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ing are made of beech wood, and great numbers are cut every year in the woods near the Downs.
Line 5.
"The shaggy dog following the truffle hunter."
Truffles are found under the beech woods, by means of small dogs trained to hunt them by the scent.
Page 41. Line 3.
"The banks with cuckoo-flowers are strewn."
Lychnis dioica.
Line 4.
"The woodwalks blue with columbines."
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
