So when we think fate hovers o’er our heads, And troubled blood through his pale face was seen 
Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds. —Zee, As it a running messenger had been. —spenser. 
— Spenser. 
MAGINATION frames events unknown AM fearful; wherefore frowns he thus? 
In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, Tis an aspect of terror. All’s not well. 
\ And what it fears creates! —Hannah More. --Shakespeare, ' 
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Cactus--Suake. 
Cereus flagelliformis. NatTurRAL OrvDER: Cactacee —Cactus Family. 
“arid plains of South America. The stem is about half an 
Winch in diameter, having ten angles, and attaining the 
olength of five or six feet. It is much too frail to stand 
alone, and should be supported on a trellis or tied to an 
upright stick. The flowers are extremely handsome, coming 
out from the clusters of spines that adorn the stem. The tube is long 
number of days, when they are succeeded continuously by others for 
"several weeks. 
You Gerrify Qe. 
FEEL my sinews slacken’d with the fright, 
And a cold sweat thrills down all o’er my limbs, 
As if I were dissolving into water. —Dryden. 
HEN the sun sets, shadows that show’d at noon IS hand did quake 
But small appear most long and terrible; And tremble like a leaf of aspen green, 
EXT him was fear, all arm’d from top to toe, 
Yet thought himself not safe enough thereby, 
But fear’d each shadow moving to or fro, 
And his own arms when glittering he did spy, 
Or clashing heard, he fast away did fly; 
As ashes pale of hue, and wingéd heel’d, 
And evermore on danger fix’d his eye, 
’Gainst whom he always bent a brazen shield, 
Which his right hand unarmed fearfully did wield. 
