...is still in the possession of the ¡family. — MORAL. — Three things, says the rude old proverb : A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. To these things, for which a little wholesome drubbing is to be prescribed, may be added a...

...is still in the possession of the family. — MOEAL. — Three things, says the rude old proverb : A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. To these things, for which a little wholesome drubbing is to be prescribed, may be added a...

...considered of much force, and if acted upon, might lead to some embarrassment. The old rhyming proverb ,"A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them, the better they be." seems to intimate that the tide of popular opinion alwayi ran strongly in favour of physical-force...

...There's nothing like beating for some things," continued Baldwin. " You know the old Kentish saw — " A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree — The more you beat them, the better they be." " I should be sincerely sorry for any one who attempted to improve me in that fashion \"...

...the door, while his good and had angel has a struggle for him. The bad angel wins : " Don't give in : a woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they be." So he strides away with two red spots like live burning coals burning on his cheeks, and...

...fashion of settling such connubial difficulties. It's an old saying, friend Alexis, that a dog, a wife, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they'll be. Allow me to recommend it. The method is rarely know to fail among us. Ah ! if you had only seen my...

...shaking to bring the firmly-attached fruits down, and in connection with this comes the couplet, ' A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat 'em, the better they be !' The statement may apply to our fruit-tree, but humanity and gallantry forbid...

...probably, by some beer-sodden bacon-chewer, and therefore, in those ancient times, non inventus — A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat 'em, the better they be — else, what need for him to consult King Solomon about his paltry domestic...

...the age ; the horrors of slavery were found to be not necessary and not irremediable ; the old maxim, "A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat 'era the better they'll be," has been found, in the growing light of the ages, to be false so far as...

...occasion and cudgelled her so soundlv that she gave him an excellent dinner. Verily the saying — A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they be — must be of Russian origin. Yet do I doubt that any Muscovite will move the Morte Stone....