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Updated: May 25, 2025
Its wood is as soft as a green cabbage-stalk, and has been pronounced "utterly unserviceable." The hunters did not find it so. Amongst other implements brought from Graaf Reinet were two good axes, which their former experiences of a hunter's life had taught our young adventurers were indispensable on an expedition.
We do not sadly measure the cabbage-stalk by the corn-stalk, and praise the corn for getting ahead of the cabbage nor incite the cabbage to emulate the corn. We nourish both, to its best growth and are the richer.
'Your neck is as thin as a cabbage-stalk, and it might easily break and your head fall into the basket, and then who would buy anything? 'Don't you like thin necks? laughed the old woman. 'Then you sha'n't have any, but a head stuck close between your shoulders so that it may be quite sure not to fall off. 'Don't talk such nonsense to the child, said the mother at last.
The Princess Cabbage-Stalk felt very forlorn when she was gone, and began to think that it was quite time her father sent an army to rescue her. 'If I could but get up into the turret, she thought, 'to see if any one is coming. But to climb up there seemed impossible. Nevertheless she presently hit upon a plan.
She looks like this cloth, and since yesterday has refused to take the milk we daily procure for her at a heavy cost. Heaven knows what the end will be. Look at that cabbage-stalk. Half a stiver! and that miserable piece of bone! Once I should have thought it too poor for the dogs and now! The whole household must be satisfied with it.
And then he glanced at a curious round thing like an old apple, which lay near a long, leafless cabbage-stalk. It was, however, not an apple, but an old ball, which had lain for years in the gutter, and was soaked through with water. "Thank goodness, here comes one of my own class, with whom I can talk," said the ball, examining the gilded top. "I am made of morocco," she said.
There was a broad staircase rising in front of us to the first floor, and double doors just seen in the half-light at the head of the stairs. Old tubs stood against the walls, but the palms and aloes in them were dead only a cabbage-stalk or two and the rusty hoops lay on the ground about them. One tub had come to pieces entirely and was no more than a heap of staves on a pile of spilt earth.
Of dozing women-drunkards especially, you shall come upon such specimens there, in the morning sunlight, as you might seek out of doors in vain through London. Such stale vapid rejected cabbage-leaf and cabbage-stalk dress, such damaged-orange countenance, such squashed pulp of humanity, are open to the day nowhere else.
Now, Tallien came daily to the prison of the Carmelites, not to visit of course, but to see that the prisoners were properly restrained. A cabbage-stalk was thrown out of a cell-window, and Tallien found in the stalk a note from his ladylove to this effect: "I am to die in two days; to save me you must overthrow Robespierre." The next day there was trouble when the Convention met.
If this were not so, then the mere potentiality of growing, as in the case of plants and animals, would be all there is to distinguish the phenomenal manifestation of a Plato from that of a mole or a cabbage-stalk.
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