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His pea green visage assumed a more ghastly hue, and the expression of his eyes became absolutely blasting.
They were grim, and trusted, and under secret orders. They had a mission, did they but know it, as important as any in history. But they knew only that they were to guard Jerome and the general at all hazards. One peculiarly heavy stone, "the size of a pea"! How are we ever to calculate its value?
I saw rye, barley and oats growing wild by self-propagation in the mountain valleys of Colorado the present season; and also the wild pea, whose stunted seeds had the taste of the cultivated pea. Turnips, onions, tomatoes, and hops are found growing wild in the Pine River Valley, and the pie-plant or rhubarb is said to grow luxuriantly in the Elk Mountain valleys.
"We didn't look for any," answered Agnew, "But a few years ago, I picked this out of the river bed." He showed Curly a nugget as large as a pea. "Where the devil did you find that?" exclaimed Curly, eagerly. "I can show you on our map," replied Agnew. "I'll go fifty-fifty with you," proffered Curly. "Me to do all the work." "No, you won't," laughed Agnew.
These hastily laid batches of eggs, expelled perhaps by the exigencies of an ovary incapable of further delay, seem to me in serious danger; for the seed in which the grub must establish itself is as yet no more than a tender speck of green, without firmness and without any farinaceous tissue. No larva could possible find sufficient nourishment there, unless it waited for the pea to mature.
The pea family, or the group of papilionaceous plants, has pinnate leaves ordinarily, which, according to our premises, must be considered as a derivative type. In the clovers and their allies this type reverts halfway to the single form, producing only three leaflets on each stalk.
He took a look at a small and uncertain-minded glass which hung slanting forward over the chapped sideboard. The image it returned to him had the color of a very young pea somewhat overboiled.
"But then," said Ben, "what will you do for a hat-band?" "I'll manage to do without one," said Hal, and he took the string of his hat for his top. It soon was worn through, and he split his top by driving the pea too tightly into it.
The leadsman, in his pea jacket and shag trowsers, with the raindrop hanging to his nose, and a large knot in his cheek from a junk of tobacco therein stowed, with pale, wet visage, and whiskers sparkling with moisture, while his long black hair hung damp and lank over his fine forehead and the stand up cape of his coat, immediately presented himself at the door, with the lead in his claws, an octagonal shaped cone, like the weight of a window sash, about eighteen inches long, and two inches diameter at the bottom, tapering away nearly to a point at top, where it was flattened, and a hole pierced for the line to be fastened to.
Chester's reply was to produce his black pea, which he exhibited to the man. "Good!" said the stranger. "Follow me." "Follow you where?" Chester wanted to know. "Yes; what's all this funny business, anyhow?" demanded Hal. The man smiled enigmatically. "Best to be careful," he said. "Come on." Chester looked at Hal and the latter nodded. "Might as well see what it's all about," said the latter.
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