 | Anne Pratt - 1799 - 200 páginas
...clumps of leaves remain in the hedges till winter has swept all the remnants of summer beauty before his rains and snows. There are few who have not, during...sitting down when school was o'er, Upon the threshold of 1he door, Picking from mallows, sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese." Nor is this play... | |
 | George W. Johnson - 1850 - 434 páginas
...i seeds are often played with and eaten by country children, i and called by them "cheeses:" " Then sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the threshold of the door, Picking from mullowa, sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese." Tlic emolliont properties which all... | |
 | John Theodore Barker (schoolmaster.) - 1852 - 316 páginas
...sylvestris. — Well known by its large purpleveined flowers, and singularly arranged fruit. " Then sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the threshold...sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese." Marsh-mallow. Althsea officinalis. — An upright plant with many stems and flowers. Outer calyx in... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Baker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...(Hooker). So called from their form. A schoolboy's pastime to collect them. Thus described by Clare : The sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the threshold...of the door, Picking from mallows, sport to please, Each crumpled seed he called a cheese. GLARE, " Shep. Cal." p. 51. TGHAD CHEESE-FORD, CHEESE-FOOT or... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 422 páginas
...country children, both in England and France, called cheeses; and many of us besides Clare can recall "The sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the...from mallows sport to please, The crumpled seed we call'da cheese." The leaves of tho mallow are used as an application to wounds, and arc often boiled... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1855 - 500 páginas
...country children, both in England and France, called cheeses ; ami many of us besides Clare can recal " The sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the threshold...from mallows sport to please, The crumpled seed we call'da cheese." The leaves of the mallow are used as an application to wounds, and are often boiled... | |
 | Margaret Plues - 1863 - 438 páginas
...All children love to play with the miniature " Cheeses " which form the seeds, as Clare says — " The sitting down when school was o'er Upon the threshold...sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a Cheese." French children play the same game, terming the seeds " les petits fromageons." Syrups and pastils... | |
 | Flowers - 1874 - 206 páginas
...where to find the lilac mallow, to gather its round seeds, and store them up and call them "cheeses." " Sitting down when school was o'er Upon the threshold...sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese." From some reason which I could never quite understand, the delicate wood-sorrel is also called " bread... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1879 - 644 páginas
...the Northamptonshire poet, has a reminiscence of childish games with these cheeses, when he says— ' The sitting down when school was o'er Upon the threshold...sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese.' 'Le» petits fromageons' is the name given by French children to the ' crumpled seed ' of the Mallow.... | |
 | Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1879 - 648 páginas
...poet, has a reminiscence of childish games with these cheeeet, when ho says — « ' The sitting do-sen when school was o'er Upon the threshold of the door,...sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese.' 'Let petit» fromageons' is the name given by French children to the ' crumpled seed ' of the Mallow.... | |
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The sitting down, when school was o'er, Upon the threshold of the door, Picking from mallows, sport to please, Each crumpled seed he... 
