And far away beyond the ditches and pools and the heaps was a forest on the mountain flank, growing again after the fires and cinder showers of the last eruption.

heaps of sweet cake (so called from its being in great part composed of molasses)and plum cakes, and curiously twisted nut-cakesand plates of thin shaven smoked beef, of new made cheese and butterand there were pies of pumpkin, peach, and apple, with dishes of preserves and pickles.

"Most likely they're true; although it's a safe bet that a heap of 'em was lies.

Notwithstanding the prevalence of the Baldwin and the Porter, I doubt if so extensive orchards are set out to-day in my town as there were a century ago, when those vast straggling cider-orchards were planted, when men both ate and drank apples, when the pomace-heap was the only nursery, and trees cost nothing but the trouble of setting them out.

The valley of Glencoe, too, is not far distant, with all its opposite associations of massacre and maurauder, by its severe and desert aspect, recalling to the traveller's mind the most elevated defiles of the Alps, and whose massive heaps of rocks covered with shaggy turf are the only charms to gladden the eye.

"A heap of dis young generation is triflin' as they can be.

That heap of splintered wardrobes and legless tables was once a furniture warehouse.

this shapeless heap of stones and earth Is the last relic of St. Herbert's Cell.

The heap was the refuse of the burnt iron, and was not a hard bed; the half-smothered warmth, too, penetrated her limbs, dulling their pain and cold shiver.