CHERRY-PIT. by Robert Herrick JULIA and I did lately sit Playing for sport at cherry-pit : She threw ; I cast ; and, having thrown, I got the pit, and she the stone. Cherry-pit, a game in which cherry-stones were pitched into a small hole.

Velazquez: Toilette of Venus, National Gallery, London.

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