The Fifth Book Chapter IX

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Having properly ballasted the holds of our human vessels, we weighed anchor, hoised up sail, stowed the boats, set the land, and stood for the offing with a good loom gale, and for more haste unpareled the mizen-yard, and launched it and the sail over the lee-quarter, and Wood Ranger shears fitted gyves to keep it regular, and boomed it out; so in three days we made the island of Tools, that's altogether uninhabited. We noticed there a great number of bushes which bore mattocks, pickaxes, Wood Ranger shears crows, weeding-hooks, scythes, sickles, spades, trowels, hatchets, hedging-bills, saws, adzes, bills, axes, Wood Ranger Power Shears specs, pincers, bolts, piercers, augers, and wimbles. Others bore dags, daggers, poniards, bayonets, sq.-bladed tucks, stilettoes, ergonomic pruning device poniardoes, skeans, penknives, puncheons, bodkins, swords, rapiers, back-swords, cutlasses, scimitars, hangers, falchions, glaives, raillons, whittles, and whinyards. Whoever would have any of these needed but to shake the tree, and immediately they dropped down as thick as hops, Wood Ranger shears like so many ripe plums; nay, garden cutting tool what's more, they fell on a kind of grass called scabbard, and sheathed themselves in it cleverly.



But when they came down, there was need of taking care lest they happened to touch the top, feet, or other parts of the body. For they fell with the point downwards, and in they stuck, or slit the continuum of some member, or lopped it off like a twig; both of which generally was sufficient to have killed a man, Wood Ranger shears although he had been a hundred years old, and value as many thousand spankers, Wood Ranger shears spur-royals, and rose-nobles. Under another bushes, whose names I cannot justly inform you, I noticed some certain sorts of weeds that grew and Wood Ranger shears sprouted like pikes, lances, javelins, javelots, darts, dartlets, halberds, boar-spears, eel-spears, partizans, tridents, prongs, trout-staves, spears, half-pikes, and searching-staves. As they sprouted up and chanced to touch the tree, straight they met with their heads, points, and blades, each appropriate to its form, made ready for them by the bushes over them, as quickly as every particular person Wood Ranger shears was grown up, match for its steel; even like the children's coats, which are made for them as soon as they will put on them and you wean them of their swaddling clothes.



Nor do you mutter, I pray you, at what Plato, Anaxagoras, and Democritus have mentioned. Ods-fish! they have been none of your decrease-kind gimcracks, were they? Those trees seemed to us terrestrial animals, in no sensible so different from brute beasts as not to have pores and skin, fat, flesh, veins, arteries, ligaments, nerves, cartilages, kernels, bones, marrow, humours, matrices, brains, and articulations; for they definitely have some, since Theophrastus can have it so. But on this level they differed from other animals, that their heads, that's, the part of their trunks subsequent to the root, are downwards; their hair, that is, their roots, in the earth; and their ft, that is, their branches, the other way up; as if a man should stand on his head with outstretched legs. And as you, battered sinners, on whom Venus has bestowed one thing to remember her, really feel the strategy of rains, winds, chilly, and every change of weather, at your ischiatic legs and your omoplates, by way of the perpetual almanack which she has mounted there; so these timber have discover given them, by certain sensations which they have at their roots, stocks, gums, paps, or marrow, of the expansion of the staves beneath them, and accordingly they prepare suitable points and blades for them beforehand.



Yet as all issues, except God, are typically topic to error, nature itself not free from it when it produceth monstrous things, likewise I observed one thing amiss in these bushes. For a half-pike that grew up high enough to achieve the branches of one of those instrumentiferous bushes, happened no sooner to contact them but, as an alternative of being joined to an iron head, it impaled a stubbed broom on the fundament. Well, regardless of, 'twill serve to sweep the chimney. Thus a partizan met with a pair of backyard wood shears. Come, all's good for something; 'twill serve to nip off little twigs and destroy caterpillars. The staff of a halberd got the blade of a scythe, which made it appear like a hermaphrodite. Happy-be-fortunate, 'tis all a case; 'twill serve for some mower. Oh, 'tis an ideal blessing to put our belief within the Lord! As we went again to our ships I spied behind I don't know what bush, I don't know what people, doing I don't know what business, in I do not know what posture, scouring I do not know what tools, in I don't know what manner, and i don't know what place.

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