" "So, you'll be thick as peas in a pod with the priests now?

In the course of our visitation a thunder storm came on, during which we took shelter with a poor widow woman, who had a plateful of steeped peas for sale, in the window.

Add the cooked peas to the cooked rice, with the butter, parsley, and lemon juice.

" Speaking of cherries, it may be mentioned that the awkwardness of eating them on account of their stones, has given rise to sundry proverbs, as the following: "Eat peas with the king, and cherries with the beggar," and: "Those that eat cherries with great persons shall have their eyes squirted out with the stones.

If five bullets had been fired at the bear, they had made no more impression than peas from a putty blower.

This way and that skipped the four, like peas on a drumhead, but they could see neither to defend themselves nor to run away.

Throw the peas into boiling water slightly salted, and boil them rapidly until tender.

Such a method will seem rather revolutionary to those who have been accustomed to soak peas over night, but a single trial is all that is needed to convince the most sceptical.

Peas under 3 ft. in height do not require sticking, but they can be more easily gathered if a few small twigs are used to keep the haulm off the ground.

If he is the great man he thinks himself, all this cannot hurt him: it is like throwing peas against a rock.'

Cook butter peas as for stew, [Footnote: See page 35.

All along the moist banks grew other flowers that were never seen in the dry ground abovethe blue star, and scarlet and white verbenas; and sweet-peas of all colours; and the delicate red vinegar flower, and angel's hair, and the small fragrant lilies called Mary's-tears, and tall scattered flags, flaunting their yellow blossoms high above the meadow grass.

Then Octavia fired peas out of a little popgun twice, and this was meant as a long farewell to the land.

She handed the basin of peas through the open window to Seraphina, and retired to her room, to study, to plan, and to revel in flights of epicurean fancy.

I. Forbidden fruit a flavor has That lawful orchards mocks; How luscious lies the pea within The pod that Duty locks!

They may succeed peas without any fresh manure.

These peas after being harvested, dried and beaten out of the shell, were of a reddish brown tint, not like those raised for the master's family, but they were considered a wholesome and nutritious food for the slaves.

Cheap Books, we hope, will never be an evil; for, as "the same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas, would give bread to a whole family during six months;" so the expense of a gay volume at this season will furnish a moderate circle with amusive reading for a twelvemonth.

You had to soak it like dried peas before cooking.

" "Yes, and pink sweet peas beside them, to set one's teeth on edge.

At this time he favored planting corn in rows about ten feet apart, with rows of potatoes, carrots, or peas between.

GREEN PEA PURÉE Cook one quart of green peas until very tender.

Peas à la Française.