Cockles for tea.

And when he had worked for a while on the message, touching up the skillfully drawn characters with a pencil the mate to that which Victor had used, he sat back and laughed aloud over the result of his labours, with some appreciation of the glow that warms the cockles of the artist's heart when his deft pen has raised a cheque from tens to thousands, and he reviews a good job well done.

Do you never say your prayers?" Sally looked at him, and twisted open a cockle before replying.

"Some o' th' other chaps 'ud be glad enough to take a few of these cockles off you.

Jinny stared at her for a moment in astonishment from under the brim of her fine befeathered hat: "Have ye got any cockles to-day?"

We want as universally as possible the jolly life, men and women warm-blooded and well-aired, acting freely and joyously, gathering life as children gather corn-cockles in corn.

When Anne Catherine, while yet a child, was employed in weeding, she besought God to root up the cockle from the field of the Church.