Hevbervy, 
Berberis vulgaris. Narurar Orver: Berberidacee—Berberry Family. 
shrub is very generally known. The leaves are a dark green, 
with serrated edges, each notch being bristly. The flowers 
are yellow, hanging in small clusters. The fruit is brilliant 
and attractive, of a bright scarlet in color, oblong in shape, 
ee. than anything else. The leaves, as well as fruit, have a sharp acid 
»@) taste, the latter being frequently used for making jelly, while from the 
A Sour Disposition, 
HOSE hearts that start at once into a blaze, 
And open all their rage, like summer storms 
At once discharged, grow cool again and calm. 
—C. Fohnson. 
IE! wrangling queen! HE ocean lash’d to fury loud, 
Whom everything becomes — to chide, to laugh, Its high wave mingling with the cloud, 
To weep. Whose every passion fully strives Is peaceful, sweet serenity, 
To make itself in thee, fair and admired. To anger’s dark and stormy sea. 
—Shakespeare. —I. W. Eastburn. 
HEN anger rushes, unrestrain’d, to action, 
Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way: 
The man of thought strikes deepest, and strikes safest. 
—Savage. 
Y rage is not malicious; like a spark LL furious as a favor'd child 
Of fire by steel enforc’d out of flint, Balk’d of its wish; or, fiercer still, 
It is no sooner kindled, but extinct. A woman piqued, who has her will. 
—Goffe. —Byron. 
HE is peevish, sullen, froward, 
Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty; 
Neither regarding that she is my child, 
Nor fearing me as if I were her father. 
— Shakespeare. 
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