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Here is the cornel, whose lovely blooms filled the forest with butterfly beauty, it seems no longer ago than yesterday. Today I find the cornel foliage green still as to midrib and veining, but with the woof of the leaf gone such a fine apple red that it is surely good enough to eat. If color counts the deer should find rich browse in the shrubbery these days.
From the dwarf cornel, or bunch-berry, in the woods, to the red thorn in the fields, every fruit-bearing plant and shrub and tree seems to advertise itself to the passer-by in its bright hues. Apparently there is no other use to the plant of the fleshy pericarp than to serve as a bait or wage for some animal to come and sow its seed.
So we went round to the school, and waited till 't was out. He had to go on an errand for his father this afternoon, and so was excused early. "Burt Sehl is the boy's name, and Cornelius and I walked along with him till we got off the street Cornel' was sharp enough not to tackle him near the school.
"When I sailed to Rigy, Cornel," the first mate was speaking nor can any spelling nor combination of letters of which I am master, reproduce this gentleman's accent when he was talking his best "I racklackt they used always to sairve us a drem before denner. And as your frinds are kipping the denner, and as I've no watch to-night, I'll jist do as we used to do at Rigy.
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