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The peach and the grape are the two most precious of the gifts of Providence, in the way of fruits. That night, most of the immigrants slept in the ship; nearly all of them, however, for the last time.
Not a very large peach, and scarcely yet yielding a blush to the sun, although its long summer heat is on the wane; growing high in the air at the end of a bough and clustered about by its shining leaves. But what beauty, purity, freshness! You must hunt to find it and climb to reach it; but when you get it, you get it all there is not a trace left for another. But Sylvia!
Eliza was still touchy when Trenholme ventured to peep into the kitchen. "I don't know how you dare show your face," she cried wrathfully. "The impidence of men nowadays! Just fancy you comin' an' openin' my door!" "But, chérie, what have I done?" he inquired, his brown eyes wide with astonishment. "I'm not your cherry, nor your peach, neither. Who put that clock in my room?"
The happy, supreme opportunity had come. They took the road over the river drawbridge into another county; the frost was out of the ground, and the loamy road invited the horses to their speed until the breath of spring raised in Marion's cheeks the color that dressed the budding peach orchards which spread over the whole landscape, as if Nature was in maternity and her rosy breasts were full of milk.
"That lays them out! They're dead men!" cried Richardson triumphantly. "Where did you learn to play ball, young one?" "It's no fair borrowing a professional," the Yale leader objected, trying to make a joke of his defeat. "Jove, but that was a pretty hit!" Dick said quietly to Walter. "A peach!" "You're all right son!" affirmed the Harvard catcher.
We've all been hunting for you. The baroness thought you were lost." "I thought I would walk in the wood," said the princess demurely. "It certainly seems to have done you good. You're looking brighter and fresher than you've looked since you've been down here." "The wood is real open air," said the princess. The Terror returned to Erebus and found her stretched at her ease, eating a peach.
And, feeling anxious about her, since she had not been able to finish her broth, the young priest with a smiling air tried to tempt her palate by offering to go and buy her a peach; but she refused it; she was suffering too much, she cared for nothing.
Three days after Billy's arrival, when he had thoroughly mastered all the details of Peach Orchard and knew personally all the cows, the horses, the white bulldog, the cats, the chickens, the little calves, and the reachable branches of every tree on the place, old Amos came in to speak to me.
Not that I wouldn't like to know how the Sam Hill the like of you ever got nabbed by the skypilots." "God called me through affliction, my son." "Oh," said my son, blankly. "Huh! But I bet you the best crib ever cracked you were some peach of a boy before you got that 'S.O.S." "I was, like the young, the thoughtless young, a sinner."
Apples make a very good marmalade when other fruits are scarce, and can be done at any time through the fall, or winter, pare the apples, cut them up, and put them to boil, with some water and green ginger scraped, and tied up in a bag, after they have boiled an hour, take out the ginger, and put in half a pound of sugar to one of fruit, let it cook an hour longer. Peach Marmalade.
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