WHEA T. 



in the churchyard of West Plarptre, Somersetshire, said to 

 have been brought from St. Helena, where Napoleon, from 

 1815 to 1822, had leisure to review his nineteen years of life, 

 spent amid scenes of carnage and bloodshed, and to mourn 

 over the schemes of ambition, which he had planned and 

 striven to carry out, frustrated and annihilated. This now 

 magnificent tree is stated to hav^e been planted by the 

 Rev. G. T. Hudson, vicar, 1837-42. 



WHEAT.— Riches. 



" Now Vi-.-iving grain, wide o'er the plain, 

 Delights the weary farmer," — BURNS. 



WHEN he, seated upon a rustic stile, looks down, right and 

 left, upon the valleys beneath, standing so thick with corn, 

 that they seem to laugh and sing; and thither we would 

 gladly wend our way to share his pleasure, as if in answer to 

 Miss Twamley's summons, 



" Come, let us rest on yon rude stile where stand 

 The village children, and look o'er the sea 

 Of golden-coloured grain, that waves beneath 

 The gentle breath of the soft Summer's day." 



i\Teet emblem of Riches is the golden v/heat, for is it not to 

 the children of men the most important element of that 

 annual shower of wealth which falls, as it were, direct from 

 heaven, to feed and sustain in life, not only the human race, 

 but every living thing that hath breath ! And the abundance, 



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