The girl caught sight of him outside the gates, his face red and beaming as a poppy in bloom and his snowy moustache bristling with eagerness.

THE PIGEON true that, as report says, he has a secret for his amazing singing, a secret whereby his crow becomes the brilliant burst of red which makes the poppies of the field feel themselves contemptible imitations?

" A couplet which Pope echoes in the "Dunciad": "Shadwell nods, the poppy on his brows.

They lean lovingly together, with arms around each other, but the sweet countenance of Death has a cast of sorrow, as he stands with inverted torch and a wreath of poppies among his clustering locks.

"Birds, the free tenants of land, air, and ocean, Their forms all symmetry, their motions grace; In plumage delicate and beautiful; Thick without burthen, close as fishes' scales, Or loose as full-blown poppies to the breeze.

The plants of this class are almost all of them poisonous; the finest opium is procured by wounding the heads of large poppies with a three-edged knife, and tying muscle-shells to them to catch the drops.

The Poppies of Wu Fong, by Lee Foster Hartman (Harper's, November).

The last rays gilded the cliffs on either side of the entrance to the bay, and burnished the heads of the nodding poppies at our feet.

The fuchsias, big as babies' fists, the poppies like dolls' crêpe sunbonnets, the roses large enough for nightingales' nests, lost their colour, and seemed to go out in the dark, like brilliant bubbles that break into nothingness.

But this cannot go on,the thermometer is at 78 degrees in the shade,an intense and contagious stillness reigns through the house,some good genius waves a bunch of poppies near those little fretful faces, for which a frown is rather heavy artillery.

In February, unless the north wind sweeps down jealously and stays her hand, she flings a golden brocade of poppies over the green hillsides and the lower slopes which the forest has left her.

He carries a Tulip-root in his Pocket from one to another, or exchanges a Poppy between a Couple of Friends that live perhaps in the opposite Sides of the County.

Would you forget, oh sorrowful soul, Come and drink of this golden bowl, With jewelled poppies about the rim, Drink of the wine that flushes its brim, And drown all your haunting memories there, Your woe and your weary care.

She carried a child's parasol, which she was careful not to tear against the scrubby branches and bramble bushes as she sought for wild poppies along the edge of the fence.

A great babblement went across the open spacea babblement amidst which the gongs of the trams, ploughing their obstinate way through the mass, rose like red poppies amidst corn.

The crowd continues to thicken; the cafés are crammed; gold chignons are plentiful enough at every table; here and there a red Garibaldi shirt is visible, like poppies amongst the corn.

An hour later, Pearl Watson, in her best dress of brown silk, with her high brown boots well polished, and her small brown hat, made by herself, with a band of crushed burnt orange poppies around the crown, safely anchored and softened by a messaline drape; with her hair drawn over the tops of her ears, and a smart fawn summer coat, with buttons which showed a spot of red like a pigeon-blood ruby.

There were flowers, too, on the sitting-room tables and mantel, California poppies with flaming orange hearts.

The city grew up from three pointsthe Mission"I pulled a poppy from my bouquet and placed it on the table to mark the old adobe"the Presidio"I moved a salt cellar to the right of the flower"and the town of Yerba Buena," this I indicated by a pepper box below the other two.