United States or British Indian Ocean Territory ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Through the long night, sitting by his pitch-knot fire in his cabin, Uncle Peter had sung the songs which lifted him in spirit almost up to heaven, whither his wife and children had gone, after cruel whippings and scourgings by their master.
"'When a growing branch," read Miss Harson, "'is broken off, the remaining portion becomes charged with resin, which is deposited by the resin-bearing sap of the tree, 'forming what is called a pitch-knot, extending sometimes to the heart.
Word Of The Day