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Or you might, as I often did, gather the wild grapes from over your head, press them in your hands, catch the juice in the neck of a dried calabash, and toss off the blood-red wine. With my romantic notions, imbibed from my reading, I always called it the blood-red wine, though it was in reality a rather muddy looking gray-colored liquid with the musky flavor peculiar to wild grapes.
The tallest of these four men, neatly dressed in black, wearing a round hat and a white cravat, handed a paper to the jailer. This man was the executioner. The paper was a receipt for two women fit to be guillotined. The executioner took possession of these two of God's creatures; from that time he was answerable. To the frightful despair of Calabash had succeeded a helpless torpor.
Holes, a foot in diameter and a few inches deep, are made irregularly over the surface of the mound, and about eight or ten grains put into each: these are watered by hand and calabash, and kept growing till the rains set in, when a very early crop is secured. 13th October, 1866.
Deprived of the use of her hands, for under her black dress she wore a strait-jacket, she asked that her cap might be taken off, complaining of great heat in the head. Her gray hair fell disheveled upon her shoulders. Seated on the edge of the bed, her feet on the ground, she looked fixedly on her daughter, Calabash, who was separated from her by the width of the dungeon.
"I came back on account of my affair with the guard, and above all, on account of the children, because they were of an age to be ruined by bad example!" "What is that to you?" "To me? because I do not wish to see them become like Ambrose, Nicholas, and Calabash." "Not possible!"
There were cups and dishes, and bowls cut out of shells of the gourd or calabash; and there were spoons and ladles of the same material. There were wooden platters and trays carved and scooped out of the solid tree. And more numerous were the vessels of red pottery, of different shapes and for different uses.
I bared my arms to the shoulder, and, having imbibed a draught of aqua pura from the calabash of one of the spoorers, I grasped my trusty two-grooved rifle, and told my guide to go ahead.
A great chest stood at one end of the room, while on a shelf were a number of plates and dishes of English manufacture. The negro begged his guests to be seated, and presently a girl entered, bringing in a large calabash full of water for them to wash their hands and faces.
Now he had no sooner laid hand upon the calabash than that which he handled, and that which he saw and stood on, burst like a bubble and was gone; and night closed upon him, and the waters, and the meshes of the net; and he wallowed there like a fish. "A body would think there was something in this," said the missionary. "But if these tales are true, I wonder what about my tales!"
Only that." "Your medicine is not like mine," she said musingly; "but I have it in my mind now that the good white man used much fat in his medicine." She went into her hut, and returned presently with a calabash filled with fat and a square of wax. "And ye will build fast canoes?" "We will do great things, mother," said Compton, taking the things.
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