The gay party went out in the grove, and wandering about in the brilliant October sunlight, gathered primroses and other autumn flowers, which, making into bunches, they topped with fine slender, palm-like golden rods:and so, passing on, came to the old glen behind, and just beneath the acclivity which made the western horizon of Apple Orchard.

As the victim of inebriety sees snakes, I saw primroses.

Meanwhile, of afternoons we pick up primroses at Dalston, and Mary corrects me when I call 'em cowslips.

There were growing primroses on the table, and the sunlight streamed in at the window.

She began with fingers that trembled to pluck the primroses that grew in a large tuft close to her, saying no word.

It is evening, though the sun has not yet set, but it is evening, and the young man is sitting at a small oak table in a recess in one of the ancient windows, and before him lies open a book, and on the book, which he touches not with his hands, but on which his eyes, blinded by tears, are fixed, there lies a faded primrose.

Considerably in the background, too, were the grotesque performances of his rural life, when, making up for the character of a country gentleman, he "rode an Arabian mare for thirty miles across country without stopping," attended Quarter Sessions in drab breeches and gaiters, and wandered about the lanes round Hughenden pecking up primroses with a spud.

Daisies, cowslips, and buttercups, the flowers of rural well-being, show through the rising grass of the fields; along the hedges and crumbling walls of the lanes peep timid primroses and violets, and in wilder spots the Alpine gentian, intensely blue.

The primrose on the river's brim he saw with a vision as clear as that of a photographic lens, but it remained to him a primrose and nothing more to the end.

" Then, while the children still ran about, seeking early primroses among the mosses, Mathieu came and sat down beside Marianne, who, he saw, was quivering.

It is open for you to marry whom you choose, the lady who is selling primroses at the corner of the Square if you wish.

of course they would flourish here; and having sent them primroses, cowslips, ivy, and many other English wild flowers, which took Theodore Sedgwick's fancy, I have a right to the return.

Her long black hair fell on the grass, and among itlike an early starwas the first primrose of the year.

WILLARD ANSLEY GIBSON '08 She told me of her garden, all the flowers, Of hallowed lilies and the glories bright, Frail tinted cups filled with the morning's light; The primrose drooping for the evening hours.

"Yes." "What then?" "Why, of course, I thought yellow primroses would'nt become you;now they would suit meI'm so dark.

" Now Julia was surprised and pleased at Percy's good sense, and she did not care whether he got it from the newspapers or where he got it from; it was there; so she resisted, and said, coldly and firmly, "Thank you, uncle, but I don't want the primroses, and Walter does not want me.

I had been down the lanes and brought in five tiny starved primroses with short stems, for which Betsey scolded me soundly, telling me that the first brood of chickens was always the same in number as the first primroses brought into the house.

He satirizes those who could do nothing more than correctly apply the color "yellow" to the primrose: "A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him

" Yet Nature surely never ranges, Ne'er quits her gay and flowery crown; But, ever joyful, merely changes The primrose for the thistle-down. 'Tis we alone who, waxing old, Look on her with an aspect cold, Dissolve her in our burning tears, Or clothe her with the mists of years!

But why for their instrument of torture did they choose primroses?

Ben Jonson, however, describes the primrose as a wedded lady"the Spring's own Spouse"though she is certainly more commonly regarded as the daughter of Spring not the wife.

201) writes:"My gravity was sorely tried by being called on to settle a quarrel between two old women, arising from one of them having given one primrose to her neighbour's child, for the purpose of making her hens hatch but one egg out of each set of eggs, and it was seriously maintained that the charm had been successful."