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A TOUB KOUND MY GAEDEN. 



and eat it down closely; but this injury only serves to make 

 it bloom again in the autumn, which it would not otherwise 

 have done. The learned are worse than the cattle ; they dry 

 it, and flatten it down in their herbals, and called it, Myosotis 

 scorpioides — Soorpion-shaped mouse's ear I They have been 

 reproached for giving it this name by a brother savant, named 

 Charles Nodier, but who, as weU as being learned, was a man 

 of wit and sense. 



