This happened to be my birthday, and Harding triumphantly produced a tiny plum pudding, frozen to the consistency of a cannon-ball, which he had brought all the way from England in honour of the occasion.
Anyhow, he got his man an' his axe, an' was plum ready ter start in when he sees David an' David sees him.
They had it plum saved in the bank, an' was goin' ter draw it Thursday, ter make sure.
Well, I was that plum puzzled that I meant ter find out why Streeter was takin' sech notice, if I hung fur it.
For a very early cherry-like Plumfor home use, the Berger is excellent.
It is usually grafted on plum stock, and one must take care to keep down the plum sprouts which sometimes spring from the root.
The marginal illustrations show how apple, pear and plum trees may be Pruned when received from the nursery.
The curculio, or the insect which is the parent of the worms in the fruit, is the inveterate enemy of the Plum and other stone fruits.
It is preferable to have Plum trees on stocks of the same species, but it is not always possible to secure them at the nurseries.
In the North the larger part of the Plum stocks are grown on the Myrobalan Plum roots.
At tea, in the castle, she often was not hungry and asked for food that was not good for her, roasted peacock, and almond cakes, and plum pudding.
The pear and plum trees, and the rose bushes in front of the parlor window were covered with white, with here and there an icicle for the fruit.
Then the oven was quite full of plum pudding, and the kitchen was very hot indeed with roasting beef; yet I can assure you that there was no want at all of either roast-beef orplum pudding at the sheep-shearing.
Here and there stood an apple or a plum tree; but for this nobody would have thought a garden had been there.
It was full of delicious things to eat, jam tarts, and little strawberry pies, thickly frosted cakes, and plum buns.
I am sure that I have the best food in the world," said the baker, "a frosted plum cake.
The garden Plum is occasionally found wild in England, but is certainly not indigenous.
As soon as the garden Plum was introduced, great attention seems to have been paid to it, and the gardeners of Shakespeare's time could probably show as good Plums as we can now.
Like a green Plum that hangs upon a tree, And falls, through wind, before the fall should be.
The mellow Plum doth fall, the green sticks fast, Or, being early pluck'd, is sour to taste.
In Devonshire and Dorsetshire it undergoes a further transformation, for there Raisins are called Figs, and a Plum pudding is called a Fig pudding.
I do not see why Amanda should be angry," and the little girl walked on, choosing her way carefully among the scrubby pine trees or patches of beach-plum bushes.
She pulled off her gingham sunbonnet and threw it behind a bunch of plum bushes.
The mutilated derby hat he now wore, a hat that had been weathered from plum colour to a poisonous green--a shred of peacock feather stuck in the band--lent his face no dignity whatever.
Washburn, while Harriet Prescott Spofford's Plum Island Sound is as sweet and musical as Tennyson's Brook.
When it is understood that Plum Island is little more than a naked sand-ridge, the benevolence of this wish can be readily appreciated.
Long and low, with dwarf trees crowned, Plum Island lies, like a whale aground, A stone's toss over the narrow sound.
Never tell us that you'll fail us, Where the purple beach-plum mellows On the bluffs so wild and gray.
May his memory be kept green, to use the words of Judge Sewall, "so long as Plum island keeps its post and a sturgeon leaps in Merrimac River.
The thorn-tree cast its evil fruit And blushed with plum and pear, And seeded grass and trodden root Grew sweet beneath their care.
Among the blessings which I would gratefully own is the fact that my lot has been cast in the beautiful valley of the Merrimac, within sight of Newbury steeples, Plum Island, and Crane Neck and Pipe Stave hills.
Leaving on our right hand Plum Island (so called on account of the rare plums which do grow upon it), we struck into the open sea, and soon came in sight of the Islands of Shoals.
Them gurls be mighty nigh ready ter drop, an' two o' the hosses hasplum giv' out.
Whar we are is plum in atween the two ov 'em, but it looks like it might be gud travelin'.
It's de mouth ob a little crick, whut yer nebber see till yer right plum at it.
Ah reckon if yer all held dat pistol plum 'gainst mah hed, Ah'd mos' likely find dis Amos Shrunk.
