~The Love of the People for the Duke of Shaou~ O fell not that sweet pear-tree!

O touch not that sweet pear-tree!

~Lament of a Bereaved Person~ A russet pear-tree rises all alone, But rich the growth of leaves upon it shown!

will not wounding the branch of a pear-tree, which is too vigorous, prevent the blossoms from falling off; as from some fig-trees the fruit is said to fall off unless they are wounded by caprification?

And he threw himself down at the foot of the great pear-tree.

The blossoms had all fallen from the pear-tree now, and through the thinned branches he could see Victorine's window distinctly.

At last, half in earnest and half in fun, she struck boldly into a measure on which she would hardly have ventured could she have seen the serious and tender expression on the face of her listener under the pear-tree.

He had an instinct that it would be better not to be seen under the pear-tree.

Then the king's son waited till her father came home, and said to him, "The unknown lady has slipped away, and I think she must have sprung into the pear-tree."

what drives thee here, to be sitting Under the pear-tree alone?

There's a ringin', singin' gladness in the tunes the blackbirds pipe When they're tellin' from the pear-tree that the Bartletts's nigh ter ripe; There's a kind of jolly fatness where the Baldwin apples shine, And the juicy Concord clusters are a-purplin' on the vine; And the cornstalks, turnin' yaller and a-crinklin' up their leaves, Look as if they kind er hankered ter be bundled inter sheaves;

"And the walnuts waited, and the sun kissed their hard skins, and the rain refreshed them when dry and thirsty; and still the sparrows mocked them, and the apple and pear-tree talked to each other over their heads, for they too looked upon them as a failure.

"And then at last one day, when the apple and pear-tree were fruitless and leafless, when the flowers and butterflies and bees had all disappeared, down the garden came the master himself and the gardener.

In the yard behind the house there is a wide-spreading and prolific pear-tree planted by his hands.

I take in none that do not naturally rejoice in the Soil, and am pleased when I am walking in a Labyrinth of my own raising, not to know whether the next Tree I shall meet with is an Apple or an Oak, an Elm or a Pear-Tree.

CHAPTER I. IN THE PEAR-TREE.

Joyce was crying, up in old Monsieur Gréville's tallest pear-tree.

This was not the first time that the old pear-tree had been shaken by Joyce's grief, and it knew that her spells of homesickness always ended in this way.

" It was getting cold up in the pear-tree.

Joyce took refuge in the pear-tree.

Taking no notice of it, Joyce turned aside to the pear-tree and climbed up among the highest branches.

She fairly bubbled over with the peace and good-will of the approaching Christmas-tide, and rocked the cat back and forth in the pear-tree to the tune of a happy old-time carol.

There were, he whispered, certain very fair and pleasant-spoken maids just over the wall, that which you could climb easily enough by the branches of the pear-tree that grew contiguous at the south corner.

A PEASANT'S THOUGHTS The first snow, in large and thick flakes, fell gently and silently on the barren branches of the ancient pear-tree, standing like a sentinel at my house door.

So the curate of Buckland, living at the Pear-tree Cottage in Rodden, required a pony for locomotion, which he showed with some pride to his neighbours on first buying it.