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BATTLEDORE BARLEY. This is a fine grain, but very tender, and not now in cultivation in this country. NAKED BARLEY. The two first species sometimes produce a variety which thrashes out of the husks similar to wheat: these are very heavy and fine grain, but they are not in cultivation: for what reason I know not. PANICUM miliaceum. MILLET. Millet is of two kinds, the brown and yellow.
Sunday was rather a trying day at Babington. If hunting, shooting, fishing, croquet, lawn-billiards, bow and arrows, battledore and shuttle-cock, with every other game, as games come up and go, constitute a worldly kind of life, the Babingtons were worldly. There surely never was a family in which any kind of work was so wholly out of the question, and every amusement so much a matter of course.
There is a perpetual debate going on one of those moulting shuttlecocks that serve to make one's battledore give out a merry sound about the relation of art to morals, and whether the artist or the poet ought to attempt to teach anything. It makes a good kind of debate, because it is conducted in large terms, to which the disputants attach private meanings. The answer is a very simple one.
Cedric and Lady Constance played at battledore and shuttlecock. Mistress Penwick sat apart, busy with thought and needle. His Grace of Ellswold sat up that morning, his wife and physicians by his side, and all were happy with the great improvement. Meanwhile, at the monastery all was commotion. The day there would be far too short to accomplish all that was to be done.
"Indeed, though," cried Loveit, piqued, "THERE you're mistaken, for I could refuse if I chose it." Hardy smiled; and Loveit, half afraid of his contempt, and half afraid of Tarlton's ridicule, stood doubtful, and again had recourse to his battledore, which he balanced most curiously upon his forefinger.
Mops and the boys were eating dates from a bowl and pelting each other with the stones, while a new member of the family, a seemingly sexless being in a blue sash and shoulder knots, called "Baby," galloped up and down the room with a battledore and shuttlecock. No servant announced her name. I felt no warning tremor of solid Earth beneath my feet.
One day that he sat beside me at dinner, we had a delightful battledore and shuttlecock conversation from grave to gay as quick as your heart could wish: from L'Almanac des Gourmandes and Le Respectable Porc, to Dorriforth and the Simple Story. Jan 22. My letter has been detained two days for a frank.
Miss Elbury wanted us always to play battledore and shuttlecock, or Les Graces, if we couldn't go out. 'Horrid woman! said Valetta.
Smedley was listening, I was sure, and it did sound so silly and babyish, and yet I only did it to please Flurry. "I am afraid you think me very childish," I stammered, for I remembered that game of battledore and shuttlecock, and how excited I had been when I had achieved two hundred.
She had been a famous battledore-player in the galleries of Caergwent Castle; and once when she took up the battledore to give a lesson, it seemed as if, between her and Mrs. Lacy, the shuttlecock would not come down they kept up five hundred and eighty-one, and then only stopped because it was necessary for her to go to dinner.
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