 | John Timbs - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...young when they are old, must be old when they are young. Proverbs and Sayings. 155 When the fern is high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon. When...fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you are able. When fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread. At forty a man is either... | |
 | Charles Swainson - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...approach of rain. Dandelion. When the down of the dandelion contracts, it is a sign of rain. Fern. When the fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you are able : When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread. " It is observed,"... | |
 | William Tegg - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 136
...Make the happiest marriage. Marry in haste, and repent at leisure ; It's good to marry late, or never. When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon. An easy fool, Is a knave's tool. A cool May, and a windy Barn, filleth up kindly. May come early, come... | |
 | John Timbs - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...long. They who would be young when they are old, must be old when they are young. When the fern is high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon. When the fern is high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you are able. When fern begins to look red, Then milk is... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...homely country verse which you may like to remember, though I don't see much sense in it myself: ' When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep...high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you're able j When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread.' So now run away, and as the... | |
 | James Britten - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...with the Bracken in different parts of England, of which the following is perhaps the best known : — "When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep for an hour at noon : When the fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you're able: When... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...good with brown bread : when the fern is as high as a ladle, you may sleep as long as you're able : when the fern is as high as a spoon, you may sleep an hour at noon. The custom of sleeping after dinner in the summer-time is general in Italy and other hot countries,... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...homely country verse which you may like to remember, though I don't see much sense in it myself : ' When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep...to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread.' So now run away, and as the fern is certainly as high as a ladle, you may sleep till to-morrow morning,... | |
 | Richard Folkard - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...formerly a proverb respecting the Pteris aquilina, or common Brake Fern, popular in the country: — " When the Fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep...Fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as your 're able ; When the Fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread." In Ireland,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...with brown bread, 26. When the fern is as high as a ladle, you may sleep as long as you're able, 26. When the fern is as high as a spoon, you may sleep an houT at noon, 26. When the flatterer pipes. the devil dances. When the fox is asleep, nothing falls... | |
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When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon ; When the fern is as high as a ladle, You may sleep as long as you're able ; When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread. 
