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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I know it's all fake, but just the same, it makes my little heart go pit-a-pat. I always want to think they're as lovely as they look." Hal's smile became reminiscent, and he quoted: "Oh Liza-Ann, come out with me, The moon is a-shinin' in the monkey-puzzle tree!" Then he stopped, with a laugh. "Don't wear your heart on your sleeve, Mr. Keating.
The laws which regulate the shape of a chalk down or an ivy tendril are just as severe as the laws which regulate the monkey-puzzle tree or the talc crystal. My own belief is that the trained artistic sense is probably only in its infancy, and that it will advance upon the line of the pleased apprehension of the existence of less obvious structure.
Then, unexpectedly, with a spirit which only moonlit campuses and privilege could beget, he chanted: "Old King Coal was a merry old soul, And a merry old soul was he; He made him a college, all full of knowledge Hurrah for you and me!" "What college is that?" asked the marshal. And Hal sang again: "Oh, Liza-Ann, come out with me, The moon is a-shinin' in the monkey-puzzle tree!
And old Quiller, the fisherman, removed his sou'wester from his snowy head and peered at the visitor from under his hand. "You don't know me, eh, Quiller?" Merefleet said. He was surprised to hear a high voice from the interior of the cottage break in on the old man's hesitating reply. "He's a sort of walking monkey-puzzle, I guess," said the voice, and a roguish laugh followed the words.
The snake, writhing afresh under the punishment, threw himself once more upon the impassive "monkey-puzzle" on four legs, but beyond tearing himself into an even more ghastly apparition than before, he accomplished nothing. Finally he broke away, and slid off, a rustling, half-guessed, fleeting vision, and there was fear at last in those awful eyes, that could never close, as he went.
A staircase of the dull Victorian kind led down to a dark, cool hall. The front door was open. She walked to it and stood under a stumpy portico, looking out. The view was much the same as that seen from the bathroom, only that instead of grass and flower-beds there was a gravel sweep, and, just opposite the front door, a circle of grass with a tall monkey-puzzle tree in the centre.
"Oh, Liza-Ann, come out with me, The moon is a-shinin' in the monkey-puzzle tree; Oh, Liza-Ann, I have began To sing you the song of Harrigan! "He keeps them a-roll, this merry old soul The wheels of industree; A-roll and a-roll, for his pipe and his bowl And his college facultee!
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