* Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers; A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked; If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

INGREDIENTS.To every 3 gallons of water allow 1 peck of elderberries; to every gallon of juice allow 3 lbs.

The first sweet potatoes marketed always brought a dollar a peck, or four dollars a bushel.

So gave them a peck of corn, and fastened up safe.

So he tuk a peck er co'n out'n de ba'n one night, en went ober ter

she 'd wuk her roots, en see w'at dey 'd say 'bout it, en ter-morrer night he sh'd come back ag'in en fetch ernudder peck er co'n, en den she 'd hab sump'n fer ter tell 'im.

The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser of May 30, 1788, says, "a single peck of corn a week, or the like measure of rice, is the ordinary quantity of provision for a hard-working slave; to which a small quantity of meat is occasionally, though rarely, added.

It may contain rather more than two pecks, and is of various colors, black predominating, with the seams that show its fourfold composition distinctly marked.

2 pints 1 quart 2 quarts 1 pottle 2 pottles 1 gallon 2 gallons 1 peck 4 pecks 1 bushel 2 bushels 1 strike 5 bushels 1 sack flour 8 bushels 1 quarter 5 quarters 1 wey or load 5 pecks 1 bushl.

I try to kiss him; but he makes such a spiteful peck at my nose, that I have to give up the idea.

Perhaps the best way to realise the problem is to reflect that every adult inhabitant needed about four and a half pecks of corn per month, or some three pounds a day; so that if the population of Rome be taken at half a million in Cicero's time, a million and a half pounds would be demanded as the daily consumption of the people.

Mr. Ricardo, therefore, would not have said that wages had risen, because a labourer could obtain two pecks of flour instead of one, for a day's labour; but if last year he received, for a day's labour, something which required eight hours' labour to produce it, and this year something which requires nine hours, then Mr. Ricardo would say that wages had risen.

So the Pine Rat vindicates his claim to a common humanity with all the rest of us men and women; for have not we all our secret and most approved method of springing the arch,of palming off our three short pecks for a full and bounteous imperial bushel?

Ain't two shillings a day handsome for scratching out half a peck of grass?

This money was conveyed to Tarentum, by Lucius Apustius, lieutenant-general, and with it Hiero sent two hundred thousand pecks of wheat, and a hundred thousand of barley.

FOR TWENTY PEOPLE To serve twenty people one-half peck of potatoes is required.

As the modius was nearly the equivalent of our peck, the Roman allowance for sowing corresponds to the present American practice of sowing seven pecks of wheat to the acre: and on this basis a yield of 26 bushels to the acre, which is not uncommon in the United States, is the equivalent of the Roman harvest of fifteen for one.

This is the recipe for must cake (mustaceus): Sprinkle a peck of wheat flour with must.

Into 3 gallons of water stir 1/4 peck of lime, 1/2 lb. of sulphur, and 1/2 lb. of tobacco.

Take the best end of a neck of lamb, either keep it whole or divide it into chops as may be preferred, put it into a saucepan with a little chopped onion, pepper, salt, and a small quantity of water; when half done add half a peck of peas, half a lettuce cut fine, a little mint, and a few lumps of sugar, and let it stew thoroughly; when done, there must not be too much liquor; cutlets of veal or beef are also excellent dressed as above.

GREEN TOMATO PICKLE (FRENCH PICKLE) Wash thoroughly a peck of green tomatoes, eight large white onions and six green-bell peppers.

" The elder is not without its teaching, and according to a popular old proverb: "When the elder is white, brew and bake a peck, When the elder is black, brew and bake a sack.

He would have made an excellent fourth when "Willie brewed a peck of malt, and Rab and Allan came to see," and the drinking contest for the Whistle commemorated in another lyric would have excited his keenest interest.

" "How would you describe those who are at present in the government service?" "Ugh! mere peck and panier men!not worth taking into the reckoning.

"Yes; her career has been one of riding for a series of falls, and escaping even a peck.