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I would have with me a couple of big dogs, who would talk to me with their eyes, so full of dumb thought, and together we would wander over the uplands, seeking our dinner, after the old primitive fashion of the men who dreamt not of ten-course dinners and Savoy suppers. Then in the evening, with pipe in mouth, beside my log-wood fire, I would sit and think, until new knowledge came to me.
It seemed to be only of log-wood that hath kept the fire all this while in it. Going further I met my late Lord Mayor Bludworth, under whom the City was burned; but a very weak man he seems to be. By coach home in the evening, calling at Faythorne's buying three of my Lady Castlemaine's heads, printed this day, which indeed is, as to the head, I think a very fine picture, and like her.
Log-wood and cider, in iron, set with copperas, makes a good black. Rusty nails, or any rusty iron, boiled in vinegar, with a small bit of copperas, makes a good black, black ink-powder done in the same way answers the same purpose. When you merely want to corn meat, you have nothing to do but to rub in salt plentifully, and let it set in the cellar a day or two.
For a brief instant he held her in his arms and then he led her to the great armchair that was the Colonel's. "Lige," she said, are you sure that this is not a kindness?" "No, Jinny," he answered quickly, "but things were mighty close. I was afraid last night. The river was roarin'. They struck out straight across, but they drifted and drifted like log-wood.
December 1st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At home to dinner, and then abroad walking to the Old Swan, and in my way I did see a cellar in Tower Streete in a very fresh fire, the late great winds having blown it up. It seemed to be only of log-wood, that Hath kept the fire all this while in it.
"He has a proper claim to take his wife, Robert," said the farmer. "He's righted her before the world, and I thank him; and if he asks for her of me he must have her, and he shall." "All right, sir," replied Robert, "and I say too, shall, when I'm stiff as log-wood." "Oh! Robert, Robert!" Rhoda cried in great joy. "Do you mean that you step 'twixt me and my own?" said Mr. Fleming.
"He has a proper claim to take his wife, Robert," said the farmer. "He's righted her before the world, and I thank him; and if he asks for her of me he must have her, and he shall." "All right, sir," replied Robert, "and I say too, shall, when I'm stiff as log-wood." "Oh! Robert, Robert!" Rhoda cried in great joy. "Do you mean that you step 'twixt me and my own?" said Mr. Fleming.
But one thing they have here always beautiful, and that is the luxuriant tropical vegetation, beautiful blossoming trees and shrubs, and the multitude of flowers, tall palms, bamboo, ebony, log-wood, mangoes, oranges, lemons, bread fruit, custard apples, and forty or fifty varieties of bananas, from little ones, not much more than a mouthful, to them eighteen or twenty inches long.
Port is or used to be, for very little is now made, comparatively imitated in immense quantities at Oporto; and in the log-wood trade, the European wine-makers competed with the dyers. It is a London proverb, that if you want genuine port-wine, you have got to go to Oporto and make your own wine, and then ride on the barrel all the way home.
Ah, Michael and Joseph and John and you too, Leaf! a merry Christmas all! We shall have a rare log-wood fire directly, Reub, to reckon by the toughness of the job I had in cleaving 'em."
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