150 BIRDS AND MAN 



same way that red flowers do, and have their 

 expression from the same cause. There is some 

 purple colour in most skins, and even some blue. 



The azured harebell, like thy veins, 



is a familiar verse from Cymbeline ; any one can 

 see the resemblance to the pale blue of that 

 admired and loved blossom in the blue veins 

 of any person with a delicate skin. Purples and 

 purplish reds in masses are mostly seen in young 

 persons of delicate skins and high colour in 

 frosty weather in winter, when the eyes sparkle 

 and the face glows with the happy sensations 

 natural to the young and healthy during and 

 after outdoor exercise. The skin purples and 

 purple-reds here described are beautiful, and 

 may be matched to a nicety in many flowers ; 

 the human purple may be seen (to name a very 

 common wild flower) in purple loosestrife and 

 the large marsh mallow, and in dozens and scores 

 of other famihar purple flowers ; and the purple- 

 red hue in many richly coloured skins has its 

 exact shade in common hounds' tongue, and in 

 other dark and purple-red flowers. But we 

 always find, I fancy, that the expression due to 



