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Proud of his skill, he insisted that all the suitors 
who aspired to the hand of his daughter should 
compete for the prize in a chariot-race with him. 
Pelops, who wished to obtain hiippodamia, pro¬ 
mised Myrtillus a large reward, if he would take 
out the linch pin of his master’s chariot. Myr- 
tillus was not proof against the offer: in conse¬ 
quence, the chariot was overturned and CEnomaiis 
killed : but, as he expired, he implored Pelops to 
avenge him, which he did, by throwing the trea¬ 
cherous attendant into the sea. The waters hav¬ 
ing borne back his body to the shore, Mercury 
changed it into the shrub, called, by a corruption 
from his name. Whortleberry, or Bilberry. It 
grows on the sea-shore in cool and shady places. 
Its pretty bell-flowers are succeeded by berries of 
a dark blue, of a tart and agreeable flavour. 
Truth, Bitter-sweet Nightshade, 'I’he ancients 
thought that Truth was the mother of Virtue, 
the daughter of Time, and queen of the world. 
It is a common saying with us that the Truth 
conceals herself at the bottom of a well, and that 
she always mingles some bitterness with her 
blessings: and we have given for her emblem a 
useless plant that, like her, delights in shade, and 
