 | Fashion - 468 pages
...their feet, provoking him to frolic or mimic war. — Quarterly Review. AUSTRALIA. — Earth is there so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest. COMMENTATORS. — The worthy folks that too often write on books, as men with diamonds write on glass,... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 362 pages
...his pocket a map, which unfolding, he spread upon the table. " Quite a land of plenty ! Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." Mrs. Jericho said nothing ; but shook her head and sighed. And here Mrs. Carraways quietly withdrew.... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1851 - 360 pages
...his pocket a map, which unfolding, he spread upon the table. " Quite a land of plenty ! Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." Mrs. Jericho said nothing ; but shook her head and sighed. And here Mrs. Carraways quietly withdrew.... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 586 pages
...the best thing I know between France and England is the sea.'' A LAND OF PLENTY. — Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. AN USHEE'S DUTIES AND REWARD. — Twenty boys are handed over to his keeping. Hence he is expected... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 374 pages
...his pocket a map, which unfolding, he spread upon the table. " Quite a land of plenty ! Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." Mrs. Jericho said nothing ; but shook her head and sighed. And here Mrs. Carraways quietly withdrew.... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...passages. Thus, in one of his stories, speaking of the fertility of Australia, he says : " Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with harvest." Again, in the same tale, he thus describes a matter-of-fact man : "Talk to him of Jacob's... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Cuba - 1854 - 252 pages
...rich that a touch of the hoe prepares it for the plant, or, as Douglass Jerrold says of Australia, "just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest." So fertile a soil is not known to exist in any other portion of the globe. It sometimes produces three... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Antipodes Islands (N.Z.) - 1855 - 688 pages
...the language of one of our pleasantest modern writers, though not applied to New Zealand — a land " so kind, that. just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest-" Kxpcrience has taught us what common sense and common honesty might long ago have suggested, namely,... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1857 - 298 pages
...— — 1,200,000 acres. 2ooг. __ — 1,328,000 acres. зэзг. — — 5,500,000 acres. 601. ! ! ' so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.' Experience has taught us what common sense and common honesty might long ago have suggested, namely,... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - Wit and humor - 1858 - 264 pages
...the golden wires of Apollo, and puts in their place his own cat-gut. A LAND OF PLENTY. Earth is here so kind, that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest. A BROKEN CHARACTER. The character that needs law to mend it is hardly worth the tinkering. A CHARITABLE... | |
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. 
