...the corn, That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him down (lie lubbar fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of door he flings Kre the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the talus, to 1к"1 they creep, By whispering...

...in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend,...crop-full out of doors he flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, us By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no...

...flail had thrashed the com That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lays him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; But crop full out of doors he flmgs, When the first cock his matin rings." We find, also, Puck, or...

...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...crop-full out of doors he flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, ns By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no...

...day-lahourers could not end ; Then lies hun down the luhher fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimneys length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he nings, Ere the first cock his matins rings." The reader will ohserve that our simple ancestors had...

...the corn, That ten day-lahourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop full out at door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L'Allegro. Shakspeare has unequivocally...

...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength j And crop full out at door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L'Allegro. Shakspeare has...

...the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of door be flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings." Sir Walter Scott says, " tradition has ascribed...

...flale hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lah'rers could not end; Then lays him down the luhhar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." The following on the same suhject is from the " Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the...

...hath thresh'd the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fíend, ach alley has a brother. And half the platform just doore he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, lo bed they creep, By whispering...