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Several small orchards of mango surround the village; the roads leading to and from it are merely well-worn cattle tracks, in the rains a perfect quagmire, and in the hot weather dusty, and confined between straggling hedges of aloe or prickly pear.

Below them dwarf-palm, aloe, cactus, and sweet broom made a dense undergrowth, and where the woodland opened suddenly the ground was aflame with flowers that recalled England as clearly as the cuckoo's note. Pimpernel, convolvulus, mignonette, marigold, and pansy were English enough, and in addition to these the ox-daisies of our meadows were almost as common here.

"In those places...." he said, "in those streets! ...I shall not see the flowering of the aloe I shall not see the living peace! 'As with dogs, each couched over his proper bone, so men were living then!" Thyme, watching him askance, pressed still closer to his side, as though to try and warm him back to every day. 'Oh! went her guttered thoughts.

At the same time, however, it may have given access of very restricted dimensions to the north and west of Aloe Godown, but the entrance which we always used was the gateway in Canning Street facing due west.

It seemed to us a healthy climate. In a little narrow pass is a rude tomb near the rough stone cabin of a sainted lady called Sheikha, where our soldiers and camel-men made their devotions. I had a very uncomfortable ride, for on the way we saw an aloe of a kind we had not seen before, and which proved to be new enough to obtain the name of Aloe Luntii.

For here was downright genius; the flowering aloe of the many years in formation; and Colney admitted the song to have a streak of genius; though he would pettishly and stupidly say, that our modern newspaper Press is able now to force genius for us twenty or so to the month, excluding Sundays-our short pauses for the incubation of it.

Report malicious, I feel sure reached me later, that, at the first note of it, an aloe in Sir Felix's gardens, a mile away a plant noted for blossoming once only in a hundred years-burst into profuse and instantaneous bloom. Sir Felix himself, who abounded all day in happy turns of speech, said the best thing of this band. He said it was sui generis. He was magnificent throughout.

The whole assembly burst into a rapturous cry. Even the common Arab attendants who were peeping in at the doors raised their melodious native cry, "Alloe, Fullah! Aloe, Fullah!" again and again. A shocked silence followed. Then the voice of Sir Midas Pyle was heard addressing Dr.

Up the gorge rode Hendrik; and no sooner had he arrived at its top, than he discovered the herd of elands seven old bulls about a mile off upon the upper plain. There was not cover enough to have sheltered a fox. The only growth near the spot where the elands were, consisted of straggling aloe plants, euphorbias, with some stunted bushes, and tufts of dry grass, characteristic of the desert.

"Either bamboo will greet his feet or hemp adorn his neck," persisted the other, with a significant movement of his hands in the proximity of his throat. "Walk backwards in the direction of that house, son of my son. Is there not one Ning of the worthy line of Lo, dwelling beneath the emblem of a Sprouting Aloe?"