They always used.' 'Yes; they can have them out; but having them out and having food for them are different things.

The people here have so much stock now, that directly the growth is checked by the frost, the land becomes almost bare.

They forget the old saying--"Half stocking, whole profits; whole stocking, half profits!" And then, too, I think the winters are earlier here than they used to be.

They'll have to go back to the Swiss plan, I fancy, and carry the food to the cattle in their houses.

It may be old-fashioned, as they say; but I doubt whether the fodder does not go farther so.' Then as they began to ascend the mountain, he got on to the subject of his own business and George's prospects.