Several fine old pear-trees and a few of the choicest varieties of plum and cherry were scattered over it; currants and gooseberries lined the fences; the main alley, running through its whole extent, was thickly bordered by lilacs, syringas, and roses, with many showy flowers intermixed, and terminated in a very pleasant grape-arbor.

He hoped my old attachment to the place"at these words Uncle Philip's voice became quite hoarse suddenly"Maxa, your plum-cake is so sweet it makes one hoarse," he said, for he would never admit that he had been overcome by deep emotion.

"I don't think, Prudy, it's the turkey and plum pudding we're going to have that makes me so happydo you?"

" "Is that all?" "No, sir; for plum pudding.

When one of 'em is in office the other goes around saying that the gent that has the plum is a crook; and then Anderson goes out, and Armstrong comes in, and Anderson says the same thing about Armstrong.

and his plum cake, 142. on married people, 144.

Captain B. preferred the Trungah, another first-rate sort, which are plum-shaped, and taste something like a plum.

You mustn't say 'by the sweat of the brow,' but 'by the perspiration'perspiration is refined and sweat is coarseand to-day I learned for the first time that it's wrong to say 'Mrs. Henry Peterby of Plum Creek, née Jennie McCormick, spent Sunday with her parents of this city.'

V. THE DEAD MAN'S PLUM BUSH.

"Never pluck a single plum from this brush, my child, for its roots are wrapped around an Indian's skeleton.

While he lived he was so fond of playing the game of striped plum seeds that, at his death, his set of plum seeds were buried in his hands.

While he lived he was so fond of playing the game of striped plum seeds that, at his death, his set of plum seeds were buried in his hands.

After that time I halted in my ramblings whenever I came in sight of the plum bush.

The lasting impression of that day, as I recall it now, is what my mother told me about the dead man's plum bush.

Crossing a ravine thicketed with low shrubs and plum bushes, we approached a large yellow acre of wild sunflowers.

" "And a slice of plum puddin' to top off with," suggested Morse, bringing his own memory into play.

The new place had an orchard of about four acres, consisting of a variety of apple, peach, pear and plum trees.

Jennie Plum is quite friendly with Mollie.

"Ubi plum nitent in carmine non ego paucis offendar maculis.

“She’s a plum,” says the overlander.

Plum-trees were brought from Damascus and sugar-cane from Tripoli.

They'd think you was plum crazy.

Oh, I was drunk, plum drunk.

All the business of mankind has presently vanished; the whole world has kept holiday; there have been no men but heroes and poets, no women but nymphs and shepherdesses; trees have borne fritters, and rivers flowed plum-porridge.

Before long she could take nothing but a little wine and water, and finally only pure water; sometimes, but very rarely, she managed to swallow the juice of a cherry or a plum, but she immediately vomited any solid food, taken in ever so small a quantity.