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Clara read slowly: "'One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe; and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad ." Jer. xxiv. 2. "But can figs be naughty, Miss Harson?" asked Edith, with very wide-open eyes. "I thought that only children were naughty,"
"A great many cocoanuts float here in ships," replied Miss Harson, "but they would not take root and grow, because the climate is not suited to them; it is too cold for them. We cannot have tropical fruit without tropical heat, and I am sure that none of us would want such a change as that.
This milk is said to be very fattening; and when exposed to the air, it thickens into a substance which the people call cheese." "Milk and cheese from a tree!" exclaimed Malcolm. "Do you think we'd like them as well as ours, Miss Harson?"
The children thought this a very pleasant invitation, and Miss Harson was quite willing to gratify them. The farmer led his guests into a very cheerful and wonderfully clean kitchen, where Mrs. Groves was busy with her baking, and the loaves of fresh bread looked very inviting.
Making the best of the situation, the pegs developed into the handsomest group of olive trees in the district." The children wondered if any trees had ever been planted in such a strange way before, and little Edith said thoughtfully, "But, Miss Harson, why don't good people go around and plant trees wherever there aren't any? It would be so nice!"
"Why, people can fairly live on trees," said Malcolm. "I didn't know that they were good for anything but shade except the trees that have fruit and nuts on 'em." "There is a great deal for us all to learn of the works of the Creator," replied Miss Harson, "and the blessing of trees is not half known.
"Here," said Miss Harson, "is a small branch from an oak tree containing the young leaves and the catkins, which come out together; for the oak belongs, like the willow and the maple, to the division of amentaceous plants." "Oh dear!" sighed Clara at the hard name. But Malcolm repeated: "Amentaceous ament. I know, Miss Harson: it's catkins"
"The old tree goes on to say," continued Miss Harson, "that 'Finland mothers form of the dried leaves soft, elastic beds for their children, and from me is prepared the mona, their sole medicine in all diseases. My buds in spring exhale a delicious fragrance after showers, and the bark, when burnt, seems to purify the air in confined dwellings.
"How much there is to remember about the willow!" said Clara, thoughtfully. "I wonder if all the trees will be so interesting?" "They are not all Bible trees," replied Miss Harson. "But the wise king of Israel found them interesting, for he 'spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall."
"Do they, Miss Harson?" asked Clara, not exactly seeing how this could be. "I don't believe they're very hot," remarked Malcolm, who was puzzled over the bread-fruit tree himself, but who laughed at his little sister's idea in a very knowing way. It was not an ill-natured laugh, though, and a glance from his governess always quieted him.
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