"Isn't it papaw?"

"No, sir, that ain't papaw;" and then, as if he had just remembered something, he added, "That's dog banana.

Oven-bird, Oxalis, yellow, Papaw, Paroquet, Partridge-berry, Pelican: brown, white, Persimmon, Phoebe, Pipewort, Poison Ivy, Poppy, Mexican, Quail, Rail: Carolina, clapper, king, Redbird (Cardinal Grosbeak), "Ricebird".

ASIMINA TRILOBA.Virginian Papaw.

One day having eaten of the papaw fruit, at the foot of that rock she planted the seeds.

Soon after several papaws sprung up, amongst which was one that yielded fruit.

Paul was no less overwhelmed and affected at the sight of this great papaw tree, loaded with fruit, than is the traveller, when, after a long absence from his own country, he finds not his contemporaries, but their children, whom he left at the breast, and whom he sees are become fathers of families.

"At the foot of this papaw I was always sure to meet with Paul when he came into our neighbourhood.

He who, from the soil which he cultivates, draws forth one additional sheaf of corn, serves mankind more than he who presents them with a book.' "'Oh! she then,' exclaimed Paul, 'who planted this papaw tree, made a present to the inhabitants of the forest more dear and more useful than if she had given them a library.'

A discovery of a tooth of the Mastodon has lately been made in the bed of the Papaw River, in Berrian County, Michigan.

"You are one of the most high-toned beauties in the sunny South, the land of the magnolia and the papaw.

The papayas, which the British call mammee-apple or even mummy-apple or papaw, because of the West Indian name, mamey, are much like pumpkins in appearance.

He met them, that day, out by the stone quarry, and touched his hat as he returned Lois's "Good-morning," and took a couple of great papaws from her.

One day Lois had heard him say that there were papaws on his mother's place in Ohio; so after that she always brought him some every day.

"A's fish that comes to the net," should be painted on the sign at Papaw grove.

Of presenting papaw With a new son-in-law, Down at the beach, If a man's within reach.

The dry weather continued and presently he notes that all the poplars, black gums and pines, most of the mulberries, all of the crab apples and papaws, most of the hemlock and sassafras, and several of the cedars are dead, while the tops of the live oaks are dead but shoots are coming up from the trunks and roots.

The shuddering mother, with her baby, was taken along with them to a cave, in which they hid her and the wounded Indian; and then with untold fatigue, hardship, and suffering, for her brutal captors gave her for food only a few papaw nuts and the head of a wild turkey, she was taken to the Indian towns.

At the time of our visit there were few fruits ripe; but when we were about to sail the mango of delicious flavour began to be common; besides which there were coconuts, guavas, papaws, grapes, the letchy (or let-chis, a Chinese fruit) and some indifferent pineapples.

Some of the lanes, in which, on one occasion I lost my way, about dusk, would have reminded me of those of the south of England on a fine autumnal eve, were it not for the scattered palms and papaw trees in the hedgerows, and the hedges themselves occasionally consisting of the coffee plant, concealing clumps of banana and sugar-cane.