The birds never peck them; and I have read that even the leaves, falling into still water have killed the fish.

You will not eat anything here till you have shown it me, will you ?" said he, imploringly.
"No, no," said Helen; and sat down with her hand to her heart a minute.
"And I was so pleased when I found them," she said; "they reminded me of home.

I wonder whether these are poison, too ?" and she opened her apron wide, and showed him some long yellow pods, with red specks, something like a very large banana.
"Ah, that is a very different affair," said Hazel, delighted; "these are plantains, and the greatest find we have made yet.

The fruit is meat, the wood is thread, and the leaf is shelter and clothes.

The fruit is good raw, and better baked, as you shall see, and I believe this is the first time the dinner and the dish were both baked together." He cleared the now heated hearth, put the meat and fruit on it, then placed his great platter over it, and heaped fire round the platter, and light combustibles over it.