bran

Then he entered the back room and took up a measure of bran, which he mixed with a great many pins and needles.

"Item, that having been told by the master of the novices that he should restrict his food for two days to a single three-pound loaf of bran and beans, for the greater honoring and glorifying of St.

He looked closely at it, shook his head, and told the man to fetch a good bran mash and put some meal into it.

How on earth did your aunt Mirandy let you put on your bran' new dress?"

In that position I could easily have my way with him, and as the habit of tragical adventures had worn off almost all my terror for the dead, I took him by the waist as if he had been a sack of bran and with one good heave, tumbled him overboard.

They eat up the chicken food, and steal the oats and bran, and make holes in the meal bags.

What food would you prefer, a bran mash or ripe oats in the shell?"

Maybe so, maybe not; but without ever having seen him, and judging only by his illegal and spectacular parentage, I will bet the odds of a bale of hay to a bran mash that he looks it.

-- To purchasing bran new paper shirt collar or dickey, to set off gray Petersham.....................................

He would never know how sure a breeder was his new bull--the son of that fine creature he had imported; two cows he had spotted as not paying their board could go on for months eating good alfalfa and bran before a new herdsman might become convinced of their unreadiness to turn the expensive feed into white gold; he had not written down the dates when the sows were to farrow, and they might have litters somewhere around the strawstack and crush half the little pigs.