The cultivator in the Philippine Islands is always enabled to secure plenty of manure; for vegetation is so luxuriant that by pulling the weeds and laying them with earth, a good stock is quickly obtained with which to cover his fields.

In front of the inn, she met a woman wearing widow's weeds, and upon questioning her, learned that she was looking for a cook.

It gathers all the alien weeds that come west in garden and grass seeds and affords them harbor in its banks.

"II ran out of the pen to see what it was like outside, and I was just eating some pig weed, when this big dog chased after me."

By this time, Mrs. Kinloch's son, Hugh Branning, who had been to the stable with the horse and carriage, came whistling through the yard, and cutting off weeds or twigs along the path with sharp cuts of his whip.

We picked the weeds, which looked like English mint or basil, and found that most of them had three longitudinal nerves in each leaf, and were really Melastomas, though dwarfed into a far meaner habit than that of the noble forms we saw at Chaguanas, and again on the other side of the lake.

Yet, excepting the watch, he kept every man so busy as might be, some bringing weed to keep up a fire which he had lit near the boat; one to help him turn and hold the batten upon which he labored; and two he sent across to the wreck of the mast, to detach one of the futtock shrouds, which (as is most rare) were made of iron rods.

The fools didn't 'spect ter be follered, and they've lighted some rosin weeds ter cook their supper with.

About the time that we had finished clearing the weed, the bo'sun came over to us, bringing with him the saw and the hatchet.

Let's stick to California and settle the question before your hothouse brain grows any more weeds.

The Monks of Basle I tore this weed from the rank, dark soil Where it grew in the monkish time, I trimmed it close and set it again

The slaves often acquired great skill in these operations, running plows within two inches of the stalks, and striking down weeds within half an inch with their hoes, rarely touching a leaf of the cotton.

but old Bingo hab found many a bright sea-weed in his day, but dis am de sweetest sea-flower ob de whole.

And after the tent was up, he set them to carry the dry weed to the new camp, and at this he kept them until near dusk; for he had vowed never again to be without a sufficiency of fuel.

Common sense tells him that the contrary is the true course; that however poor he may be, he will be still poorer, if he do not take special pains with the young animal, to rear it and with the young vegetable, to give it the right direction, by keeping down the weeds, and pruning and watering it.

One day he stops, along with her, where Boots was hoeing weeds in the gravel, and says, speaking up, "Cobbs," he says, "I like you."

She wore her gingham dress and a sunbonnet, and, kneeling in the path, stretched out her slim brown arm to uproot the weeds.

I see your attention is attracted by that student sitting on the sill of the open window of his study, having in his hand a book, and in his mouth a pipe of clay; by which, with the aid of fire, he is reducing a certain tropical weed into its original chemical elements.

After a time, something still blacker parted the weeds.

And after that, for some time, I kept a very strict gaze into the valley; yet could nowhere discover aught to prove my suspicions, and, at last, I ceased from watching it; for I feared to grow fanciful, and so wandered to that part of the hill which overlooked the weed.

The aching sigh to conquering shouts succeeds, And Victory assumes a widow's weeds.

As yet, however, the animals had done good, rather than harm to the garden, by stirring the soil up, and mixing the sea-weed and decayed fish with it; but among the grass they threatened to be more destructive; than useful.

It was he who had left the door in the wall open, that he might throw the weeds and tares on the rubbish heap outside.

Then, seeing me amazed, they told me how that anything which moved the weed seemed to draw them from all parts; but that they seldom touched the hulk unless there was something visible to them which had movement.

Each comes armed with a coorpee,this is a small metal spatula, broad-pointed, with which they dig out the weeds with amazing deftness.