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There was one old lady who was the very Fairy Godmother of the stories. She was the one who had the magnificent mulberry-tree in her garden. One day in every year the children were called in to strip the tree of its fruit; and that was a great day for Wistaria Terrace.
"Let us now persuade him to climb the largest of these mulberry-trees, and whilst he is climbing we will steal his slippers." And when the Khoja drew near, they cried, "O Khoja, here is indeed a tree which it is not possible to climb." The Khoja looked at the mulberry-tree and said, "You are in error, my children, any one of you could climb that tree." But they said, "We cannot."
Till the reign of Justinian, the silk-worm who feed on the leaves of the white mulberry-tree were confined to China; those of the pine, the oak, and the ash, were common in the forests both of Asia and Europe; but as their education is more difficult, and their produce more uncertain, they were generally neglected, except in the little island of Ceos, near the coast of Attica.
The heavy boughs of the mulberry-tree across the road drooped over the wall and offered their last ripe fruits to whomsoever would pick them. On the other side of the wall the rich merchant Hans he who married the nurse-maid was pottering about his garden. He never came out, and the rumor ran that he was held a prisoner by his wife and her kin.
Buffett said grace in an emphatic manner; and so strict were they in this respect, that it was not deemed proper to touch a morsel of bread without saying grace both before and after it. The officers slept in the house all night, their bedclothing and sheets consisting of the native cloth made of the native mulberry-tree.
Thereupon he kicked off his slippers as the children had anticipated; and tucking his skirts into his girdle, he prepared to climb. But whilst they were waiting to steal his slippers, the Khoja put them into his pocket. "Effendi Khoja," said the children, "wherefore do you not leave your slippers on the ground? What will you do with slippers up in the mulberry-tree?"
Pontesordo being a part of the ducal domain, they had led in their old days an easier life than their neighbours; but the new taxes had stripped them as bare as a mulberry-tree in June.
Plain Stories. How far my pen has been fatigued, like those of other travellers, in this journey of it, over so barren a track the world must judge but the traces of it, which are now all set o' vibrating together this moment, tell me 'tis the most fruitful and busy period of my life; for as I had made no convention with my man with the gun, as to time by stopping and talking to every soul I met, who was not in a full trot joining all parties before me waiting for every soul behind hailing all those who were coming through cross-roads arresting all kinds of beggars, pilgrims, fiddlers, friars not passing by a woman in a mulberry-tree without commending her legs, and tempting her into conversation with a pinch of snuff In short, by seizing every handle, of what size or shape soever, which chance held out to me in this journey I turned my plain into a city I was always in company, and with great variety too; and as my mule loved society as much as myself, and had some proposals always on his part to offer to every beast he met I am confident we could have passed through Pall-Mall, or St.
"And what are these same purposes?" asked Humfrey, as, having fulfilled his commission, the two young men strolled out into the garden and threw themselves on the grass, close to a large mulberry-tree, whose luscious fruit dropped round, and hung within easy reach.
Although the finest mulberry-trees are said to be found along the Mississippi and the lower Ohio Rivers, I have seen large, thrifty trees in Connecticut and on Long Island. They grow from Massachusetts to Florida and west to Nebraska. Birds are very fond of the mulberry. The first rose-breasted grosbeaks I ever saw were in a great mulberry-tree on a farm in the northern part of Connecticut.
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