Eras you have mentioned, Patricia has certain notionsNorthern idiocies about the awfulness of a young fellow's sowing his wild oats, which you and I know perfectly well he is going to do, anyhow, if he is worth his salt.

But if it wasn't the fight that made you feel your oats, was it breaking Diablo?" "No breaking to it.

Be patriotic, old dear; eat less oats.

When she came to us, she had a trick of biting at a person who gave her oats.

Come up to the granarywe'll measure the oats.

You cannot take up a paper without having the question put, "Do you bruise your oats?"

"I was at the market-town to-day to sell some oats for my master, and there was a hue and cry, some of them thought they had got him, but it was a false alarm.

And opening a second door alongside the other, we found Cesar and Sausage munching their oats.

In defining "oats," for example, as a grain given in England to horses and in Scotland to the people, he indulges his prejudice against the Scotch, whom he never understood, just as, in his definition of "pension," he takes occasion to rap the writers who had flattered their patrons since the days of Elizabeth; though he afterwards accepted a comfortable pension for himself.

The principal owners of the Sea Lion, of Holmes' Hole, were husbandmen also; folk who literally tilled the earth, cradled their own oats and rye, and mowed their own meadows.

It was about stealing the oats.

People had found oat the worth of the piece, you see.

His young master would often let him loose in the yard, and when Jonas started to go in, the horse, Major, would follow him to the door, and when he turned him into the pasture, no one could so well catch him as Jonas; for every time he took him from the pasture, Jonas would give him some oats; so when he saw his master coming for him, he remembered the oats, and would come directly to him.

The day was warm, the wild flowers were gone, and the plain was yellow with ripening oats which rustled noisily as we passed through, crowding and bumping their neighborly heads together.

During our walk we noticed the wild oat in great abundance.

But kindness is very catching, and at the Farm everybody was kind, from the House People to the big gray horses in the barn, which let the chickens pick up oats from between their powerful hoofs, without ever frightening them by moving.

Slowly the ponies approached, as though deciding whether they preferred their oats or their liberty.

To prepare oats for food, the husk, which is wholly indigestible in character, must be thoroughly removed.

The groom, in the old story, had never learned the art of greasing horses' teeth, to prevent their eating oats, until the confessor, in interrogating him as to his sins, asked him the question.

When I said 'Eat less meat', what I meant was that you must refuse your oats at dinner tonight.

JELLIED OATMEAL.Cook oatmeal or rolled oats with an additional cup or cup and a half of water, and when done, turned into cups and mold.

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.

Samp is the corn skinned, as we shell oats, or make pearl barley; it is then boiled with pork or other meat, as we boil peas.

" 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.

"Push the pan to him," directed Horace, and, as he smelled the oats, the pony grew still and was soon munching contentedly.