Crossword-Solution: CHERRYSTONES 12 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

One day, however, as he was coming out of a bag of cherrystones, where he had been pilfering as usual, the boy to whom it belonged chanced to see him.

Let Parliament abolish Churches and States and Thrones: With reverent hand I’ll polish Still, still my Cherrystones! A clod—a piece of orange-peel An end of a cigar— Once trod on by a Princely heel, How beautiful they are! Years since, I climb’d Saint Michael His Mount:—you’ll all go there Of course, and those who like’ll Sit in Saint Michael’s Chair: For there I saw, within a frame, The pen—O heavens! the pen— With which a Duke had sign’d his name, And other gentlemen.

They assert that the "cherrystones" are superior to our own Colchester natives in flavor: for reasons before stated, I cared not to contest the point.

Acorns and the nuts of yew-berries, and probably other hard seeds, are similarly treated by the Nuthatch; cherrystones, I suspect, are beyond his powers, yielding only to the massive beak of the Hawfinch.

Besides cherrystones, Hawfinches feed on hazel-nuts, hornbeam seeds, the kernels of the fruit of the hawthorn, seeds of various kinds, and, when they can get them, green peas, for the sake of which they often venture into gardens.