. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . long that the pesky stuff would ketchye arter a while. Well, thar, goodness and truth ! Timean time agin, when Ive been goin by the gate an seenthem air children playin in the summer-house vender,its made me feel tarnal ticklish, an Ive sed time andagin, an tole Betsy so tew, that Id bet my best gobblertheyd be broke out afore a week, an no\v theyve doneit; an if you take my advice, youll cut the pesky weeddown an burn it afore the hull on ye is ketched. Youneednt look so surprised, Squire. What Imtellin y
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . long that the pesky stuff would ketchye arter a while. Well, thar, goodness and truth ! Timean time agin, when Ive been goin by the gate an seenthem air children playin in the summer-house vender,its made me feel tarnal ticklish, an Ive sed time andagin, an tole Betsy so tew, that Id bet my best gobblertheyd be broke out afore a week, an no\v theyve doneit; an if you take my advice, youll cut the pesky weeddown an burn it afore the hull on ye is ketched. Youneednt look so surprised, Squire. What Imtellin ye is fer yure own good. That air weed ispizen-shumake, an itll nigh on to kill some folks. Such advice, coming from a practical farmerin whom the Squire had perfect confidence,was immediately acted upon. The vineswhich had embowered the beautiful arbor fora generation were sawed off at the to think that a peep into the botanymight have saved them! Four things need to be committed tomemory to insure safety against our poison-sumachs : First. The poison-ivy has three 94 SHARP EYES Second. TJic five-leaved is harmless. Third. The poison-sumachs have ivhitc berries. Fourth. No red-berried sumach is poisonous. Both the poison-ivy and the poison-sumach, thoughunlike in appearance of foliage, have similar ivhite ber-ries growing in small slender clusters from the axils ofthe leaves. In all other sumachs the berries are red,even in the other three-leaved species Rlnts aromatica^and in close bunches at the ends of the branches, andfar from being dangerous, yield a frosty-looking acid\vhich is most agreeable to the taste, and wholesomewithal. With these simple precepts fixed in the mind, no oneneed fear the dangers of the thickets. But for the ben-efit of that numerous class who cant remember whichit is, whether the five-leaved or the three-leaved thatis poisonous, I would offer the following simple six-line jingle, which may easily be committed to memoryand will prov
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