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Updated: May 5, 2025
We the first person singular grows tiresome we might have now, on our acre, a tree planted by Joseph Jefferson had we thought in time to be provided with a sapling, growing, in a tub. Have your prospective souvenir tree already tubbed and waiting.
The winning-post was a sawed-off sapling, painted half-black and half-white; opposite to it was the judge's box, a huge log which made a natural grand-stand, capable of accommodating the racing committee as well. Behind, a rough wire fence enclosed a small space known as the saddling paddock.
And then she added, "I suppose you are deeply grateful that fate did not compel you to be saved by a woman." "Not at all. If the spruce had snapped, I would have caught at the end of your sapling like any drowning rat or man. Allow me to thank you." She had stepped down to the level strip of sand on which the colt was weakly struggling to rise to its feet. She was breathing quickly.
But the crotalus is one of the most sluggish of snakes; and, before it could get back within the log, the forked sapling descended upon its neck, and pinned it fast to the ground! Its body now writhed over the grass in helpless contortions a formidable creature to behold.
Altogether it was magnificent; one would not have recognised the place. He, stupefied, watched her trotting to and fro, twisting about and singing as she went. Was this then the lazybones who had such dreadful headaches at the least bit of work? But she laughed; at headwork, yes; but exertion with her hands and feet did her good, seemed to straighten her like a young sapling.
They could not but agree with him, and expressed a hope that an employment more suited to a person of his education might be found for him. Craven gave a sickly smile. "You are young, and think change is easy," he said. "The sapling is quickly bent, but when an old tree has long grown in the same direction, it cannot be straightened again.
The strong sapling which the barbarians brought from their German forests and planted in the heart of Europe, and which had silently grown in the darkest ages of barbarism, guarded by the hand of Providence, became a sturdy tree in the feudal ages, and bore fruit when the barons had wasted their strength in Asia.
It swayed horribly, but did not yield at once. Thereupon the two began to root beneath it with their horns, having often used this method to obtain fruits which were above their reach. The tree leaned far over. The giant straddled it as a moose straddles a poplar sapling, and bore it down irresistibly. Its top touched earth.
Thin as a cedar sapling, he preserved such an immovable attitude that in the haze of the creamy atmosphere he seemed a carved, marmoreal image rather than a young man with devouring eyes. The three visitors ate sandwiches and pretended to relish Munich beer served in tall stone mugs.
"Here it certainly was! Yes here this is the very sapling to which I fastened my bridle. See! here are their hoof-prints. By Heaven! the horses are gone!" I uttered this with a full conviction of its truth. There was no room left for doubt. There was the trampled earth where they had stood there the very tree to which we had tied them. I easily recognised it for it was the largest in the grove.
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