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Updated: May 1, 2025
"That poor Maitre Ranulph," said Dormy, "once he was lively as a basket of mice; but now " "Well, now, achocre?" she said irritably, stamping her foot. "Now the cat's out of the bag oui-gia!" "You're as cunning as a Norman you've got things in your noddee!" she cried with angry impatience. He nodded, grinning. "As thick as haws," he answered.
The fruit of wild cherry, elder, dogwood, haws, and mountain-ash are eaten by birds, and if a farm be planted with such trees and bushes in the barn-yard, along the lanes or in some of those unproductive spots that are to be found on every farm, birds will be attracted to the farm and will pay well for themselves, and the farmer's crop of cultivated fruit will be protected.
"I had not the least idea that you would try to ride away out here in this fearful storm." "Did I not say that I would come?" asked John Haws, abruptly. "O, yes; but I did not regard it as a promise so binding that you must fulfil it on a day like this!" "Any promise that I make is binding, regardless of wind and weather. I said that I would pay the money today, and I am here to keep my word."
It seemed improbable, too, that the solicitor would connive at keeping his friends at The Haws ignorant of what had befallen them, and with every day that passed Will felt more disposed to hide that catastrophe, if by any means that were possible.
They hoarded nuts and acorns, and hips and haws, and then they wasted them; and they hoarded other things merely from the greed of getting, and with no possible expectation of advantage. It might be well enough to catch bees in hollyhocks, and imprison them in underground cells with flowers for them to make honey from; but why accumulate fire-flies and even dor-bugs in small brick pens?
"'When I die, he says to me, 'if I go to the bad place I may start in reformin' that. It don't need it no more'n South Orham does, but 'twill be enough sight easier job. "And," concluded Captain Stitt, as soon as he could be heard above the "Haw! haws!" caused by the Honorable Holway's final summing-up of his native town, "I ain't so sure that he was greatly mistook. What do you think, Sol?"
"But, then, it is only a small sum, and I do not really need it." "I need to keep my word. If the sum had been but ten cents, and you were a millionaire, and I had said that I could pay it today, I would be here to pay it if I had been compelled to ride fifty miles." Do you wonder that it was often said of John Haws that his word was as good as his bond? He was as truthful as he was honest.
I should have my Grecian urn, but I should have lost the magic of the living world. By the time I had reached the gate I had buried my regrets for the vanished hawthorn. I knew that to-morrow I should find new miracles in the hedgerows the wild rose and the honeysuckle, and after them the blackberries, and after these again the bright-hued hips and haws.
A tree in flower brought the pleasant fragrance of hawthorn hedges back to memory; its leaves, flowers, perfumes, and fruit resembled those of the hawthorn, only the flowers were as large as dog-roses, and the "haws" like boys' marbles. Here the flowers smell sweetly, while few in the south emit any scent at all, or only a nauseous odor.
The kanary-nut may be considered equal to a hazel-nut, but I have met with nothing else superior to our crabs, oar haws, beech-nuts, wild plums, and acorns; fruits which would be highly esteemed by the natives of these islands, and would form an important part of their sustenance.
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