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When I hear such base, skeldering, coistril propositions come from the counsellors of your grace, and when I remember the Huffs, the Muns, and the Tityretu's by whom your grace's ancestors and predecessors were advised on such occasions, I begin to think the spirit of action is as dead in Alsatia as in my old grannam; and yet who thinks so thinks a lie, since I will find as many roaring boys in the Friars as shall keep the liberties against all the scavengers of Westminster.
'My dear lady, it is your mind; I say, it is your mind: I was saying, I am in love with your mind, the General endeavoured to assure her, and himself too. 'Or is it my powers as an artist? 'Your mind, your extraordinary powers of mind. 'Well, said Lady Camper, 'a veteran General of Brigade is as good a crutch as a childless old grannam can have.
I have some mysterious attraction for her. She would not let me come alone. I should have had to hire some old Storling grannam, or retain the tattling keepers of the house. She loves her native country too, and disdains the foreigner. My tea you may trust. Redworth had not a doubt of it. He was becoming a tea-taster. The merit of warmth pertained to the beverage.
'My dear lady, it is your mind; I say, it is your mind: I was saying, I am in love with your mind, the General endeavoured to assure her, and himself too. 'Or is it my powers as an artist? 'Your mind, your extraordinary powers of mind. 'Well, said Lady Camper, 'a veteran General of Brigade is as good a crutch as a childless old grannam can have.
I have some mysterious attraction for her. She would not let me come alone. I should have had to hire some old Storling grannam, or retain the tattling keepers of the house. She loves her native country too, and disdains the foreigner. My tea you may trust. Redworth had not a doubt of it. He was becoming a tea-taster. The merit of warmth pertained to the beverage.
I was thus rapturously employed when I heard a dolorous whine and, starting about, beheld a ragged creature on the opposite side of the hedge who glared at the food with haggard eyes and reached out claw-like hands in supplication. "O for the love o' Christ, spare a crust!" she wailed. "Spare a bite to a grannam as dieth o' hunger.
"Count, grannam, count!" she cried imperiously, "and if't is not enough I've my little churi for the first as dare touch me!"
The grannam, or green-tail-fly, with a wing like a moth, comes on generally morning and evening, from five till eight o'clock, A.M. in mild weather, in the end of March and through April. Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.
The juggles of astrology have been admirably ridiculed by Butler in the following lines: Some by the nose with fumes trepan 'em, As Dunstan did the devil's grannam; Others, with characters and words, Catch 'em, as men in nets do birds; And some with symbols, signs, and tricks, Engrav'd in planetary nicks, With their own influence will fetch 'em Down from their orbs, arrest and catch 'em; Make 'em depose and answer to All questions, ere they let them go.
The brown fly usually disappears before the end of April, likewise the grannam; but of the blue dun there is a succession of different tints, or species, or varieties, which appear in the middle of the day all the summer and autumn long. These are the principal flies on the Wandle the best and clearest stream near London.
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