Burs And Beggar Ticks

My setter comes out oí tlue uiulerwoods, a,fter orae of lïis ineursive raiiiiMfee, giaraiisilued with striiigs oí green VstJctoeins" apd vribh harsh, brown 'burs cliinging tieuaciously to tdie long iea.tliery hairs of bis taili a-ad abomt tfe li-Tgs a(nd oars. I liav kepb in llhe mpoiv path to avoid these pests of lli autimiiii woods onlft' to flud tliut tlieiy liava luid' f ast hold upoa niv ölothes wliian by same unwitting sliep I bruslued agaiiast the bocder thng'le. In pickilng t'liettïi off I notóce tJuelr curious foi-raa and the fact UimI tlwï.v aro mot: all aliike. Here are soinie atender darte i.uit neem to hokl by barbed taeuds ; there a row of fl'attened po'ds cliiUgUig' by tlieir Aviiol suriace ; "vvhile rtumiberless tiny b:rHm bua-s are gathered in groups roattered promiscouety about Ti-oosar legs and coab skirt. Il is stnanige hoiv an Interest is euddenfly awaktaned about tJie most commoJiptece Objects in lLie. We ■move lor years amoug1 oíd, familiar tilnngis without giviug theani a passing t.hought, whee all ait once some hiibtlie spell is cast aibout theaa, aaid tley become vested wit lx a chaj'niiiiig ijiteresi:. I have tramiJC-d mamy 'tilmes through autunin woods amd pivked off the '■stick&rs" with uo good wffil, buit to-d'ay tihiey fctrikie me as more tJian "stickers" I have dilscovened an old {riend aimong tli&m. Wiitliered and brówa, I sliO'iild s.-ancely ba-iie iecoguized the friend of my .-I. ingtime rambles but for a certa in odor of the roots and a Bp'rig of youing gi'eetn lea ves by the side oí the old, dry stalk. It a.U eenmes back now - sweet elcely of the sp:ing ■voods with it.s timbéis oí white blosËOnui a ml that sw'L'L't, Oiniselike fème'.l of its roots. - Appletons' Popular Scienoe Mouthly.