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"My good sir, don't you see, that all this stuff about Brobdingnag raspberries is to ward off your suit about the plum-tree? They know that is, Mr. Grant, who is sharp enough, knows that he will be worsted in that suit; that he must, in short, pay you a good round sum for damages, if it goes on " "Damages!" said Oakly, staring round him at the plum-tree; "but I don't know what you mean.
The result is that our rejoicing partakes of the incongruity of humor. The new year exists only in name. In the Far East, on the other band, the calendar is made to fit the time. Men begin to reckon their year some three weeks later than the Western world, just as the plum-tree opens its pink white petals, as it were, in rosy reflection of the snow that lies yet upon the ground.
In Italy, an olive branch which has been blessed keeps the witch from the dwelling, and in some parts of the Continent the plum-tree is used. Kolb, writes Mr.
If at any time we failed in finding a drove, we had only to pay a visit to the plum-tree before mentioned, where we always found a large family of them asleep under its branches. We employed ourselves very busily during this time in making various garments of cocoa-nut cloth, as those with which we had landed were beginning to be very ragged.
'Take it, Peasie, take it! crackled the fire; 'I have cooked it to a turn, in reward for your kindness. So lucky Peasie took the nice hot cake, and, dividing it into two pieces, put one aside for her sister, and ate the other while she went on her way. Now when she reached the plum-tree, the topmost branches were bending down, covered with ripe yellow fruit.
The plum-tree of whose emblematic meaning I said something in a former paper about Japanese gardens is not invariably used, however; sometimes sakaki, the sacred plant of Shinto, is substituted for it; and sometimes only pine and bamboo form the kadomatsu.
"Do you think she will?" she said merrily. "Then I'll stop a minute, and if she scolds me I'll put the blame on you!" Briggs played with his silver tassels and, leaning gracefully against a plum-tree, surveyed her with a critical eye. "I was not able," he observed, "to see much of you in town.
She would spend the day prowling round the garden, eating, watching, laughing, picking at the grapes on the vines like a thrush, secretly plucking a peach from the trellis, climbing a plum-tree, or giving it a little surreptitious shake as she passed to bring down a rain of the golden mirabelles which melt in the mouth like scented honey.
It was not so easy to perch on a plum-tree as you might think, because the rainbow wings were so very large; but somehow they all managed to do it, and the plums were certainly very sweet and juicy.
It is a young pine, or part of a pine, conjoined with plum branches and bamboo cuttings. Pine, plum, and bamboo are growths of emblematic significance. Anciently the pine alone was used; but from the era of O-ei, the bamboo was added; and within more recent times the plum-tree. The pine has many meanings.
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