'Twas time to run; and yet I had not thought My mother could have followed me so close, Her legs with age I thought had foundered; She made me quite run through a quickset hedge, Or she had taken me.

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But after following the high road for some time, sure that he was not being watched, he retraced his steps, quickly entered the little path, hedged with quicksets, which runs by the side of the gardens, and rapidly made the circuit of Althausen.

You cross the meadow as far as the little river, bordered with willows, then the chapel is reached by a hollow lane hedged with quicksets.

No one ever solved the great problem as to what services were rendered by Barker to his master, whose wig was "as impenetrable by a comb as a quickset hedge," and whose clothes were never touched by the brush.

We have seen that the town was originally the dwelling-place of a stationary clan, surrounded by palisades or by a dense quickset hedge.

Then, instead of the fragrant quickset hedge, there is a "worm fence"the rudest description of barrier known in the countrywhich consists simply of bars, about eight or nine feet in length, laid zig-zag on each other alternately: the improvement on this, and the ne plus ultra in the idea of a west country farmer, is what is termed a "post and rail fence."

For instance, in recommending a certain kind of quickset fence, he insists upon it as one of its advantagesthat it will not readily ignite under the torch of the mischievous wayfarer: "Naturale sepimentum," says he, "quod obseri solet virgultis aut spinis, praetereuntis lascivi non metuet facem.

The hedges are in full leaf, and the undergrowth, sprinkled with flowers, weaves its tapestry over the barer stems of the quicksets.

The garden, elsewhere so carefully and artistically tended, stretching from the Leipsic Street to the Palisades, which surrounded the town in lieu of a wall at that time, was here overgrown with underwood, protecting the more beautiful parts like a quickset hedge.

Or that, not mysticnot fabulous as the rest, but a real garden which Solomon made for his wife, the daughter of Pharoah, king of EgyptWARBURTON "Divested of harmonious Greek and bewitching poetry," observes Horace Walpole, "the garden of Alcinous was a small orchard and vineyard with some beds of herbs and two fountains that watered them, inclosed within a quickset hedge."

THE QUICKSET, or WHITE-THORN.This is in great request for making fences, and is the best plant we know for such purposes if properly managed.

" The very birds which rise from the clover or wheat, and nest in the trees or hedgerows of furze or quickset, are for the most part Englishthe skylark, the blackbird, finches, green and gold, thrushes, starlings, and that eternal impudent vagabond the house-sparrow.

It was desired that it should appear unkempt and uncombed, as if it had been drawn through a quickset hedge.