Let me place before you the extracts, which I have culled from the papers.

And at a common feast with gracious words Jason received them and made them friendly cheer, culling for five long nights and days the sacred flower of joyous life.

In October of this year Crabbe was again working hard at his botanyfor like the Friar in Romeo and Juliet his time was always much divided between the counselling of young couples and the "culling of simples"when his household received the tidings of the death of John Tovell of Parham, after a brief illness.

Hollerius, &c. that have culled out of those old Greeks, Arabians, and Latins, whatsoever is observable or fit to be used.

With such horses to offer, she could pick and cull among the best "punchers" in the West.

I send a leaf of geranium, which I culled in the garden of the Tartar general.

My lady, too, With all her maidens, early sallied forth, A pilgrimage among the neighbouring vales, Culling of simples, nor yet comes she home;

It is pleasant (he said)perhaps it is one of the sweetest flowers we cull on the path of this rugged lifeto find ourselves among old friends after a long absence, and to find their hearts beat as true and warm as ever.

We append some extracts, culled at random from these jocund pages: THE SHAH'S ROMANCE.

cull with snowy hands, The buds that drink the morning showers, And bind the realms in flow'ry bands: Thy smiles the angry passions chase, Thy glance is pleasure's native grace; Around thy form th' exulting virtues move, And thy soft call awakes the strain of love.