 | Anne Pratt - Wild flowers - 1799 - 200 pages
...reminiscences of Clare on the subject : — " The 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 peculiar to the English child, for the French children call them also les petits fromageons.... | |
 | Flowers - 1847 - 392 pages
...called them cheeses, and most can sympathize with the reminiscences of Clare on the subject : — " The sitting down when school was o'er, Upon the threshold...sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese." Nor is this play peculiar to the English child, for the French children call them also les petits fromageons.... | |
 | George W. Johnson - 1850 - 434 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English language - 1854 - 440 pages
...(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 - Botany - 1855 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Botany - 1855 - 422 pages
...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... | |
 | Margaret Plues - Wild flowers - 1863 - 438 pages
...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... | |
 | 1867 - 974 pages
...sylvestris, cheeses : hence, in some country places, the plant is called " Cheese-flower." Clare says : — " Picking from mallows, sport to please, The crumpled seed we call a cheese." French children play the same game, and call the seeds " les petite fromageons." Syrups are made from... | |
 | Flowers - 1874 - 206 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
