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"This is good soup," said Gesnip. "I am glad I worked hard before the water came up. But, Payuchi, didn't you and Nopal get any clams?" "Yes," said her brother, making a face; he had dipped down where the stones were hottest and the soup thickest, and had taken a mouthful that burned him.
Payuchi shivered and drew a long breath. "We must get away now; Nihie will be back soon to get the offerings," said Nopal. "But first we must offer our gifts, or Chinigchinich will be angry," said Payuchi.
The orange trees were almost breaking down under their load of fruit, which scarcely paid for the gathering. The "nopal" or prickly pears have been rooted up, as well as most of the vines and figs. A few young nopals have been planted, and some preparation made for experiments in cochineal.
"Yes, we got some clams, more than I could carry; but Nopal was running races with the other boys and would not come, so I left him to bring them. He will lose his fish dinner if he doesn't hurry." "Mother," said Cleeta, "may we stay up to the fish bake?" "No," answered her mother. "You and Nakin must go to bed, but I will save some for your breakfast. You are tired, Cleeta."
Others rise vertically to a great height, like carved and fluted columns. Some throw out branches, crooked, shaggy branches, with hirsute oval leaves. Yet there is a homogeneousness about all these vegetable forms, in their colour, in their fruit and flowers, that proclaims them of one family. They are cacti. It is a forest of the Mexican nopal. Another singular plant is here.
Payuchi, who tumbled to sleep as soon as his head touched his sleeping mat, was wakened by some one pulling his rabbit-skin coat, which he wore nights as well as days. "Payuchi," said a voice, "wake up." "I have not been asleep," answered the boy, stoutly, as he rubbed his eyes to get them open. "What do you want, Nopal?" for he saw his brother speaking to him.
Across the bottom she outlined a bit of Sunland Desert she well remembered, in the foreground a bed of flat-leaved nopal, flowering red and yellow, the dark red prickly pears, edible, being a near relative of the fruits she had used in her salad.
There are a few bushes growing outside the walls, and there we found the Nopal bush, the great prickly pear the same that has established itself all round the shores of the Mediterranean growing in crevices of rocks, and cracks in lava-beds, and barren places where nothing else will live.
"No," said Spendius, "take me to the temple of Tanith." Matho wished to speak. "Remember!" said the former slave, and raising his arm he showed him the glittering planet of Chabar. Then Matho turned in silence towards the Acropolis. They crept along the nopal hedges which bordered the paths. The water trickled from their limbs upon the dust.
Gesnip struggled on, bending under the weight and size of her awkward burden until, with a sigh of relief, she seated herself on a stone to rest while Payuchi, throwing his bundle on the ground, stood up to watch the boys. "See, Nopal is It," he said. Nopal, coming forward, stooped low and rolled a hoop along the ground, which the boys had pounded smooth and hard for the game.
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