If You Jerk This Back, It Makes Him Run Faster On;
If You Pull It To One Side, He Allows The Nose And Head To Go,
But Keeps The Opposite Eye Directed To The Forbidden Spot,
And Goes In Spite Of You.
The only way he can be brought to a stand
is by a stroke with a wand across the nose.
When Sinbad ran in below
a climber stretched over the path so low that I could not stoop under it,
I was dragged off and came down on the crown of my head; and he never allowed
an opportunity of the kind to pass without trying to inflict a kick,
as if I neither had nor deserved his love.
A remarkable peculiarity in the forests of this country
is the absence of thorns: there are but two exceptions;
one a tree bearing a species of `nux vomica', and a small shrub very like
the plant of the sarsaparilla, bearing, in addition to its hooked thorns,
bunches of yellow berries. The thornlessness of the vegetation
is especially noticeable to those who have been in the south,
where there is so great a variety of thorn-bearing plants and trees.
We have thorns of every size and shape; thorns straight, thin and long,
short and thick, or hooked, and so strong as to be able to cut even leather
like a knife. Seed-vessels are scattered every where by these appendages.
One lies flat as a shilling with two thorns in its centre,
ready to run into the foot of any animal that treads upon it, and stick there
for days together.
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