Among further items of weather-lore associated with May, we are told how he that "sows oats in May gets little that way," and "He who mows in May will have neither fruit nor hay."

Water is to be found in a passage room, between the Kindergarten and the rooms for children above that stage, and here, so placed that the children themselves can find and reach everything, are the sawdust, bran and oats for the guinea pigs, with a few carrots and a knife to cut them, some tiny scrubbing-brushes and a wiping-up cloth.

When he drives his pile, he stands with his neck and long bill pointed straight up, and pumping the air into his throat, sends it oat with the strange sound you have heard.

His father had complained that he used to feed it too well, and often he had been obliged to steal out and smuggle oats to it.

Put a teacupful Scotch rolled oats in a basin, and pour over 2 cupfuls milk in which some onion has been boiled.

In any case, where the use of old oats as a staple diet is departed from, and where the quantity and manner of using the substitute is left to the discretion of careless or unskilled attendants, trouble is likely to ensue.

"I heard the cry of the painter, the howl of the wolf, and the hoarse bellow of the moose that night, and Crop crept close alongside of me, in our bush-shanty, and answered these forest sounds by a low growl, as if sayin' to himself, that while he'd rayther keep oat of a fight, yet, if necessary, in defence of his master, he was ready to go in.

A very small red ant, which drags grains of wheat and oats into its dwellings, lives in India.

" It is also a popular notion among our peasantry that if a drop of rain hang on an oat at this season there will be a good crop.

"You can use oats on Blackhawk and Lightning and our own ponies, but when we want a strange horse we rope him.

Here is another portrait of interestthat of the giant Püntener, a mercenary whose valor made him the terror of the enemy in the battle of Marignano, in 1515; so that when he was finally killed, they avenged themselves, according to a writing beneath the picture, by using his fat to smear their weapons, and by feeding their horses with oats from his carcass.

The unfinished Wild Oats of 1804, follows a somewhat similar design.

COMMON OATS.A grain very commonly known, of which we have a number of varieties, from the thin old Black Oats to the fine Poland variety and the celebrated Potatoe-Oats.

He readily admitted them, and, as they were cold and wet, he lit a fire for their comfort: and he put oats before the Horse, and hay before the Ox, while he fed the Dog with the remains of his own dinner.

There was a nice flat little field close to the water at Parewah, in which I thought I could get a good crop of oats during the cold weather.

In most factories too, when any particular bit of the Zeraats gets exhausted by the constant repetition of indigo cropping, a rest is given it, by taking a crop of oil seeds or oats off the land.

He was born here, and after an education abroad and a sowing of wild oats over years of life in Europe, had lived here the last twenty-five years.

One man has thrashed 300 bushels of oats per day, and on windy days says the mill would run a thrasher of double this capacity.

A young man has no more right to sow his wild oats than a young woman.

" 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.

Jim Oats at Helena was his son.

Joe Nivers sold me to Jack Oats for $1,150.00 when I was four years old.

In the spring of the year that he helped to frame the Federal Constitution he "Sowed the squares No. 2 & 4 at this place [Dogue Run] with oats in the following mannervizthe East half of No. 2 with half a Bushel of Oats from George Townand the west half with a Bushel of Poland OatsThe east half of No. 4 with half a bushel of the Poland Oats and the west half with a bushel of the George Town Oats.