My weed I cast to keep them from the cold, And Jenny, gentle girl, tore all her smock The bloody issue of their wounds to stop.

She continued to smooth out the little smock with minute care, while Mrs. Lorimer watched her anxiously.

They used to come trotting the five miles from Loughrea, little fellows with blue eyes shining out from soot-black faces, wearing little soot-coloured smocks.

And when Beltane had handled the well-worn smocks, had viewed the bulging meal-sacks that Walkyn and his fellows brought him, he arose.

" "It is gettin' colder," said John Watson, as he hung up his smock behind the door, "our Spring is over for awhile, I think.

(LIX) Allow each hand a smock and a cloak every other year.

He suits me!" When Pearl went back to the kitchen, her father was taking off his smock.

"What's shoes?" asked the smallest half-breed, tucking up his smock around his middle.

If the weather has been bad, count how many stormy days there have been, and rehearse what work could have been done despite the rain, such as washing and pitching the wine vats, cleaning out the barns, sorting the grain, hauling out and composting the manure, cleaning seed, mending the old gear, and making new, mending the smocks and hoods furnished for the hands.

Walkyn, bring now the smocks.

Nay, I perhapps, ere they can drye there smocks, Will putt th'affayre in motion, whyle these are Att solleme mattens.