This alarmed him somewhat, for whoever the great black hand belonged to was concealed by the thick bushes and their foliage from his view.

The contact with hard stone and lime and prickly bramble-bushes restored me a little to myself.

When he had stalked along through the currant bushes, he half turned his face; she was walking demurely behind him, and he made a pretext of picking a currant to give her a chance to come abreast.

And close along the water's edge there was a fine jungle of tropical luxuriance, composed of wild-rose and bramble bushes and a great variety of climbing vines, wreathing and interlacing the branches and trunks of willows and alders, and swinging across from summit to summit in heavy festoons.

The slopes are exceptionally steep and insecure to the foot, and they are covered with thorny bushes from five to ten feet high.

Seeing we could not get them to kill one of the lions, we bent our footsteps toward the village; in going round the end of the hill, however, I saw one of the beasts sitting on a piece of rock as before, but this time he had a little bush in front.

Sufficient supplies could never be brought through the dense, snow-encumbered bush, all the way from Canada, even if the long and harassing line of communications had not been everywhere open to American attack.

"Did you ever see a palm tree waving in New York; or daisy bushes as tall as a man; or such masses of roses and flowering vines?

The contact with hard stone and lime and prickly bramble-bushes restored me a little to myself.

Directly opposite to where the right branch enters, a small cold stream comes in among a cluster of alder bushes on the eastern shore.

The team was hurriedly driven in among the trees and low box-elder bushes, and there secreted.

It is now closely planted with beeches, none of great size, and extends to a tangled thicket of fieldpines and cedar and sassafras and blackberry bushes, which again masks a drop of some ten feet to the river.

In the thorn bushes of higher altitudes are grey finches that might have learnt their songs beside canary cages.

On our way to the entrance, which was between the reef and the shore, we had some difficulty, even with the boat, in finding a channel; but when we were within the heads, we found a regular depth of from ten to twelve feet, the banks on either side were, for two miles, impenetrably lined with mangrove bushes, which bore the marks of having been torn down by freshes or inundations.

How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made!

It was not safe to remain many moments where we were; in fact, I came near to believing the sergeant had lost his wits when he led us into the British nest, and we hurried out of the works, going directly toward St. Leger's quarters until we were sufficiently near to see men moving about excitedly, when he struck off for the rear of the encampment, where could be found such cover as stout bushes and small fir-trees would afford.

Suddenly, from somewhere not far distant among the gorse bushes, there came a sound.

In my simplicity I believed it, and it was not until I caught, the next season, a katydid while it was in the act of singing, that I discovered that the music among the hazel bushes was not made by the wild geese.

I had best conceal myself in these friendly bushes until I ascertain whether 'tis friend or foe.

Why, I've knowed 'em to hide behind a brown-bush, clump er cactus, or a rock, so mighty cunnin' thet ther ain't one scout in fifty would see 'em, let alone a stranger.

They found three, but were not enthusiastic about it, being content just to pluck, but they were delighted when they found specially long and beautiful grasses hidden deep under a leafy bush.

This forms a compact bush of moderate size, and is fairly hardy.

[Illustration: To the Place of Rest] CHAPTER VI ICE-BOUND Even in the last days of December rosebuds had been trying to open on the standard bushes in the sheltered rose-garden of the Palace.

From the land of the tzihuac bushes, from the land of the mezquite bushes, where was ancient Chicomoztoc, thence came all your rulers hither.

In the first instance they place ragged bushes all round the small pools, with the exception of a few spaces five or six feet wide, from which openings they stick in a double row of twigs, arching so as to meet overhead in the centre one or two feet from the ground; these little avenues lead away for several yards, and then terminate with a net thrown over a few light sticks at the end.