Grace noted that although they were not bringing much peat there was a risk of the sledges running down upon the teams.

She said her coal was nearly gone and she had got no peat.

For fuel they burned peat.

Aw t' folk clubbed togedder to cut and haul t' peat from Malton.

"You can't sell coal when the Askews are giving peat away," she said.

"This is rather ridiculous, and I don't know if we can hold on," she said as she tried to grasp the shaking peat.

"Go, quick, Frank," shouted Tom, "and stir up the fire; heap more peats and wood on, and bring lighted torches as soon as you can.

In those parts of the Highlands of Scotland where eagles are numerous, and where they commit great ravages among the young lambs, the following methods are used for destroying them:When the nest happens to be in a place situated in the direction of a perpendicular from the edge of a cliff above, a bundle of dry heath or grass inclosing a burning peat is let down into it.

"If I'd kenned you were shooting, mayhappen we could have put off loading the peat.

In some villages the lads collected the peats in a cart, some of them drawing it along and the others receiving the peats and loading them on the cart.

" "Well, although Askew owns the moor, it's doubtful if he is entitled to remove peat for sale, unless by arrangement with the lord of the manor.

They require a sandy peat and leaf-mould, and the pots to be well drained, as too much water is as destructive to them as too little.

One could see it rock and swerve, shaking off loose peats, where the ground was broken, and Grace glanced at the steep pitch Kit had come to watch.

"He imagines he might gain his object almost as well if we stopped Askew cutting peat.

In the villages the boys went from house to house and begged a peat from each householder, usually with the words, "Ge's a peat t' burn the witches."

Accordingly one of the sailors waved a glowing peat for some time.

In some villages the lads collected the peats in a cart, some of them drawing it along and the others receiving the peats and loading them on the cart.

Where the soil contains much peat, these fires may persist for weeks or even months.

Just so, if you will look at any peat bog you will find it bottomed by clay, which clay is pierced everywhere by the roots of the moss forming the peat, or of the trees, birches, alders, poplars, and willows, which grow in the bog.