They had bathed and primped, and now they lay and gulped half-rotten pond-weed and water-clover.

The kind old man each morning comes here to weed the ground, He clears the shrine of thistles and burrs that grow around.

Not a weed was to be found in any of the beds; the gooseberry and currant-bushes had evidently been pruned with much care and attention, and were loaded with fine ripe fruit.

He is striding through Bangor streets now, beside the summer sea, from which fresh scents of shore-weed greet him.

Past the thrifty husbandman himself, as he guides the two milch-kine in his tiny plough, and stops at the furrow's end, to greet you with the hearty German smile and bow; while the little fair-haired maiden, walking beneath the shade of standard cherries, walnuts, and pears, all grey with fruit, fills the cows' mouths with chicory, and wild carnations, and pink saintfoin, and many a fragrant weed which richer England wastes.

Give me another weed.

There she sat, she knew not how long, listening, listening, like a hunted hare; her whole faculties concentrated in the one sense of hearing; her eyes wandering vacantly over the black saws of rock, and glistening oar-weed beds, and bright phosphoric sea.

The reason for this exemption from harm was this: In those times the Indians made use of the Pazhikewash, or buffalo-weed, which is still used by some of them to this day, especially on war excursions.

There wasn't a thing that was in good taste to show, but just a good photograph of the minister that married them,and a beautiful little wreath of sea-weed, that one of her Sunday-school scholars made for her.

So, when Miss Lucinda indued herself with her brown linen sack and sun-bonnet to go and weed her carrot-patch, she was arrested on the way by a loud grunting and scrambling in Piggy's quarter, and found to her distress that he had contrived to knock off the upper board from his pen.

In May there is a good deal of weed-cutting to be done on a trout stream.

There is a certain amount of management required in weed-cutting.

If much weed is left uncut, the millers grumble; if you cut them bare, there are no homes left for the fish.

In weed-cutting by hand, instead of with the long knives, it is wonderful how many trout get cut by the scythes.

A rat will bolt out of his hole, dive half way across the stream, then, taking advantage of the tiniest bit of weed, he will come up to the surface, poke his nose out of the water and watch you intently.

The ubiquitous dandelion is likewise golden; then we have birdsfoot trefoil, ragwort, agrimony, silver-weed, celandine, tormentil, yellow iris, St. John's wort, and a host of other flowers of the same hue.

Near the banks we passed over masses of watercress, and what might be likened to floating fields of lilies and pond-weed.

'In a year or two it will have drifted back to the original wilderness, to briar and weed,' he said to himself; and he dwelt on his love of this tiny plot of ground, with a wide path running down the centre, flower borders on each side, and a narrow path round the garden beside the hedge.

"One year's seed, seven years' weed."

There he saw a crab and a lobster sitting upon a bunch of sea-weed in the sunshine.

"Ah! a Southerner!" said I. "Pray, allow the harmless weed to serve as a token of amity between our respective sections.

"Some wave the hand, and some begin to cry, Some take a weed, and nodding, say good-bye.

The weed brought by the gulf stream, floated aroundsome branches we fished up, were full of beautiful little shells.

"Sprung the rank weed, and thrived with large increase.

SEE Weed, Clarence Moores.