 | Henry Phillips - 1823 - 358 páginas
...of the Highlands of Scotland, at the birth of a child, the nurse or midwife puts one end of a great stick of this tree into the fire, and while it is...the first spoonful of liquor to the new-born babe. Nature, which provides the Greenland bean* with its shaggy coat, and adapts the plumage of the feathered... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1824 - 608 páginas
...Scotland, it it added, ' At the birth of a child, the nurse or midwife puts one end of a great stick into the fire, and while it is burning, receives into...the first spoonful of liquor to the new-born babe.' The leaves of the Ash were, in the reign of Elizabeth, commonly used as winter food for cattle, and... | |
 | 1824 - 600 páginas
...Scotland, it is added, ' At the birth of a child, the nurse or midwife puts one end of a great stick into the fire, and while it is burning, receives into...the first spoonful of liquor to the new-born babe.' The leaves of the Ash were, in the reign of Elizabeth, commonly used as winter food for cattle, and... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1846 - 542 páginas
...midwife puts one end of a green stick of this tree into the fire, and, while it is burning, gathering in a spoon the sap, or juice, which oozes out at the other end, administers this as the first spoonful of food to the newlyborn baby." Gilpin, in his " Forest Scenery,"... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 páginas
...birth of a child the nurse or midwife puts one end of a great stick of the ash-tree into the tire, and while it is burning receives into a spoon the...the first spoonful of liquor to the new-born babe." — Phillip's Sylea Flora. Why? G. CKEED. 216. Cockney. — In John Minshieu's Ductor in Linguas, published... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - 1854 - 780 páginas
...midwife puts one end of a green stick of this tree into the fire, and, while it is burning, gathering in a spoon the sap, or juice, which oozes out at the other end, administers this as the first spoonful of food to the newly born baby. Many poets have mentioned the... | |
 | 1862 - 770 páginas
...midwife puts one end of a green stick of this tree into tho lire, and, while it is burning, gathering in a spoon the sap or juice, which oozes out at the other end, administers this as the first spoonful of food to the newly-born baby.' Trivial enough, yet worth noting... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1868 - 302 páginas
...of the Highlands of Scotland, at the birth of a child, the nurse or midwife puts one end of a fjreat stick of this tree into the fire, and while it is...the first spoonful of liquor to the new-born babe. — Sylva Ilor\fera. NOVEL SITUATION FOR A CHRYSALIS.— A few days since I was scrambling over the... | |
 | Inverness Gaelic Society - 1878 - 322 páginas
...of a child, the nurse or midwife, from what motive I know not, puts the end of a green stick of ash into the fire, and, while it is burning, receives...end, and administers this as the first spoonful of liquors to the new-born babe." Another old Highland belief is that a decoction of the tender tops or... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain - 1879 - 492 páginas
...of a child, the nurse or midwife, from what motive I know not, puts the end of a green stick of ash into the fire, and, while it is burning, receives...end, and administers this as the first spoonful of liquors to the new-born babe." Another old Highland belief is that a decoction of the tender tops or... | |
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Lightfoot says that, in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, at the birth of a child the nurse puts one end of a great stick of this tree into the fire, and while it is burning, receives into a spoon the sap or juice which oozes out at the other end,... 
