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the sheep across it for such a purpose. Therefore, knowing the 
Greek word “ meelon” to signify both a sheep and an apple, 
they substituted the latter, having stuck wooden pegs in its 
under surface to represent the sheep’s legs; and this fruit they 
dedicated to the god always afterwards. 
Very pathetic are the verses of Christopher Cranch (1880) in 
Busy, Crowded New York City, touching 
THE Oxup APPLE Woman. 
** She sits by the side of a turbulent stream, 
That rushes’and rolls for ever, 
Up and down like a weary dream 
In the trance of a burning fever : 
Up and down in the long Broadway 
It flows with its endless paces ; 
Down and up through the noisy day, 
A river of feet, and of faces. 
Withered and dry like a leafiess bush 
That clings to the bank of a torrent. 
Year in, year out, in the whirl and the push, 
She sits, of the city’s current. 
Apples and cakes, and candy to sell, 
Daily before her lying ; 
The ragged newsboys know her well, 
The rich never think of buying. 
Year in, year out, in her dingy shawl, 
The wind and the rain she weathers, 
Patient and mute at her humble stall; 
But few are the coppers she gathers, 
The loud carts rattle in thunder and dust, 
Gay Fashion sweeps by in its coaches. 
With an absent stare she mumbles her crust, 
Being past complaint, and reproaches : 
Yet in her heart there remains the hope 
Of a Father’s love, and pity: 
For her the clouded skies shall ope’, 
And the gates of a heavenly City.” 
As a remedy against pride, “ Bear in mind,” said Spurgeon, 
““we are all descended from a certain disreputable old gardener, 
who was turned out of his Master’s garden for stealing His 
apples.” 
The wild Apple tree (scrab, or crab), armed with thorns, grows 
in our fields, and hedgerows, furnishing verjuice in its fruit, 
which abounds with tannin, and is highly astringent, being of 
very helpful use against some forms of chronic diarrhvea. For 
