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Hers was an effervescent spirit which could not be suppressed. She smiled upon Miss Watson as she replied, "The girls who go along to root will they be excused, too? You said the players will not have any lessons Friday afternoon. What about the girls that root?" Miss Watson looked her scorn of the question and questioner.
This makes them hard and strong. The chief food of these Indians is a kind of flour made from the root of a plant. They also eat fish. A great many fish are found in the rivers. These they catch and eat. They also dry fish and then smoke them over a fire. The smoked fish keep good a long time. These Indians sail on the rivers in canoes. But their canoes are heavy.
"Man may do all he can to protect his gardens, his orchards, his fields and forests, but if the birds did not help him the insects that work by night and day tapping at the root, boring inside the bark, piercing the very heart of the plant, chewing off the under side of leaves, nipping off the buds would make the earth bare and brown instead of green and blooming.
There was nothing to fear, though: he had only gone up to the root and when I came up with him he was evidently calculating about our escape, for he finished off by pulling out his telescope, and looking right across the plain, towards where there was a tank and a small station. "I think that ought to be our way, Smith," he said.
SHARP-POINTED DOCK. The root of this plant has long been used in medicine, and considered as useful in habitual costiveness, obstructions of the viscera, and in scorbutic and cutaneous maladies; in which case both external and internal applications have been made of it. A decoction of half or a whole drachm of the dry roots has been considered a dose. Lewis's Mat. Medica. ELYMUS arenarius.
I was too dazed to speak, and it seemed as if my feet had taken root on the eighteenth green, for I don't think I moved for several minutes. There is a little tale I want to tell about that Championship, illustrating the old saying that golf is a very funny game, and giving some point to a recommendation that I shall have to make later on.
Ralph brought in several specimens of fruit and vegetables, of the kind they had seen the natives use, and one specimen which had a long, tapering root. "Here is something they always had on hand," he remarked as he handed it to the Professor. "That would be a valuable addition to our vegetable diet.
But it fell to the ground before reaching which Paulus had indicated as the mark. "Wait!" cried Hermas. "Let me try now to hit the tree." His stone whistled through the air, but it did not even reach the mound, into which the palm-tree had struck root. Paulus shook his head disapprovingly, and in his, turn seized a flat stone; and now an eager contest began.
In a few cases he makes concession to etymology, by giving derivatives under their root, e.g. under ago come all the words derived from it: but he has regard to the weak, and places them also in their right alphabetical position. Not many derivations are given; but one of them is well known. Lucus is defined as 'locus amenus, vbi multae arbores sunt.
No man of his generation has quite such a grip on the vernacular: his speech rejoices to disport itself in root flavors; the only younger writer who equals him in this relish for reality of expression is Kipling.
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