The length of time between planings can be anywhere from one year to several, depending on the density of the wood, the amount you play, and the abrasiveness of your perspiration.

Poor little thing! She is very wee and frail, isn't she? Only two months old. We came away from the north, as soon as I was able to travel. She is called Lily. I remembered Horace having once told me that his mother's name had been Lilias.

At your age ‘death’ has no significance, at mine it is full of terror. One knows not how, or why, or with what concernancy, but suddenly one knows, and everything in life takes on another aspect.

The cheeseman and his assistants milk the cows put the milk altogether, and make cheese of it; and at the end of the season each owner receives the weight of cheese proportionable to the quantity of milk his cows have delivered.