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With a very bad grace it hobbled off to the Durian tree, ascended it with a sort of lazy, lumbering facility, and hurled down some of the fruit without warning those below to look out. "My little frond is obstinate sometimes," remarked the naturalist, picking up the fruit, "but ven I bring my glasses to bear on him he always gives in, I never found zem fail.
Many of these moss-lined chambers contain thousands of these delightful ferns, clinging to mossy walls by the slightest hold, reaching out their delicate finger-fronds on dark, shining stalks, sensitive and tremulous, throbbing in unison with every movement and tone of the falling water, moving each division of the frond separately at times, as if fingering the music.
Nothing is to be neglected; "every plant, whatever it may be, great or little, rare or common, were it only a frond of moss, may have its interest."
Evidently they are believed to have some therapeutic virtue, but no statement could be obtained to substantiate this opinion. As is shown by Pls. CXLVIII and CXLIX, the tattoo of both Banawi men and women seems to spring from a different form than does the Bontoc tattoo. It appears to be a leaf, or a fern frond, but I know nothing of its origin or meaning.
The waving cocoanut trees of Senana, the principal island of the Soela-Bessir group, kiss the blue water with sombre plumes, bowed down by the wealth of heavy fruit lying in green and golden clusters between frond and stem.
"Hello, Jim!" said the sick man, in little more than a whisper. "Hello, Connie!" was the other's answer. He picked up a palmetto frond and fought away the flies. The uncleanness of the place turned his stomach. "What's up, Connie?" he asked, sitting calmly down beside the narrow bed. The sick man moved a hand, weakly, as though it were the yellow flapper of some wounded amphibian.
On either side of the trees that constituted the first arch of this dim vista of the swamp he planted ferns that grew waist-high thus early in the season, and so skilfully the work had been done that not a frond drooped because of the change. Opposite, he cleared a space and made a flower bed. He filled one end with every delicate, lacy vine and fern he could transplant successfully.
"Zat comes of too much horry!" he remarked, as he picked up his glasses and returned, humbly, to continue his dinner. "Mine frond, learn a lesson from a foolish man!" "I shall learn two lessons," said Nigel, laughing "first, to avoid your too eager haste, and, second, to copy, if I can, your admirable enthusiasm." "You are very goot. Some more cheekin' if you please. Zanks.
And now in the sunshine standing still, how beautiful! a thousand times more beautiful than the humming-bird. Listen, Rima, you are like all beautiful things in the wood flower, and bird, and butterfly, and green leaf, and frond, and little silky-haired monkey high up in the trees. When I look at you I see them all all and more, a thousand times, for I see Rima herself.
The tail wriggled for a few seconds, and the head gaped once or twice, as if in mild surprise at so sudden a finale. "Zat is strainch very strainch," slowly remarked the professor, as, still seated on the ground, he solemnly noted these facts. "Not so very strange, after all," said Van der Kemp; "I've seen the head of many a bigger snake cut off at one blow." "Mine frond, you mistake me.
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