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'Call it self-respect, then! corrected Herrick, with a laugh. 'And why not Grace? Why not God's Grace, Hay? asked Attwater. 'Why not the grace of your Maker and Redeemer, He who died for you, He who upholds you, He whom you daily crucify afresh? There is nothing here, striking on his bosom 'nothing there' smiting the wall 'and nothing there' stamping 'nothing but God's Grace!
The buttercups and the daisies would be blooming when we were working the road, and the timothy grass about ready to do so pointing to the near approach of the great event of the season, the one major task toward which so many other things pointed "haying;" the gathering of our hundred or more tons of meadow hay. This was always a hard-fought campaign.
At the beginning of that month, the Earl of Mar, in company with General Hamilton and Colonel Hay, had embarked at Gravesend, on the Thames, all in disguise and under assumed names.
There is that boy, fresh from the National School, cutting more grass in a day than six strong mowers could have cut, and cutting it better, too; for the mowing-machine goes so much nearer to the ground than the scythe, that we gain by it two hundredweight of hay on every acre.
Great hay wagons loaded with children, laughing girls, and sedate women set out from Main Street at dawn. Beside them walked tall boys, who pelted the girls with green apples and cherries from the trees along the road, and men who went along behind smoking their morning pipes and talking of the prevailing prices of the products of their fields.
The church was literally stuffed with hay like a cannon charged to the muzzle. "What does this mean?" he asked the captain of the gendarmerie. "A precaution taken by the municipality." "A precaution taken by the municipality?" "Yes." "For what?" "To save the church.
The first denoted attention; the second, part comprehension; and the third, assent and entire approval; to mark which more distinctly, the last syllable was drawn out to an immoderate length, and accompanied by a sort of half laugh. I shall give one instance of our colloquial pastime. His lordship, after we had each taken up our quarters for the night, on the soft dry hay, thus began:
And there's a steady stream through there asking me all kinds of questions about animals. I don't know nothing about animals. I don't know whether a live moose eats hay or chopped liver. Those questions keep me all hestered up. It puts me in a wrong position before the public. I can't tell 'em which or what, and they think I'm losing my mind." "Post up! It will keep you busy.
They chased me right into the stables; and from under the hay I watched the head-groom take down a carriage-whip and order them to the right about. Luckily Master and the young grooms were out, or that day there'd have been fighting for everybody. Well, it nearly did for me and the Master. "Mr.
I never felt so grateful to any creature below the sun as I did to my honest Sirrah that morning." Foraging. A constable once made a complaint before a bench of London magistrates against a horse for stealing hay. The complainant stated that the horse came regularly every night of its own accord, and without any attendant, to the coach-stands in St.
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