Such is the gist of the laborious Benedict's researches in Calceology, which are valuable in so far as they are based on passages from writers contemporary, or nearly so, with the shoes and shoe-customs which they describe.

The tressured fleur-de-luce he claims to wreathe his shield.

Once when a tree barber-chaired, this was on a steep hillside, it was a dramatic display of a diving tree.

The potatoe plant in a state of health contains several ingredients, the most important of which are starch, albumen, and solanine.