has many synonyms; in an imperfect state, it is the Cholera
morbifera aut dysenterifera, puerulis dilectissima; [Footnote:The
apple that brings the disease of cholera and of dysen-tery, the
fruit that small boys like best.]--the Apple which Atalanta stopped
to pick up; the Hedge-Apple (Malus Sepium); the Slug-Apple
(limacea); the Railroad-Apple, which perhaps came from a core thrown
out of the cars; the Apple whose Fruit we tasted in our Youth; our
Particular Apple, not to be found in any catalogue,--Pedestrium
Solatium; [Footnote: The tramp's comfort.] also the Apple where
hangs the Forgotten Scythe; Iduna's Apples, and the Apples which
Loki found in the Wood; [Footnote See p. 172 (Proof readers note:
paragraph 25)] and a great many more I have on my list, too numerous
to mention,--all of them good. As Bodaeus exclaims, referring to the
culti-vated kinds, and adapting Virgil to his case, so I, adapting
Bodaeus,--

"Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths,
An iron voice, could I describe all the forms
And reckon up all the names of these wild apples."





THE LAST GLEANING.




By the middle of November the wild apples have lost some of their