I

SEE the wealthy Miller yet,

His double chin, his portly size, And who that knew him could forget The busy wrinkles round his eyes? The slow, wise smile that round about His dusty forehead dryly curl'd Seem'd half-within and half-without

And full of dealings with the world.

I loved the brimming wave that swam
Through quiet meadows round the mill,
The sleepy pool above the dam,-
The pool beneath it never still,
The meal-sacks on the whiten'd floor,
The dark round of the dripping wheel,

The very air about the door,

Made misty with the floating meal.

The Miller's Daughter. - TENNYSON.

THE CARPENTER

PLANE TREE, PLATANUS.

SAW PALMETTO, SABAL SERRULATA.

USEFUL SCREW PINE, PANDANUS

UTILIS.

THE

HE sound of tools to a clever
workman, who loves his work,

is like the tentative sounds of the orchestra to the violinist who has to bear his part in the overture; the strong fibres begin their accustomed thrill.

- Adam Bede. — GEO. ELIOT.

What grand beeches! Adam delighted in a fine tree of all things. As the fisherman's sight is keenest on the sea, SO Adam's perceptions were more at home with trees than with other objects. He kept them in his memory, as a painter does, with all the flecks and knots in their bark, all the curves and angles of their boughs; and had often calculated the height and contents of a trunk to a nicety, as he stood looking at it.

Adam Bede. —GEO. ELIOT.