Insects as well as human beings have discriminating tastes, and the poor plum tree suffers even more than the peach from their attentions.
The prunes which we import from France are the dried fruit of varieties of the plum which contain a sufficient quantity of sugar to preserve the fruit from decay.
It means, dear, one that has grown without being cultivated, like our wild cherry andplum trees.
The most highly-valued cultivated plum trees came originally from the East, where they have been known from time immemorial.
Here are the cherry trees, so covered with blossoms that they look like masses of snow; and the smaller plum trees are also attired in white.
The cultivated plums, damsons and gages are varieties of the Prunus domestica, the cultivated plum tree.
To the east some four miles ran the Little Cedar River, and plumtrees and crab-apples and haws bloomed along its banks.
The chuckle of robins on the lawns, the songs of cat-birds in the plumtrees and the whistle of larks in the pasture appealed to them as parts of a familiar sweet and homely hymn.
Now, I plum forgot to ast you which way you was goin'.
Their way now led among raggedplum thickets, and occasional tangles of wild grapevines, or such smaller growths as clung close to the water among the larger, ragged cottonwoods that dotted the floor of the valley.
I never heard ofPlum Centre," said Franklin, with some amusement.
You see, old man Plum has got it figgered out that his town is right in the middle of the United States, ary way you measure it.
These usually travelled over the route of Sam, the stage-driver, who carried the mail to Plum Centre during its life, and who never failed to sound the praises of the Halfway House.
You see, this here place where we are now is just about a mile from the White Woman Sinks, and that is, as I was sayin', just about halfway between Ellisville and Plum Centre.
There'll be a regular travel from Ellis down to Plum Centre, and it's too long a trip to make between meals.
Then you got to take your hide up and rub it till it's plum soft.
Now I must be gittin' along again over towardPlum Centre.
Sam, the stage driver, was crossing on his regular buckboard trip from Ellisville to Plum Centre, and was now nearly half-way on his journey.
I didn't know but maybe you'd like to go south o' here, to Plum Centre.
The water was a-shakin' all over it but Jake he had went down plum out o' sight.
Following Harkness toward the plum thickets, where the roar of the fire was loudest, he heard a woman's scream.
As he rode toward it and passed through the strong gate into the fenced land, he wondered uneasily if anyplum gatherers were in the sand-plum thickets by the canon.
All about her, as the flames and the smoke lifted and fell under the force of the wind, flakes of soot, plum leaves, and burning grass, floated and flew.
Her small face was smeared with soot and tears, with charred plum leaves and with sand.
Every Christmas as far back as she could remember she had eaten her bit of plum pudding from a certain rare old blue plate, on which was the picture of Saint George, the dragon and the Princess.
Twigs of bayberry and wild beach plum made trees with which to border its avenues, and every dear delight of swing and arbor and garden pool beloved in Barbara's play- days, was reproduced in miniature until Georgina loved them, too.
The Major turns plum color, blows up his cheeks, and bugs his eyes out.
Just then I heard something that sounded like pouring water from a jug, and I looks around, to see Mr. Gordon turnin' plum color and holdin' himself by the short ribs.
Dan Phillips," he ejaculated, "have you plum gone out of your mind?
But, Hannah, did you ever in the world see anything so delightful as that little Tommy Smithson stuffing himself with plum cake, not to mention Teddy Grant?
The German noodle soup, the canned turkey, and the plum pudding to top off with was a very befitting dinner at sea.
Oh, yes," he replied, "I have had plum pudding boiling since yesterday.
Of course, one must not indulge too freely in plum pudding, especially when its specific gravity exceeds that of heavy metals.
The rising sun found us again on the march, and nothing remarkable occurred till evening, when we passed an old plum orchard of the Cherokees.
Similar plum orchards are found in many places near the Arkansas and Mississippi.
The trees are frequently attacked by a small moth, known as the Plum Fortrix, which eats its way into the fruit and causes it to fall.
They may be grown on their own roots by planting the stone, but a quicker way to obtain fruit is to bud them on to vigorous seedling plum trees.
No sooner were the little fat legs pushed down than up they came again, for Totty's eyes were too busy in staring at the large dishes to see where the plum pudding was for her to retain any consciousness of her legs.
