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IRONY, 
SARDONY. 
Sardony has some resemblance to pars¬ 
ley ; it contains a poison which is said to 
contract the mouth in so peculiar a manner, 
that the individual affected seems to laugh in 
expiring. This horrible laugh has been 
named Risus Sardonicus, or Sardonic laugh¬ 
ter. It is that which we see playing on the 
lips of Satire, and on those of cold irony. 
JOY. 
WOOD SORREL. 
The wood sorrel, vulgarly called “ cuckoo’s 
bread,” flowers very freely about Easter. 
This pretty little plant shuts its leaves, closes 
its corollas, and the flowers hang pendent 
and drooping from the stems. They seem 
to yield themselves to sleep ; but at the first 
dawn of day we may say that they are filled 
