The farmer sowed turnips and carrots when the under-soil produce came to his lot, and barley or wheat when his turn was the over-soil produce.

Then add some boiled turnips cut in quarters; sprinkle with pepper and flour; let bake until browned.

" A curious phrase current in Devonshire for a young lady who jilts a man is, "She has given him turnips;" and an expressive one for those persons who in spite of every kindness are the very reverse themselves is this: "Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you;" With which may be compared a similar proverb equally suggestive: "He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung.

From 1/2 to 3/4 hour to boil the turnips; 10 minutes to warm them through.

Peel and cut the turnips in the shape of pears or marbles; boil them in salt and water, to which has been added a little butter, until tender; then take them out, drain, arrange them on a dish, and pour over the white sauce made by recipe No. 538 or 539, and to which has been added a small lump of sugar.

" "Oh, but that would spoil the turnip," objected Buddy.

As they had been without food since the previous morning's breakfast it was rather amusing to see the soldiers going into the turnip fields and eating turnips as though they were apples.

" "No trickery about the affair, then?" "No trickery could have sent that turnip into my soup-plate, or that candlestick walking into the air.

This is a large, hard white root, somewhat resembling a turnip in appearance, with a slight celery flavour.

I was sent into the kitchen to mash the turnips for dinner.

Landlord, he saw his tenant once or twice when he was hoeing his turnips and passed the time of day, and landlord's wife wore her new brooch to church every Sunday.

Fresh Fruit Oatmeal Apple and Apricot Toast Cream Rolls Graham Bread Baked Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Pea and Tomato Soup Potato Rice Creamed Parsnips Chopped Turnip Graham Mush Crusts Graham Bread Cream Rolls Stewed Fruit Prune and Tapioca Pudding THIRD DAY BREAKFAST

Melt the butter in the stewpan, but do not let it boil; wash, drain, and slice the turnips and onions very thin; put them in the butter, with a teacupful of stock, and stew very gently for an hour.

She could find little to do there, for he was merely pulling turnips, and she could see nothing to suggest in regard to his method of work.

So they threw up stones, and, though they hit the turnip, and made it swing back and forth, like the pendulum of the clock, it didn't fall down, and by this time Buddy and Sammie were getting very hungry.

He talks of doing useful things, and has introduced turnips for winter fodder.

In 1813 Sydney Smith removed, as he thought it his duty to do, to Foston-le-Clay, and, 'not knowing a turnip from a carrot,' began to farm three hundred acres, and not having any money, to build a parsonage-house.

Billie didn't like turnip, you see for he would rather have chestnuts.

Rust would not have lost his turnip of a head.

'My indictment may be collected out of the faithful annals of common fame, which run thus, 'Advices from Oxford say, that on the 29th of June, 1719, one Nicholas Amhurst of St. John's College was expelled for the following reasons; 'Imprimis, For loving foreign turnips and Presbyterian bishops.

" Turnip"De green top don't medjer de price o' de turnip.

" "You will miss the turnips and cabbages," said Doctor Cotton-Tail.

" So he moved a little nearer the curious hanging turnip, and was about to reach up for it when who should come bounding out of the bushes but

"How like!how very like!That's Warren there, nibbling the turnip.

The country appeared flourishing, and they obtained some turnips raised from seed sown at Cook's last visit.