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are made of beech wood, and great numbers are cut every year in the woods near the Downs.

Aquilegia vulgaris. Shakspeare describes the Cuckoo buds as being yellow. He probably meant the numerous Ranunculi, or March marigolds (Caltha palustris,) which so gild the meadows in Spring; but poets have never been