I was walking I came to a neighbouring village, where the greater part of the old and young men were assembled, in groups of separate ages, for, according to the proverb, 'Each seeks his like.'

[Illustration: Fig. 86.Stall of Carved Wood (Fifteenth Century), representing the Proverb, "Margaritas ante Porcos," "Throwing Pearls before Swine," from Rouen Cathedral.]

This was the origin of the proverb which described a cheat as "a dealer in goat by halves.

There was an old proverb, "Who eats the king's goose returns the feathers in a hundred years."

Hares were preferred to rabbits, provided they were young; for an old French proverb says, "An old hare and an old goose are food for the devil.

For though he was good-natured, he was very shiftless, and it was, as our national proverb says, "like pulling teeth" to teach him.

How Effie got entangled with this youth we have no means of knowing, so we must be contented with the Scotch proverb "Tell me where the flea may bite,

But, as it frequently happens in life that the proverb, "man proposes and God disposes," proves true, such was the case in the present instanceinstead of the temples, I saw a tiger-hunt.

All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.

"The adage of the early bird, My soul from infancy has stirred, And since the worm I sorely need I'll practise, now, that thrifty creed.

Often have I thought of that excellent old adage; He that eats the king's goose, shall be choked with his feathers.

the adage must be verified That beggars mounted run their horse to death.

"Laugh and grow fat," is an old adage; and Sterne tells us, that every time a man laughs, he adds something to his life.

The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the sturdy pioneers who braved hardship and ridicule in order to obtain a foothold in this promised land, have, in five or six years, completely changed the appearance of the country.

Piero's character and career again prove the truth of the adage: "Ability rarely runs in two successive generations."

From this came the adage, 'The soup in the great pot and the dainties in the hotch-potch.'

According to a popular adage, garlic was the medicine (thériaque) of peasants; town-people for a long time greatly appreciated aillée, which was a sauce made of garlic, and sold ready prepared in the streets of Paris.

But the adage about the will and the way is of such wondrous universality, that one successful effort seems as nothing in the diversity of man's inventions; and so it turned out to be comparatively easy to get Janet out one evening for the reason that her husband did not feel very well, and would like his supper the better for a walk along the edge of the loch, in which, if it was her pleasure, she would not refuse to accompany him.

Mr. Bentham is one of those persons who verify the old adage, that "A prophet has no honour, except out of his own country."

Pesquiera was well aware of the adage that "dead men tell no tales."

Cast off God's gift of manhood, And, like the dog in the adage, drop the true bone With snapping at the sham one in the water?

Forgetting the old adage about selling the skin of the bear while the animal was still alive, it was further agreed that Colaba, after capture, was to be the property of Portugal, while Gheriah was to be handed over to the English.

So hardy, great, and strong, That after of that name it to an adage grew, If any man himself adventurous happed to shew, "Bold Beauchamp" men him termed, if none so bold as he.

The old adage says that a man cannot burn the candle at both ends; like most proverbs, it is only partially true, for often the hardest worker is the man who enters with most zest into his recreations, and this was emphatically the case with Mr. Dodgson.

In their domestic industry the Massachusetts people found by experience that "many hands make light work, many hands make a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all"; and they were shrewd enough to apply the adage in keeping the scale of their industrial units within the frugal requirements of their lives.

"There is much truth in the old adage that fire is a better servant than master."Id., ib., p. 128.

"There is much truth in the old adage, that fire is a better servant than master."Id.

If this be so, we must accept our fate and enlarge the adage that 'poets are born, not made,' and include Spiritualists.

" The popular adage said: "To bear what you think you cannot bear is really to bear."

Farwell old Adage, keep your nose warm, the Rheum will make it horn else

Farewell old Adage, I hope to see the Boys make Potguns on thee.

The wisdom of such legislation is questionable, as the old adage runs: "A lie will travel around the world while the truth is putting on its boots"; moreover, it is questionable whether they are not class legislation in extending to a certain form of business or a certain trade a protection which is not extended to others.

The adage, "God sends meat, and the devil sends cooks," must surely be of native parentage, for of no country is it so true as of our own.