BLACKBIRD A prophecy-sharp?Say, wisteria, we are twisted up with laughter!

Over the River of Myth, which is one with the Waters of Fable, go bridges, fashioned like the wisteria tree and like the drooping laburnum, and a hundred others of wonderful devices, the desire of the souls of masons a long while dead.

Tib [a little dog] and the Wisterias,also the mares and the billiard-table.

" They worked like Trojans, and, sitting beneath the wisteria tree that climbed the southern wall of the cottage, Mrs. Bittacy with her knitting watched them, calling from time to time insignificant messages of counsel and advice.

They were seated in the shade of the wisteria, and the two were close upon them before they heard their voices.

R622873. Wisteria Cottage.

R622873. Wisteria Cottage.

By the light of smoking oil-lamps people were selling flowers and shrubswicked little dwarf pines, stunted peach and plum trees, wisteria bushes clipped and twisted out of all likeness to wholesome plants, leaning and leering out of green-glaze pots.

I liked the solid air of the big house, which had two wings at the back, corresponding to the wings in front; the long row of stone pedimented windows, with heavy white casements, was plain and stately, and there were some fine magnolias and wisterias trained upon the walls.

It is a beautiful town among low mountains green to the summit, and in the streets not a few lovely homes of the Virginia colonial type, draped with ivy and wisteria.