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But the stolid tree a bloodwood, all bone, toughened by death, a few ruby crystals in sparse antra all that remained significant of past life afforded but meagre hospitality to the, soft lead. "Ah!" exclaimed one of my chums, "the old tree foreswears him! The Island refuses him!" But the homely back gate swings over the charred stump of the boorish tree burnt flush with the ground.
The magical use to which spittle may be put marks it out, like blood or nail-parings, as a suitable material basis for a covenant, since by exchanging their saliva the covenanting parties give each other a guarantee of good faith. If either of them afterwards foreswears himself, the other can punish his perfidy by a magical treatment of the purjurer's spittle which he has in his custody.
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