" Then there is the old Michaelmas rhyme: "At Michaelmas time, or a little before, Half an apple goes to the core; At Christmas time, or a little after, A crab in the hedge, and thanks to the grafter.

Of course no crab of spirit is going to receive an insult before his beloved and not resent it; with one painful quiver of his little legs, he sets the lady crab down, and then the two amorous lovers proceed to deadly combat.

You don't s'pose I'd go for crabs with a rod, do you?

" Nice clothes, nice boats, a good many other nice things, were as yet beyond the reach of Dick Lee; but he was quite likely to catch as many crabs as his more aristocratic neighbors.

He creeps out of them as a crab from the shell that has grown too small for him, but he thinks he has left his identity behind him.

We have the testimony of the schoolmaster, Holofernes, in Love's Labor's Lost to show that the study of Latin led to facility in the use of English synonyms: "The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood, ripe as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven; and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra, the soil, the land, the earth.

However this may be, the lobsters and crabs for being devoured are best when of the middle size, and when found on reefs or very rocky shores.

When they reached the landing, and began to over-haul their very brilliant "catch," Dabney said, "Now, Dick, take your string home, leave that basket of crabs at Mr. Foster's, and then come back with the basket, and carry the rest of 'em to our house.

He prefers to pull the poor Crab to pieces with his strong arms, and then to pick up the crab-meat with the hooked beak.

The old shell is left quite wholea perfect Crab, but with no Crab inside it!

I am not huffy and crabbed like yourself to go taking offence.

They reached the old orchard, and ran about among the trees picking up applesnow the little soft yellow crab applesthen the huge, round, ruddy pippinsnext the golden-coat bell apples, oblong and mellow, which had dropped from pure ripeness from the autumn boughs.

The beach at the back was for swimming during the day and catching crabs during the night.

With these it pressed the crab against its mouth, injecting under its shell the venomous output of its salivary glands, paralyzing thus every movement of existence.

This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright*, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.