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Updated: April 30, 2025
Best of all perhaps were the elms at the village end, those mighty rough-barked trees that had their tops "so close against the sky."
At that word I beheld a crooked old man, with a double head like to a rough-barked thorn tree, raising himself erect, and looking upon me worse than the black devil himself; and lo! without saying a word, he hurled a large human skull at my head many thanks to a tombstone which shielded me.
This is a sylvan idyll, telling of lofty trees, cool shades, and secret bowers of fern and vine and wild flower, in the moist and tangled redwood forests. There is little used but rough-barked tree trunks, but what delicate harmony of arrangement! This lumbermen's lodge is one building outside the Exposition palaces that should not be missed, even though almost hidden away against the south wall.
I have seen the flame azaleas at their bright hour of consummation in the hill country of central Georgia lakes of tranquil and splendid fire spreading far away through the rough-barked colonnades of the pineries.
Over the thick tiles of the somewhat sunken roof, the rough-barked old chestnuts lazily stretched their branches. Creepers and climbing roses wantoned over the front, framing the windows, peeping into the garrets, and clinging to the waterspouts, laden with large bunches of flowers which swayed gently in the air.
At present even this mild June sun is strong enough to make the old mulberry tree on the lawn appear grateful. It is an ancient, rough-barked tree, with wide branches, that droop downwards all round, and rest their terminal leaves on the sward; underneath it is a natural tent, or pavilion, with plenty of space to move about and sling a hammock in.
"He may have gone two miles and he may have gone ten. We'll have to trust to luck to catch up to him. I don't calkerlate he went far in this deep snow." Another mile was covered, and they came to a spot where the snow was kicked up in several directions. A rough-barked tree was near by, and on this it was plain to see that the elk had rubbed himself vigorously.
"The rescue of your wife and daughter is due to the resourceful and famous scout Solomon Binkus." "Dear old rough-barked hickory man!" the Colonel exclaimed. "I hope to see him soon." He went at once with his wife and daughter to rooms in the fort.
In some cases a species is known to frequent only one species of tree. Bates informed me, is found only on a rough-barked tree, called Tapiriba, on the Amazon. It is very abundant, but so exactly does it resemble the bark in colour and rugosity, and so closely does it cling to the branches, that until it moves it is absolutely invisible!
There lay the rough-barked giant exactly as I had left it, and once more I began to hack at the large branches; but my feeble strokes seemed to make little impression, and becoming tired in a very short time, I concluded that I was not yet equal to such work, and sat myself down to rest.
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