118 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



DIFFICULTY. 



BLACK-THORN. Prunus spinosa. 



" or sloes austere, 



Hard fare ! but such as boyish appetite 

 Disdains not." 



Cowper. 



It is difficult to penetrate a thick fence of 

 black-thorn ; some persons make a difficulty 

 of walking over a heath, others who mistake 

 impossibilities for difficulties, can only be 

 convinced by conviction, which frequently 

 comes too late. 



