Before I left my bed in the morning, little Adele came running in to tell me that the great
horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away.
There is a nut abounding in the valley, called by the Typees 'armor', closely resembling our common
horse-chestnut. The shell is broken, and the contents extracted whole.
Staring up into the green gloom of the
horse-chestnut trees above him, he dreamed dreams of all sorts, and was just imagining himself tossing on the ocean in a voyage round the world, when the sound of voices brought him ashore in a flash.
She had just said to herself, with a sense of relief, "I guess I shall like him, though he looks as if he made people mind," when he lifted his eyes to examine the budding
horse-chestnut overhead, and saw the eager face peering down at him.