My new friends shrugged their dimpled shoulders and, argumentsbeing tedious, Chanel Bags at once squatted round me in the dappled shade of a big treeand produced their stores of never failing provisions. After a pleasantlittle meal taken thus in the open and with all the simplicity Martians delight in, we got to talking about those yellow canoes which were bobbingabout on the blue waters of the bay.
     　　"Would you like to see where they are grown?" asked an individualbasking by my side.
     　　"Grown!" I answered with incredulity. "Built, you mean. Never inmy life did I hear of growing boats.""But then, sir," observed the girl as Louis Vuitton Handbags On Sale she sucked the honey out of thestalk of an azure convolvulus flower and threw the remains at a butterflythat sailed across the sunshine, "you know so little! You have come fromafar, from some barbarous and barren district. Here we undoubtedlygrow our boats, and though we know the Thither folk and suchuncultivated races make their craft by cumbrous methods of flat planks,yet we prefer our own way, for one thing be- cause it saves trouble," andas she murmured that all- sufficient reason the gentle damsel noddedreflectively.
     　　But one of her companions, more lively mbt shoes clearance for the moment, tickled herwith a straw until she roused, and then said, "Let us take the stranger to the boat garden now. The cur- rent will drift us round the bay, and we cancome back when it turns. If we wait we shall have to row in bothdirections, or even walk," and again planetary slothfulness carried the day.
     　　So down to the beach we strolled and launched one of the golden-huedskiffs upon the pretty dancing wavelets just where they ran, lipped withjewelled spray, on the shore, and then only had ugg boots clearance I a chance to scrutinisetheir material. I patted that one we were upon inside and out. I notedwith a seaman's admiration its lightness, elasticity, and supreme sleekness,its marvellous buoyancy and fairy- like "lines," and after some minutes'
     　　consideration it sud- denly flashed across me that it was all of gourd rind.
     　　And as if to supply confirmation, the flat land we were ap- proaching onthe opposite side of the bay was covered by the characteristic verdure ofthese plants with a touch here and there of splendid yellow blossoms, butall of gigantic proportions.
     　　"Ay," said cheap Louis Vuitton bags a Martian damsel lying on the bottom, and taking andkissing my hand as she spoke, in the simple- hearted way of her people, "Isee you have guessed how we make our boats. Is it the same in yourdistant country?""No, my girl, and what's more, I am a bit uneasy as to what the fellowson the Carolina will say if they ever hear I went to sea in a hollowed-outpumpkin, and with a young lady--well, dressed as you are--for crew.