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Updated: May 26, 2025
There is mud and mud and mud in cans, in the gardens of the Mexicans and snow around the palms and palmettos Does the sun shine anywhere? Are people ever warm It is raw, ugly and muddy, the Mexicans are merely dirty and not picturesque. I am greatly disappointed.
The hotel itself, which has brought the Green Mountains with it, in every detail, from the dormer-windowed mansard-roof, and the white-painted, green-shuttered walls, to the neat, school-mistressly waitresses in the dining-room, has a clump of palmettos beside it, swaying and sighing in the tropic breeze, and you know that when it migrates back to the New England hill-country, at the end of the season, you shall find it with the palmettos still before its veranda, and equally at home, somewhere in the Vermont or New Hampshire July.
One day, while sitting in some thick woods, hoping that a bear would wander near him, Dick heard a loud tearing sound that seemed to come from the top of a little group of young palmettos.
Up the coast they hurried, past the squares and palmettos of Savannah, through the cotton-fields and through the weary night, to Millville, and came with the morning to the noise and bustle of Johnstown.
"Look over there on the hill see those two old locusts? They are fern palms and those scrub oaks are palmettos. The white frost makes the meadow a lagoon and this rock is the pier of my bridge where I came out to watch one night to test the force of a freshet. Over there the light from Mrs. Matilda's fires is the construction camp and beyond that hill is my bungalow.
He saw pine-forests, and swamps with alligators in them, and live oaks draped with trailing grey moss. The clumps of palmettos fascinated him he had seen pictures of such trees in the tropics, and would hardly have been astonished to see a herd of elephants in their shadows. He found a beach, snow-white and hard, upon which he walked for uncounted miles.
"The lad just stumbled a little and Lopez jabbed him in the back. I'll bet that fellow's too scared to dig much." "Look at the fellow," excitedly whispered Jack. "He's going right to the spot where we located the treasure. He's got the map in his head, all right. He knows just where to dig." "Gee," shivered Tom, "I'm mighty glad this clump of palmettos here is between us and them.
The narrow strip of land outside was only a few feet in height, covered with pines, oaks, and palmettos. As it was impossible to navigate the lagoon at night, we came to anchor. The next morning we continued our voyage. Looking over the side, we could see the fish swimming about in vast numbers.
By a last effort Canondah drew her burthen out of the palmettos, and then threw herself down by the side of her friend.
He surveyed his surroundings with anxiety. Great live-oaks, with their crooked limbs covered with the trailing Spanish moss; tall palmettos, and shorter young ones of the same type; gumbo-limbo trees, wild plum, and several wild orange trees, made up the immediate surroundings. "Oh! if we only had some idea which way he could have gone!" exclaimed Frank.
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