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Updated: June 10, 2025
When the conversation touched on the birthstone for March, some one suggested that Mary ought to be made to do some stunt to show that she was worthy to wear a bloodstone, since it called for such high courage. "Make her kiss the Blarney stone!" cried Judith Ettrick. "At Blarney castle they let you down by the heels. That's the only way you can kiss the real stone.
Immense quantities of very beautiful spar lay upon the surface in all directions; some of this was perfectly white, and veined like an agate I believe it was white cornelian; other fragments, of sizes equalling sixty or seventy pounds weight, were beautifully green, suggesting the presence of copper. Large masses of exquisite bloodstone, the size of a man's head, were exceedingly numerous.
But I mean the other eye, m'sieu the one that is glaring at us now like a red bloodstone with the heart of a devil in it! I tell you he is a quarter wolf...." "And the broken paw. I suppose that was done by a club, too?" interrupted David. "It was broken like that when I traded for him a year ago, m'sieu. I have not maimed him. And ... yes, you may have the beast! May the saints preserve you!"
No Lieutenant, no Jimmy, and no birthstone ring, and no prospect of ever having any. But I don't care much. The candy is a success and Jack is going to have his bloodstone fob." With her arms piled full of boxes, she started down to her room. As she opened the door a burst of music came floating out from the gymnasium where the carol-singers were practising for the yearly service.
"Now what about being born in Mars' month!" she demanded triumphantly of Elise as soon as she could get her breath. "A bloodstone will do more for you any day than an agate." Taking this as a challenge, all sorts of feats were attempted to prove the superior virtues of each girl's birthstone charm, so that the performance ended in a gale of romping and laughter.
This portion of the desert was rich in agates and numerous specimens of bloodstone. Exactly opposite the village of Gozerajup are curious natural landmarks, four pyramidical hills of granite that can be seen for many miles' distance in this perfectly level country.
I could attend to the correspondence, too, for my head and hands are all right. I know I am as helpless as a baby yet, but if you'll just stand by me, and keep up that treatment, and help me get my strength back, I'll make good, some way or another, just as well as Aldebaran did. By the bloodstone on my watch-fob!" he added, laughingly. "How is that for a fine swear?"
Only once he paused to look back, when a white hand fluttered at a casement, and Vesta's sorrowful face shone down on him like a star. Then she, too, saw the bloodstone on his finger as he waved her a farewell, and she, too, knew by that token he would fail not in the keeping of his oath. 'Twas passing wonderful how soon Aldebaran began to taste the sweets of great achievement.
He always wore new green kid gloves why green? fastened at the wrists with a single hook and eye; and he never took off his kid gloves when he called, except on that particular New Year's Day when his aunt Charlotte gave him the bloodstone seal-ring, which, at first, was too big for his little finger, the only finger on which a seal-ring could be worn and had to be made temporarily smaller with a piece of string.
The next day Will procured a large block of red bloodstone, which abounds in that country, squared it off, carved the name of Turk upon it in large letters, and we placed it at the head of the grave. To us there had been no incongruity in the funeral ceremonials and burial. Turk had given us all that dog could give; we, for our part, gave him Christian sepulture. Our sorrow was sincere.
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