" "Yes, Miss Patty," said Pansy, and, though she cast a lingering farewell glance at the beloved posies, she went cheerfully about her duties.

It is like one of father's posies.

I just wouldn't go a-busting any more of these posies.

RING A RING O' ROSES Ring a ring o' roses, A pocketful of posies.

They cast the thumb under the girdle, gravity; and because they can hardly smell at all their posies are under their girdles.

Sacculi, or little bags of herbs, flowers, seeds, roots, and the like, applied to the head, heart, stomach, &c., odoraments, balls, perfumes, posies to smell to, all which have their several uses in melancholy, as shall be shown, when I treat of the cure of the distinct species by themselves.

(And with a weary gesture he points to the orchids, as though they were things of which, not impossibly, "posies" might be made.)

We waded the creek, made mud pies, and gathered posies in the narrow glades between the cottonwood, beech, and alder trees.

"An oil-stove, two burnersand food, and beautiful plates with posies on 'emand tin spoons!

Me it delights, in mellow Autumn tide, To mark the pleasaunce that mine eye surrounds: The forest-trees like coloured posies pied: The upland's mealy grey, and russet grounds; Seeking for joy, where joyaunce most abounds; Not found, I ween, in courts and halls of pride, Where folly feeds, or flattery's sighs and sounds,

Some are for Violets, some are for Roses, Some for Peniriall, some for Bee Balm, When they go church-along carrying posies (Smell 'em and glance at the lads in the psalm); I am for Southernwood, Southernwood, Southernwood (Lad's Love 'tis called by the home-folk hereby), All in the summertime, summertime, summertime Lad's Love 'tis called, and for lad's love am I. W.B. * *

"Up the | dewy | mountain, | Health is | bounding | lightly; On her | brows a | garland, | twin'd with | richest | posies: Gay is |

Not one of those dainty posies with dropping sprays one sees in the Paris shops, but a good lump of flowers, arranged like a cauliflower, evidently the work of the Tilchester florist.

The flowers carried by those cavalry officers seemed to me like funeral wreaths upon men who were doomed to die, and the women who sprang out of the crowds with posies for their men were offering the garlands of death.

There were posies in their kepis, and bouquets were pinned by the plump hands of peasant girls to the jackets of the soldiers of the line, gunners, cuirassiers, dragoons, and fusiliers marins.

The men wore posies in their képis.

May the rustling harvest hedgerow Still the Traveller's Joy entwine, And as happy children gather Posies once mine.

Sang Kit Marlowe: "And I will make her beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.

Where the breath o' y'r breathin' falls, the meadows is greener, Fresher o' color, right and left, and the weeds and the grasses Sprout up as juicy as can be, and posies o' loveliest colors Blossom as brightly as wink, and bees come and suck 'em.

At the sign o' the Eagle in Todtnau Set for a while; then, sure o' my way, tramped off ag'in, home'ards, Nigh by the village, I reckoned,but found myself climbin' the Feldberg, Lured by the birdies, and down by the brooks the beautiful posies: That's a weakness

Her temper's always gay, and bright, Her face like posies red and white, Both red and white, And eyes like posies blue.

Her temper's always gay, and bright, Her face like posies red and white, Both red and white, And eyes like posies blue.

And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.

Cottage, garden-beds, posies, grenadier-like rows of seedling onions,stateliest of vegetables,all are gone, but the breath of a marigold brings them all back to me.

[Illustration: "Mary Pennington, aged two years, three months, and ten days"] Bud Perkins walked to the freshly-made mound where his father lay, and scattered his posies over it.