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After some previous conversation, in which Jack narrated all that had happened, "What may be your name?" inquired the farmer. "My name is Easy," replied Jack. "What, be you the son of Mr Easy, of Forest Hill?" "Yes." "Dang it, he be my landlord, and a right good landlord too why didn't you say so when you were up in the apple-tree? You might have picked the whole orchard and welcome."
The nightmare of the stone horse was increased by the white fog, which seemed thicker inside the wall than outside. They could make nothing of the enclosure upon which they were partial trespassers, except that the green and crooked branches of a big apple-tree came crawling at them out of the mist, like the tentacles of some green cuttlefish.
However, all is not yet lost, and, in the struggle for life, the loss is not so much felt." He got up, and crept towards the trap that led into the house, or out of it, as the occasion might require. "The vampyre! the vampyre!" shouted a man who stood on a garden wall, holding on by the arm of an apple-tree. "Varney, the vampyre!" shouted a second.
Almost before Dorothea was aware, he had doffed his paper cap and the General was introducing him. She recognised him at once. He was the young prisoner who had nailed the board against her brother's apple-tree. He bowed and began at once to apologise for the state of the room. He had expected no visitors before Wednesday. The General had played a surprise upon him.
On the summit grew a fig-tree, fully as large as a common English apple-tree; and from its branches again hung pendant a number of vines, both fig-tree and vines bearing a quantity of fruit; but the parent mora, from the undue exhaustion of its sap, was already giving signs of decay, and in a short time both fig-tree and vine, I saw, would inevitably follow its fate.
Dora had been peeping at them as they sat clustered about their mother in an attentive group under the apple-tree. She had now a good chance to examine each child, as they walked slowly back to the house, and as the last one disappeared, she said, softly sighing, "Oh, if I could sit only just once with them under the apple-tree!"
This salutation consists in "throwing some of the cider about the roots of the tree, placing bits of the toast on the branches," and then, "encircling one of the best bearing trees in the orchard, they drink the following toast three several times: "'Here's to thee, old apple-tree, Whence thou mayst bud, and whence thou mayst blow, And whence thou mayst bear apples enow! Hats-full! caps-full!
Though little and that commonplace was said as they walked, subtle womanly instinct prepared Rachel's mind for what was coming, and her grasp upon Harry's arm assumed a new feeling that hurried him on to the crisis. They stopped beneath the old apple-tree, at the crest of the hill, and in front of the house.
"Now, brother," the Little Fox said, "here we are in another country close to the king's garden where the Golden Apple-Tree grows. To reach it you will have to pass twenty-four watches of twelve guards each. Take care that you pass each guard as before when his eyes are wide open and staring straight at you for that means he is asleep.
I observed in this province, as in Mexico and in all the elevated lands of the torrid zone, that, where the apple-tree is most abundant, the culture of the pear-tree is attended with great difficulty. I have been assured, that near Caracas the excellent apples sold in the markets come from trees not grafted. There are no cherry-trees.
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