| Robert Chambers - 1862 - 882 pages
...John ! thou does look smart, surely." Some also wore small bunches of corn in their hats, from which the wheat was soon shaken out by the ungainly jumping...which they were ever cracking to add to the noise, whilo even the smith and the miller were among tho number, for the one sharpened the plough-shares... | |
| James George Frazer - 1890 - 430 pages
...Antiquities, i. 505, liohn's ed.), and sometimes they " wore small bunches of corn in their hats, from which the wheat was soon shaken out by the ungainly jumping which they called dancing. . . . Bessy rattled his box and danced so high that he showed his worsted stockings and corduroy breeches."... | |
| Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1900 - 582 pages
...John ! thou does look smart, surely." Some also wore small bunches of corn in their hats, from which the wheat was soon shaken out by the ungainly jumping...by threshers carrying their flails, reapers bearing thoir sickles, and carters with their long whips, which they wore crocking to add to the noise, while... | |
| James George Frazer - 1900 - 522 pages
...Antiquitics, i. 505, Bohn's ed.), and sometimes they " wore small bunches of corn in their hats, from which the wheat was soon shaken out by the ungainly jumping which they called dancing. . . . Bessy rattled his box and danced so high that he showed his worsted stockings and corduroy breeches"... | |
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