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Updated: September 26, 2025
And for the same reason they stick burs and mugwort on the gate or the hedge through which the cows go to pasture, because that is supposed to be a preservative against witchcraft. In Masuren, a district of Eastern Prussia inhabited by a branch of the Polish family, it is the custom on the evening of Midsummer Day to put out all the fires in the village.
But I won't let them see me cast down, and it is good to be huzzaing at all events. Huzza for Talbot! Talbot for ever! huzza! Enter WHEELER and BURSAL. Wheel. Who was that huzzaing for Talbot? Burs. Pooh, it is only Rory O'Ryan, or the roaring lion as I call him. Ha! ha! ha!
Cries of, "They are coming! Here they are!" "Take care, or you'll tread on that kitten," "Nurse, hold the child higher that she may see something of the sight." "You are pushing me into the water, Sebak!" "Have a care Phoenician, the boys are throwing burs into your long beard."
One of them obeyed, and coming near to Manabozho, he presented him the other end of his own bushy tail, which was nicely seasoned with burs, gathered in the course of the hunt. Manabozho jumped up and called out: "You dog, now that your stomach is full, do you think I am going to eat you to get at my dinner? Get you gone into some other place."
Under that very tree, one chill October day, she had given charity unasked to a pale-faced man, shivering in thin clothes; and there too she had comforted a poor wild-haired little boy whose stronger companions had robbed him of all the chestnut- burs and acorns he had gathered; and on this sacred spot a small angelic child walking with its mamma had put up its arms and demanded a kiss.
Unfortunately, the weeds and burs seed just as freely, and there is one especial torment to the garden in the shape of an innocent-looking little plant something like an alpine strawberry in leaf and blossom, bearing a most aggravating tuft of little black spines which lose no opportunity of sticking to one's petticoats in myriads.
As his sweetheart sat by his bedside they planned their future life. They would still go to the distant land on which his heart was set, though it might be only for awhile; and she, with playfulness, declared that she would go there as Mrs. Thwaite. "I suppose they can't prevent me calling myself Mrs. Thwaite, if I please." "I am not so sure of that," said the tailor. "Evil burs stick fast."
"Couldn't I take a short walk in the woods, later, to rest myself?" "My goodness, no!" Jimmy cried. "You'd be sure to lose some of the hats and coats, or tear them on some briars, or get them full of burs." "How long is the party going to last?" Nimble asked. "Only till midnight!" At that Nimble gave a groan. "S-s-h!" Jimmy Rabbit laid a paw upon his lips. "Keep still! Stuffed animals never talk.
As yet he has brought back from these forbidden raids nothing more than a few ticks and millions of burs. As for the ticks, I am getting over my horror at having to dislodge them from among the baby's soft curls by means of a sharp needle, and even G only shouts with laughter at discovering a great swollen monster hanging on by its forceps to his leg.
"Some of the burs are still shut tight, Some open with chestnuts three, And some nuts fall with no burs at all Smooth, shiny, as nuts should be. "O who can tell what fun it was To see the prickly shower! To feel what a whack on head or back. Was within a chestnut's power!
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