Geppetto, who had understood nothing of all that jumbled talk, except that the Marionette was hungry, felt sorry for him, and pulling three
pears out of his pocket, offered them to him, saying:
This might have stopped another man; but Bar, sticking to him fresh as ever, said, 'As to
pears, now?'
Van Mons, in his treatise on
pears and apples, shows how utterly he disbelieves that the several sorts, for instance a Ribston-pippin or Codlin-apple, could ever have proceeded from the seeds of the same tree.
Some of the trees bore yellow oranges and some russet
pears, so the hungry adventurers suddenly found themselves provided with plenty to eat and to drink.
There was a tree just behind which bore alligator
pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.
In July come gilliflowers of all varieties; musk-roses; the lime-tree in blossom; early
pears and plums in fruit; jennetings, codlins.
"Mas'r George is such a beautiful reader, now, I know he'll stay to read for us," said Aunt Chloe; "'
pears like 't will be so much more interestin'."
Horseshoes, swords, and the heads of halberds, or bills, are often found there ; one place is called the ``Danes' well,'' another the ``Battle flats.'' From a tradition that the weapon with which the Norwegian champion was slain, resembled a
pear, or, as others say, that the trough or boat in which the soldier floated under the bridge to strike the blow, had such a shape, the country people usually begin a great market, which is held at Stamford, with an entertainment called the Pear-pie feast, which after all may be a corruption of the Spear-pie feast.
LITTLE Benjamin said, "It spoils people's clothes to squeeze under a gate; the proper way to get in, is to climb down a
pear tree."
Pear grows on
pear, apple on apple, and fig on fig, and so also with the grapes, for there is an excellent vineyard: on the level ground of a part of this, the grapes are being made into raisins; in another part they are being gathered; some are being trodden in the wine tubs, others further on have shed their blossom and are beginning to show fruit, others again are just changing colour.
This young fellow's healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted
pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage.
Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge
pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.