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WAYFARERS 



Wild Cherry of cordial -yielding fruit and poisonous 

 leaf, for the flowers are similar. But whosoever 

 in early August mistakes the one for the other, 

 and eats the dark red, translucent fruit, will dis- 

 cover the mistake, and learn also at the same time 

 from what the plant derives its name, by promptly 

 choking, as poor Flower Hat did; because, though I 

 had warned her, she could not believe that any- 

 thing that "looked so well could be so perfectly 

 horrible quite as bad as the nitrate of silver that 

 I had my throat swabbed with last winter." 



Her second experience with the deceptive fruit 

 of the Wild Crab Apple, a beautiful but astringent 

 member of a kindred family, was equally distressing. 



