"All right," he said dubiously; "if that there tells you that he come a-past here, we'll foller this roadthough it 'pears to me like we ought to stick to the cyar.

It looked like cactus-pears, the basket closed.

When fresh fruit cannot be obtained, dried and foreign fruits, compotes, baked pears, stewed Normandy pippins, &c. &c., must supply its place, with the addition of preserves, bon-bons, cakes, biscuits, &c. At fashionable tables, forced fruit is served growing in pots, these pots being hidden in more ornamental ones, and arranged with the other dishes.(See coloured plate W1.)

Place a tumbler in the centre of the dish, and, in this tumbler, the pine, crown uppermost; round the tumbler put a thick layer of moss, and, over this, apples, pears, plums, peaches, and such fruit as is simultaneously in season.

Raspberry Vol-au-Vent Prawns. Tartlets. of Pears.

Vol-au-Vent of Pears.

Vol-au-Vent of Pears. Apple Tart.

2. Stewed pears and sponge cakes.

Flowers. of Pears.

Vol-au-Vent of Pears.

Vol-au-Vent of Pears.

Vol-au-Vent Vase of Gâteau. of Pears.

Filberts. Pears.

Pears. Figs.

Compôte of Pears.

During the summer I had often seen him taking up nice green things to them: celery, chickweed, tender cabbage, peaches, apples, pears, bananas; and now at Christmas time, he had green stuff growing in pots on the window ledge.

[Footnote 4: Sir Edwin Pears, "Forty Years in Constantinople," p.330.] 12.

Cherries are an early fruit, you may have them; and you may have the early apples and pears.'

"Here he had plate, servants, carriages, seventy horses, fifteen hundred apple trees, besides apricots, peaches, pears, quinces and mellicottons.

I then sailed for the eastern shore of Virginia, and at a place called Cherrystone traded off my damaged flour for a cargo of pears, with which I sailed for New York.

But by this time the pears were spoiled, and I was obliged to throw them overboard.

Pears, peaches, melons, grapes.

" The dessert consisted generally of baked pears, medlars, pealed walnuts, figs, dates, peaches, grapes, filberts, spices, and white or red sugar-plums.

They said you couldn't grow pears around there.

They had left the hot town for a stroll and a chat, And wandered on looking at this and at that, Plumed grass with pink clover that waltzed in the breeze, Ruby currants in gardens, and pears on the trees, Till a green church-yard showed them its sun-checkered gloom, And in they both went and sat down on a tomb.