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Fourth of July dawned hot and sunny on Apple Tree Island. Captain Jenks came over in his motor-boat and brought a huge chunk of ice for the freezing of the ice-cream.
"Suppose we let them fire two or three shots first," said Henry. "Then, as we make no reply, they may bring the cannon up closer." Again four heads nodded in approval, and Henry, creeping forward through the bushes, climbed rapidly up the tree. Here, hidden as if by walls, he nevertheless saw well. The gunners, helped by the Indians, were bringing forward both of the cannon.
She removed the ax from the pack and chopped a way through the slender undergrowth which had grown up that season. "Yes, here's the blaze as plain as day! Any of you girls want to read it for me?" laughed Polly. The three curious girls jumped from their mounts and pushed a way over to the tree where they saw a queer mark made deep in the tree where the bark could not over-grow it.
To give another illustration , it appears that in Beerbhoom once a year the whole capital repairs to a shrine in the jungle, and makes simple offerings to a ghost who dwells in the Bela tree. The shrine consists of three trees a Bela tree on the left, in which the ghost resides, and which is marked at the foot with blood; in the middle is a Kachmula tree, and on the right a Saura tree.
If you are lost in the jungle and there is no way out, and everything is black except the stars above, you dare not stay very long anywhere. The only thing to do then is to give the master call and at once the elephant pulls down the tree in front of him with his trunk. This frightens all the animals away.
"I am not tired till I have done, Fairy. And besides, cheese is workingman's fare, you know, isn't it?" "No," said Fleda gravely, "I don't think it is." "What then?" said Mr. Carleton, stopping as he was about to spring into the tree, and looking at her with a face of comical amusement. "It isn't what our men live on," said Fleda, demurely eying the fallen nuts, with a head full of business.
"Well," replied Sam, "I'll show you. Just before sunset yesterday I wanted to mark my map, and I sat down right here," pointing to a spot near the first stake, "because it was shady here. The trunk of that big tree threw its shadow here. Now the sun does not set exactly in the west in this latitude, but a little south of west at this time of year.
We had our first supper on a wide puncheon under the persimmon tree on the few pewter plates we had fetched across the mountain, the blue smoke from our own hearth rising in the valley until the cold night air spread it out in a line above us, while the horses grazed at the river's edge.
Under the big pine tree, where the ground was the levelest of any place in the yard, Alice had them spread out all their burrs. "Now," she said when the burrs were ready, "you make them stick together so. Make eight rows of six burrs each. That will be the floor of the house. Then start up the sides for walls." Frances and Mary Jane got the idea in a minute and they set to work in a jiffy.
In a remote and lonely spot he cut the bark in the form of the cross from the trunk of a great tree; and here he made his prayers.
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