...hidden chain of ideas. My walnuts had reminded my grandfather of the couplet, ' A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be.' " Lord Eldon returned to London from Encombe on the 10th of September, and devoted himself assiduously...

...pray don't try : my cries would disprove your assertion. UNCLE. It might do you good. A woman, " Like a spaniel and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they'll be." NIECE. Fie, uncle, to use such horrid musty old proverbs. The new saying is — UNCLE....

...lawful spouse." " Hast thou forgotten thine own see-saw ? " said De la Pole smilingly. " ' For a woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be.' " Yea, she is very earnest to see me once again, and declares her master is now so constantly abroad,...

...lawful spouse." " Hast thou forgotten thine own see-sawP" said De la Pole, smilingly. " ' For a woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree. The more you beat them the better they be.t " Yea, she is very earnest to see me once again, and declares her master is now so constantly...

...English civilisation is not very pleasantly reflected in the famous distich : — * A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree. The more you beat them, the better they be.' Pictures deserve, from their great number, and from their nature, to be ranked in the very first class...

...English civilization is not very pleasantly reflected in the famous distich : — A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. Pictures deserve, from their great number, and from their nature, to be ranked in the very first class...

...I could get hold of him. This done, I put him into an outhouse ; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness,...walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. Now, I am not going to question the effect of correction on the other subjects of this verse, but a...

...nature displays itself, and insolence ensues. The old maxim, slightly altered — A Kru-man, a dog, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be — applies well enough when the punishment is really deserved. It has always been an understood thing...

...loves him ! Women are strange creatures, I thoroughly believe in the old saying, " A woman, a dog, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be !" Yet such an angel as Katie ought to keep any man straight.' And as he thought of her a soft tender...

...fruit bearing powers, arose a couplet not very complimentary to the gentle sex : — " A woman, a dog, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be." The walnut-tree is said to have been introduced into Rome by Vitellius, who brought it from Greece....