204 FIRST STEPS IN GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. 



bringing on a kind of intoxication in cats ; a few 

 words on the SCABIOUS tribe must close our present 

 conversation." 



The large purple flower-heads of the field 

 scabious had sometimes tempted the children a 

 few steps among the standing corn ; and they also 

 knew the devil's-bit scabious, which they had dug 

 tip in the meadows on purpose to see the root. 



FULLERS' TEASEL, (tiipsacusfullonum.) 



which is black, and ends abruptly, so that old 

 stories say the devil, envious of its good qualities, 



