Juan Gathers Guavas Tagalog One day Juan's father sent him to get some ripe guavas, for a number of the neighbors had come in and he wanted to give them something to eat.
They become exceedingly fat in the season when the guavas are ripe; and when they eat the seeds of the Bois d'Inde they have an odor of nutmeg and cloves which is delightful (une odeur de muscade et de girofle qui fait plaisir).
The guavas were ripe, and Juan's father sent him to gather enough for the family and for the neighbors who came to visit them.
After a while Juan opened the door and when he saw his parents' swollen faces, he cried out, "What rich fine guavas those must have been!
Because guavas are very perishable, they cannot be shipped to northern markets, but various products are made from them and sent to every market.
Preserved and pickled guavas and confections made from what is known as guava paste are common, but guava jelly made from the pulp is probably the best known product.
Guavas come in two varieties: red guava, which resembles the apple, and white guava, which resembles the pear.
Piso and Marcgraf[1218] also found the two guavas wild in the plains of Brazil; but they remark that it spreads readily.
Acosta says that it grows in South America, adding that the Peruvian guavas have a white flesh superior to that of the red fruit.
Footnote 2: They believed that the souls of good men were conveyed to a pleasant valley, abounding in guavas and other delicious fruits.
Here guavas as large as oranges and as yellow as lemons ripened and fell unheeded.
Passing among bread-fruit and guavas into a palm grove of exquisite beauty, we came suddenly upon a lofty wooded cliff of hard basaltic rock, with ferns growing out of every crevice in its ragged but perpendicular sides.
With a view of consoling him, I reminded him that the guavas would spoil in twenty-four hours, and that his basket held more than we could possibly consume.
When he began to walk, he staggered like a drunken man, and at last fell down beneath his burden, and all the guavas rolled out on to the ground.
This is the scene chosen by me for my story Guavas the Tinner.
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