...pleasure, drink by measure, You must drink as much after an egg as after an ox. An egg, and to bed. When fern begins to look red. Then milk is good with brown bread. Good kail is half a meal. Drink wine and have the gout, drink no wine and have the gout too. Often...

...America that this plant bears the same name. To it doubtless many an old proverb and saying refers. ' When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep...to look red, Then milk is good with brown bread.' One wonders if country folk really followed the above rules for regulating their hours of rest ! A...

...daffodils begin to peer, With heigh ! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year." " 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." Formerly certain...

...appearance of the fern, because — " 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." Formerly certain agricultural operations were regulated by the seasons, and an old rule tells the farmer...

...May lie till eleven. Instead of this couplet, Mr. Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes, 6th ed. p. 72, has— When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep...look red, Then milk is good with brown bread. " The custom of sleeping after dinner in the summer time is general in Italy and other hot countries . ....

...with brown bread, 26. When the fern is as high as a ladle, you may sleep as long aa you're able, 26. When the fern is as high as a spoon, you may sleep an houi at noon, 26. When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances. When the fox is asleep, nothing falls...

...spring, summer, autumn. Haz. has turned them topsy-turvey. Ho. it will be observed has only the autumn. 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 you are able ; when fern begins to look red, then milk is good with brown bread. — R., 1670. When...

...Avon put out their first lobster-pots; also they say — When the fern is as high as a spoon, Then you may sleep an hour at noon; When the fern is as high as the table, Then you may sleep as long as you're able; When the fern begins to look red, Then milk is...

...an hour at noon ; when the 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. — R., 1670. When whins are* out of bloom, then kissing is out of fashion. — Den. * gorse is. —...

...Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night (llthj.) A dry summer ne'er made a dear peck. When the fern is as high as a spoon, You may sleep an hour at noon. An English summer, two fine days and a thunderstorm. There's no summer but it has a winter. If woolly...