At noon we reached a farmhouse owned by John Evans, where we remained until the heat had somewhat moderated, and set forward again about four o'clock in the afternoon.

It is a tract of land gained from the sea of about ten or twelve hundred acres, banked round in three divisions, and made arable, on which are built about twenty farmhouses, which form almost a new world.

There are fields here and there, to be sure, but they are so small that they are scarcely worth mentioning; and one also finds a few little red or gray farmhouses hidden away in some beech-coppicealmost as if they were afraid to show themselves.

She passed seedy farmhouses, primitive in construction, and big barns with moss plentifully clinging on roof and gable.

We saw a few farmhouses, all desolated by shellfire and all deserted, and a succession of empty fields and patches of woodland.

Frank found himself approaching the quiet farmhouse where he was to leave the medicine.

" They said farewell at the yard-gate, for Seth wouldn't enter the farmhouse, choosing rather to turn back along the fields through which he and Dinah had already passed.

One feature of the countryside in which from time to time we found innocent amusement was the blackboards placed outside farmhouses, on which are written, that is, "annunciated," the various products the farmer has for sale, such as apples, potatoes, honey, and so forth.

What would you think of my putting in an electric plant at the mill, and lighting both Millville and Huntingdon, as well as all the farmhouses?" "Not a bad idea, Joe," said Uncle John approvingly.

But it sure is nice here, and I don't mind if we stay another week or so," and he looked up the pleasant valley, on one side of which was perched the farmhouse where the two moving picture boys had been spending their vacation.

The current hurled us against the wall; it required precautions and many efforts to quit the farmhouse.

"I'll trust you youngsters to do some good work for somebody in connection with them," asserted Grandfather Emerson one day when Roger had been talking over with him his pet plan for remodelling the old Emerson farmhouse into a place suitable for the summer shelter of poor women and children from the city who needed country air and relief from hunger and anxiety.

"Louisa may want to repaper the farmhouse some time," he added to himself.

Unversed in local etiquette, they commenced operations by "sending up"to employ a vulgar but convenient catch-phrasea strongly fortified farmhouse in the enemy's support line.

Before long, just as the distant, but fast approaching, cloud curtain began to be ripped and slashed by vivid scimitars of lightning, Roy espied, beneath them, a field, at one end of which stood a prosperous-looking farmhouse, surrounded by buildings and hay stacks.

Once during the day he may perhaps steal round the farmhouse, and peer wistfully from behind the tubs or buckets into the kitchen, when, if the mistress chances to be about, he is pretty certain to pick up some trifle in the edible line.

Towards the end of 1814 Scott had surrounded the original farmhouse with a number of buildingskitchen, laundry, and spare bedroomsand was able to entertain company.

The way they togged up thet farmhouse is somethin' won'erful, I'm told.

How finely the evening sun falls on that sandy, excavated bank, and touches the farmhouse on the top of the eminence! II.Hannah

A nearer approach disclosed to view a slanting-roofed farmhouse such as is often found in New England, with high, narrow windows, small panes of glass, and the most indispensable paper curtains of blue closely shading the windows of what was probably the "best room."

Then, if the Germans had time, they would burn the farmhouse and kill the husband who had shot one of their comrades.

The headlights had caught in their glare the deserted farmhouse in which he had awakened just before Howells had told him of his grandfather's death and practically placed him under arrest.

OLNEY Richard could not stay in Camden, where everything reminded him so much of Ethelyn, and at his mother's earnest solicitations he went back to Olney, taking with him all the better articles of furniture which Ethie had herself selected, and which converted the plain farmhouse into quite a palace, as both Andy and his mother thought.

" Walking along the highway, which ran down to a little milk station on the railroad, the three boys soon discovered a farmhouse nestling between some trees and bushes.

"The artillerymen had resumed their duel and as we came up in the lee of the outbuildings of a deserted farmhouse a shell struck and fired the farmhouse immediately in front of us.