G. WILLIAM SKYRING.

Somerset House.

"Bullaces" are a small white or yellow plum, about the size of a cherry,

like very poor kind of greengage, which, in ordinary seasons, when I was

a boy, were the common display of the fruit-stalls at the corners of the

streets, so common and well known that I can only imagine MR. HALLIWELL

to have misdescribed them by a slip of the pen writing black for white.

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