"Bear blue, apples and pears enoug';
Barn fulls, bag fulls, sack fulls. Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!"
Query, Do these customs prevail to this day either in Devonshire or in other European countries?
R. R.
POETICAL IMITATION.
It has always been a pleasing office of criticism, to observe how often an excellent thought, having sprung from some master mind, or from some inferior mind in a happy moment, has been used by succeeding writers.
Homer,
"à quo, ceu fonte perenni,
Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis,"
has, in Il. v. 406. et seq., the following lines: