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Updated: May 20, 2025
One evening, as Richard, in displaying his collection, brought to view the blood-red leaf of a gum-tree, Asenath exclaimed "Ah, there is the sign! It is early, this year." "What sign?" he asked. "That the summer is over. We shall soon have frosty nights, and then nothing will be left for us except the asters and gentians and golden-rods." Was the time indeed so near?
The canoe or "mun" is a large sheet of bark cut from the gum-tree, carefully lowered to the ground, and then heated with fire until it becomes soft and pliable, and can be moulded into form, it is then supported by wooden props, to keep it in shape, until it becomes hard and set, which is in about twenty-four hours, though it is frequently used sooner.
"I shouldn't if I were you." "Shouldn't what?" inquired Marguerite. "Shouldn't put other people's affairs straight. It does not pay, especially if other people happen to be up a gum-tree make yourself all sticky, you know." Marguerite looked at him doubtfully. "Ah!" she said. "That's what is it?" "That's what," admitted Major White.
The natives having cleared the river of the fish that had been brought down by the floods, now subsisted for the most part on herbs and roots of various kinds, and on the caterpillar of the gum-tree moth, which they procured out of the ground with their switches, having a hook at the end.
The majority took this view of the case; and it was to add to their strength that Ruffin had been summoned! A feeling of terrible fear crept over me say rather a feeling of horror but it was only complete when the ring of men suddenly broke up, and I saw two of their number lay hold of a rope, and commence reeving it over the limb of a gum-tree that stood by the edge of the glade.
Poole, when he again resumed his journey, to change his course to west, in the hope that as he had passed the 30th parallel he should find Lake Torrens between himself and the ranges. Accordingly, on starting at 4 p.m. they went on that course, and halted at dawn on a swampy flat, under a gum-tree. Mr.
In the shade of the gum-tree sprawled half a dozen negro servants, but on the box of the coach, from which the restless horses had been taken, there yet sat the coachman, a mulatto of powerful build and a sullen countenance.
He wondered what she meant, and they sat on in the still darkening room. She moved again. "Will you presently take my cloak and new grey cloak from behind the door and go out with it. You will find a little grave at the foot of the tall gum-tree; the water drips off the long, pointed leaves; you must cover it up with that." She moved restlessly as though in pain.
I climbed to the summit of a hill about 800 feet from its base. The view was similar to yesterday's, except that I could now see these hills ran on west for twelve or fifteen miles, where the country was entirely covered with scrubs. Little gullies, with an odd, and stunted, gum-tree here and there, were seen.
The churchyard was a copse of gum-tree and poplar suckers, and berry bushes, with apple-trees and cedars and wild cherry-trees next above, and higher still the damp sycamores and maples, growing out of myrtle nearly knee-deep upon the waves of old graves.
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