Huddled in these holes in the earth are free-born men of an old civilization, who read the daily papers and eat jam on their bread.

The apricot makes excellent jam and marmalade, and there are several foreign preparations of it which are considered great luxuries.

Pa said: "I never saw such a sight since I used to drink, but I have either got the jim-jams, or something awful has happened to this menagerie.

Injun Jim did not want Casey; he wanted more jam.

Go through it we must, or stay where we are until that field-ice gives us a jam down yonder in the crescent.

Put the apricots into small jars, pour over them the syrup and kernels, cover the jam with pieces of paper dipped in the purest salad-oil, and stretch over the top of the jars tissue-paper, cut about 2 inches larger and brushed over with the white of an egg: when dry, it will be perfectly hard and air-tight.

Time.12 hours sprinkled with sugar; about 3/4 hour to boil the jam.

"Blimey, Joe, if 'ere ain't a blooming Universal Plum-an'-Apple Provider. 'Ere, 'oo stole the strawberry jam?" "You let me in on this ball game," said Rawbon.

"Now!" exclaimed the Tailor, "Heaven will send me a blessing on this jam, and give me fresh strength and vigor;" and, taking the bread from the cupboard, he cut himself a slice the size of the whole loaf, and spread the jam upon it.

It was nice to live in comfort, and among ladies and gentlemenpeople who knew how to conduct themselves properly, and who paid one every attention without a bit of fear of being twitted with "laying the jam on".

In canning and preserving time there floated out from her kitchen the pungent scent of pickled crab apples; the mouth-watering, nostril-pricking smell that meant sweet pickles; or the cloying, tantalising, divinely sticky odour that meant raspberry jam.

[Illustration: Mother (to maid, who has offered Marjorie some jam).

he says, 'n' they got t' work, 'n' the crowd begun t' jam up 'n' holler.

To his surprise, he found that here was a man who could make himself intelligible without prefixing a flaming adjective when he asked his pal to pass the jam.

The motto in the title-page is "Saiva res est: philosophatur quoque jam; Quod erat ei nomen?

Anerley, with his head and arms buried in a deal packing-case, was working his way through strata of tinned soups, bully beef, potted chicken, and sardines to reach the jams which lay beneath.

It would reduce the nightly jam around the stage door by a whole lot.

Well may we say with the poet, Multa renascuntur quae jam cecidere.

" The urchin rubbed the raspberry jam off his mouth, and said, "It don't matter, sir, for I've got lots more.

Boil all together until it jellies, which will be in from 20 minutes to 1/2 hour; skim the jam well, keep it well stirred, and, a few minutes before it is done, crack some of the stones, and add the kernels: these impart a very delicious flavour to the jam. Time.

Straightening herself up, and trying in vain to smooth the jam, Madam Conway continued: "In liquor, I know.

Choose the large long black plum; to each gallon of which add three pounds of good moist sugar; bake them till they begin to crack, when, put them in pots, of a size for once using, as the air is apt to spoil the jam.

"Last month you could not come to us because your wife was just then outworn with standing in the hot kitchen and stewing jams and marmalades.

Strawberry cream may be made in precisely the same manner, substituting strawberry jam or jelly for the raspberry.

"MY DEAR TROLLOPE,My eldest boy, who spends his honeymoon in Florence (is not that sugaring jam tart?), brings you this greeting from your silent but affectionate friends.