HANDFUL III. 



" Their heads 

 riowers raise, to greet the sun ; and man, too, lifts 

 Hie thankful soul to God for all these summer gifts." 



Ca£deb Cakpbeu.. 



What have we ? Honeysuckle^ certainly, by the 

 scent, before we see it, and the " bonny bluebell," 

 and the '' wee, modest, crimson-tipped " daisy, that 

 Burns wrote of, and that Chaucer well-nigh wor- 

 shipped as well as wrote of. These are almost 

 enough to make a handful of themselves. But 

 mind your fingers, for there should be prickly 

 thistles amid our gathering this time, and the 

 great ox-eye, or, as it is called in some places, horse- 

 daisy, and one of those plants which children call 

 wild chamomile (Fig. 43), and the yellow ragwort 

 (Fig. 44), with early spring colt's-foot, dandelion, 

 and a bunch of elder flowers. We will not pay our 

 readers the bad compliment to suppose they do not 

 know every plant we have just named ; probably, 

 too, they can tell the bedstraws and the woodruff. 



