There were camels unloading at one wharf, and piles of melons much bigger than the Gibraltar cannon-balls at another.
When fresh they are not better than elsewhere; but the melons are of admirable flavour, and so large, that Cinderella might almost be accommodated with a coach made of a big one, without any very great distension of its original proportions.
He silenced Saba easily, but as it was a harder matter to bid the elephant to be silent, he took with him a few melons to throw to him, and stuff his trunk at least for a time.
By Stas' orders, Kali and Mea, immediately after breakfast, began to gather melons and acacia pods as well as fresh leaves and all kinds of fodder, which they deposited upon the brink of the ravine.
Oxen and horses soon get accustomed to these wild melons and thrive on them, and human beings can make tea or coffee from their juice.
They hoe their gardens annually, though often all they can hope for is a supply of melons and pumpkins.
It is a good route for the poor but pampered tragedian to take, and water-melons grow close to the fence.
They have corn and beans and melons for food, which I believe never fail them.
There are native melons in this country so large that a person can carry only one of them.
They have much corn and beans and melons [squashes].
Here the colours glared more fiercely: the citrons, oranges and melons lay yellow and gold over the markets; and there were exotic fruits too, scarlet and vermilion.
Only a few fruit-sellers squatted beside their wares and uttered their cries, now that they saw strangers, offering sliced melons and coco-nut milk.
So he ordered the stick back into the chattee, and she returned him them forthwith--a whole roomful ofmelons full of diamonds, pearls, emeralds and rubies.
But she said, "I bought common melons from your wife, and made them all into common soup long ago; therefore talk no further nonsense about jewels, but go about your business.
Early next morning the Jackal thought to himself, "I'll just run down to the garden and see if there are no cucumbers or melons left.
Yet all this time she had a whole roomful of the emeralds, diamonds, rubies and pearls that she had found in the melons the Brahmin's wife had sold her.
One day the Jackal said to the Barber, "It would be a nice thing for us to have a garden of our own, in which we might grow as many cucumbers, pumpkins and melons as we like.
And beginning at the beginning, he related how they had sold almost all the melons without knowing their value; and how the few precious stones they had found had been taken from him by the jeweler.
I dare say inside all the melons we sold there were as good or better than these.
So she went out to look, and searching carefully amongst the thick leaves, found two or three withered little melons still remaining.
I will go at once to that woman, and try and make her give us back the melons she took.
There were so many melons, and all the melons were so full of precious stones, that the woman who bought them had enough to fill the whole of one room in her house with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls.
Assassin, a d--d Mussulman: and all my Brave Legions Destroyed by Water melons and the Arabs.
Melons were extensively grown; onions and cucumbers were probably known and the grape vine was extensively cultivated.
Beans, tomatoes, onions and melons are produced in large quantities.
I dare say, inside all the melons we sold there were as good or better than these.
And beginning at the beginning, he related how they had sold almost all the melons without knowing their value; and how the few precious stones they had found had been taken from him by the jeweller.
There were so many melons; and all the melons were so full of precious stones, that the woman who bought them had enough to fill the whole of one room in her house with diamonds, rubies, emeralds and pearls.
The market men said this was the first full load ofmelons ever on Detroit market; at all events, I know it was the first load of melons ever drawn from the town of Dearborn.
When they were ripe father borrowed the cart, picked a load of melons and (just before sundown) started for Detroit.
He tried, and it proved to be a success; the melons were excellent.
Father said they raised good melons on Long Island, where it was sandy soil, and he thought he could raise good ones there.
Father sold his melons to a Frenchman for one shilling apiece.
Last of all, squashes and melons might be looked for.
Cut the melonsin halves, Dolly, and chill them, but mind you don't put ice inside, to make them watery and horrid.
I'll write that down; and we can have lots of melons for dessert in the autumn, just as they are.
Suppose we havemelons first; "Little melons, halved.
Then melons come on, and you can make watermelon sweet pickles, and also citron preserves.
Late in the afternoon we come to a little clearing in the valley and see other signs of civilization and by sundown arrive at the Mormon town of Schunesburg; and here we meet the train, and feast on melons and grapes.
Mr. Asa treats us with great kindness to the extent of his ability; but Bishop Leithhead brings in his wagon two or three dozenmelons and many other little luxuries, and we are comfortable once more.
A Jackal sees melons on the other side of a river--Sees a Tortoise--"How are you and your family?
He ran about among the fields, and ate melons till he was nearly bursting.
Melons were dear that season, because the Jackal had eaten so many of them before they could be cut.
By-and-by the season of melons came to an end, and all that the Jackal had left were cut and sold in the market.
Say, Curly-locks, are all your melons as big as that?
Of course he is the culvert; but I'll bet he will wish he hadn't seen those melons when I get through with him.
And if the melons don't win a prize, we'll bring them back home, Mrs. Grinnell says.
Why didn't Hec knock when he came for my melons last night?
If you can sell all those twenty-one melons at twenty-five cents each, you can have half the money for your trouble.
Well, I would rather have melons than pumpkins, for we already have planted a lot of them.
And we thought we could get better melons if we came out here in the country to buy them," said the fourth member of the party.
Why, that book of natural history that Hector lent us after he got licked for stealing the melons tells about the way hunters train them to act in cirkises.
You can sell my melons in the city for me if you like and save me the trouble.
Then I don't see why you can't take my melons and sell them.
If only we hadn't sold Black Prince," she mourned, "we could just cart these melons into Martindale and make a whole lot on them.
I wonder if melons wouldn't sell better than peas.
Mike scratched his head thoughtfully and then replied, "I'll take a look at thim melons first.
I found that all the melons had been seen to, and the early grapes and pears.
You see the same thing in trees whose bark is cut, and in melons that have had only one summer's intimacy with squashes.
Near the tent was a bed of water-melons and a patch of Indian corn; but the good lady refused to sell any of these.
There must have been at least a dozen melons broken and no telling how many cracked.
He had just about completed his selection of all the ripemelons when Jim came tearing down the lane.
They had an exceptionally large patch that year, and melons were bringing high prices in Springdale.
We have delicious musk-melons now, also water-melons, but the latter are deteriorating, being out of season.
He was eventually taken, though, of course, Melons escaped.
Eventually, seated by my window, as before stated, Melons asserted himself.
Melons knew the exact height of every fence in the vicinity, its facilities for scaling, and the possibility of seizure on the other side.
This mandate, as a matter of course, invested Melons with a fascinating interest to them.
By the time I had finished this exordium Melons had disappeared, as I fully expected.
Melons to all practical purposes lost him forever.
Overcome by loneliness one day, Melons inveigled a blind harper into the court.
At about this time my opportunities of knowing Melons became more extended.
That from his infancy he was fond of indulging in melonsseemed on the whole the most likely, particularly as Fancy was not bred in McGinnis's Court.
Secure in his position, Melons redoubled his exertions and at last landed Tommy on the roof.
When we come to plant musk-melons we must keep them well away from the two above-named vegetables, or else their pollen will mix, producing very disagreeable hybrids.
Water-melons should be planted eight feet apart; but if one has not a warm, sandy soil, I do not advise their culture.
Each time two melons fell to our share, and were eaten with solemn and almost religious state.
The Chinese thereupon gave him some melons and peaches and sent him back.
The new melon, inferior in flavor at first, is being improved from season to season and bids fair to rival other melons in flavor.
The land for the melons should be laid off in about ten-foot checks; that is, the furrows should cross one another at right angles about every ten feet.
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