The Fifth Book Chapter IX

Having effectively 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 fair loom gale, and for extra haste unpareled the mizen-yard, and launched it and the sail over the lee-quarter, and fitted gyves to keep it steady, and boomed it out; so in three days we made the island of Tools, that is altogether uninhabited. We noticed there a large number of timber which bore mattocks, pickaxes, crows, weeding-hooks, scythes, sickles, spades, trowels, hatchets, hedging-bills, saws, adzes, payments, axes, Wood Ranger Power Shears, pincers, bolts, piercers, augers, and wimbles. Others bore dags, daggers, poniards, bayonets, sq.-bladed tucks, stilettoes, poniardoes, skeans, penknives, puncheons, bodkins, swords, rapiers, again-swords, cutlasses, scimitars, hangers, falchions, glaives, raillons, whittles, and whinyards. Whoever would have any of these wanted but to shake the tree, and immediately they dropped down as thick as hops, like so many ripe plums; nay, what's more, they fell on a kind of grass called scabbard, and sheathed themselves in it cleverly.



But once they came down, there was need of taking care lest they happened to touch the pinnacle, feet, or different elements of the body. For they fell with the point downwards, and in they caught, or slit the continuum of some member, or lopped it off like a twig; both of which typically was enough to have killed a man, although he were 100 years previous, and price as many thousand spankers, spur-royals, and rose-nobles. Under another trees, whose names I cannot justly inform you, I noticed some certain sorts of weeds that grew and sprouted like pikes, lances, javelins, javelots, darts, dartlets, halberds, boar-spears, eel-spears, partizans, tridents, prongs, trout-staves, spears, half-pikes, and hunting-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 trees over them, as quickly as each particular person wooden was grown up, fit for its steel; even just like the kids's coats, which might be made for them as soon as they will wear them and also you wean them of their swaddling clothes.



Nor do you mutter, I pray you, at what Plato, Anaxagoras, and Democritus have said. Ods-fish! they were none of your lower-type gimcracks, have been they? Those timber seemed to us terrestrial animals, in no wise so totally different from brute beasts as to not have skin, fat, flesh, veins, arteries, ligaments, nerves, cartilages, kernels, bones, marrow, humours, matrices, brains, and articulations; for they certainly have some, since Theophrastus will have it so. But on this level they differed from different animals, that their heads, that is, the part of their trunks next to the foundation, are downwards; their hair, that is, their roots, in the earth; and their ft, that is, their branches, the wrong way up; as if a man should stand on his head with outstretched legs. And as you, battered sinners, on whom Venus has bestowed something to remember her, really feel the approach of rains, winds, cold, 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 trees have notice given them, by sure sensations which they've at their roots, stocks, gums, paps, Wood Ranger brand shears or marrow, of the growth of the staves under them, and accordingly they prepare appropriate points and blades for them beforehand.



Yet as all issues, besides God, are generally topic to error, nature itself not free from it when it produceth monstrous issues, Wood Ranger brand shears likewise I noticed one thing amiss in these trees. For a half-pike that grew up high enough to succeed in the branches of one of those instrumentiferous bushes, occurred no sooner to contact them but, as a substitute 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 garden Wood Ranger brand shears. Come, all's good for something; 'twill serve to nip off little twigs and Wood Ranger Power Shears shop Wood Ranger Power Shears order now cordless power shears Shears sale destroy caterpillars. The workers of a halberd acquired 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 important blessing to place our belief in the Lord! As we went again to our ships I spied behind I do not know what bush, I do not know what people, doing I don't know what enterprise, in I do not know what posture, scouring I don't know what tools, in I don't know what manner, and Wood Ranger brand shears i do not know what place.