In Germany the costmary (Costaminta vulgaris) is "Our Lady's balsam," the white-flowered wormwood the "smock of our Lady," and in olden days the iris or fleur-de-lis was held peculiarly sacred.

What lady, smocked in morning cambric, would not be wooed by such a voice?

To her he was like the artist who smears himself and his smock with paint while in his studio, but appears at dinner in spotless linen without even a whiff of benzine about him to suggest his occupation.

There was a carter's smock for him, white and quilted over with needlework, such as carters wear on the Down farms, and for me a smaller one, and hats and leather leggings all to match.

On went the new smock over her head in a twinkling.

A man in a peasant's smock from a neighboring field, who, it appeared, held some local office of authority, now took a hand in the investigation and, after a number of questions of Hermia and the gate-keeper, sent the train upon its way.

According also to the old rhyme: "Then comes the daffodil beside Our Lady's smock at our Lady's tide.

" "It is gettin' colder," said John Watson, as he hung up his smock behind the door, "our Spring is over for awhile, I think.

"What's shoes?" asked the smallest half-breed, tucking up his smock around his middle.